Cherry Trees and Walkway, Japan

This picture was taken in Iwakuni, Japan at the Kintai Bridge. The Cherry Blossom (Sakura) festival had just ended and that is when I decid...

Festival of Colors

Clouds of neon-colored powder enveloped villages across northern India last week as the spring  Holi Festival  began, coating people in a...

Fire-wheel tree

The firewheel tree takes its name from the configuration and color of the inflorescences in which the small flowers have a wheel-like arra...

Angelonia, Summer Snapdragon (Angelonia angustifolia)

Summer snapdragon is native to Mexico, Guatemala and Cuba. It is widely cultivated and naturalized in neotropics, native range obscure. ...

Angel wing Begonia (Begonia coccinea)

Begonia coccinea  is a species begonia native to Brazil. Plant has thick, leathery, solid bright-green leaves with a soft sheen and bright ...

Picture of flowers of the African Violet

Saintpaulia , commonly known as African violet , is a genus of 6 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriacea...

Africa daisy

Africa daisy  grows to about a foot high, with coarse aromatic leaves, topped in summer by large daisies in shades of yellow, orange, salmo...