Anand-ji, I have similar memories of this flower being a part of our childhood. Back in the early '60s, my mother trained this creeper - her favourite - on to a gate and it used to grow wild. It is a low-maintenance plant and saplings come up every year on its own even in my harsh terrace garden. In Bengali it is called Taru-lata (creeper). And yes, like all good things, the pretty flowers are short-lived! Regards, Sushmita
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Anand Kumar Bhatt <[email protected]>wrote: > This has my childhood memories. At our house in Ghazipur it used to grow > wild. It got germinated from the wall corners and a cement cover on a > staircase which was for some reasons left incomplete. It used to be there > during the rains and after that due to lack of moisture, it died out. The > flower has a short life. By evening it withers. As the photograph shows it > is bright red and when it blooms it is very attractive. The foliage is > lovely, dark green and fern like. We used it for decoration during > Janmashtami. I remember one Bengali classmate of mine at Allahabad used to > go to a nearby village to get lotus flowers for the Janmashtami Puja. > Those were the days! > akbhatt > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Devendra Bhardwaj < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Sureshji >> Regard >> Devendra >> >> --- On *Wed, 17/6/09, Suresh C. Sharma <[email protected]>* wrote: >> >> >> From: Suresh C. Sharma <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:13267] Ipomoea quamocilt >> To: "Devendra Bhardwaj" <[email protected]> >> Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 6:36 AM >> >> Lovely flower, Devendraji, >> Thanks, >> Suresh >> >> >> On 6/16/09, Devendra Bhardwaj >> <[email protected]<http://in.mc941.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Plant from smriti van Jaipur >>> >>> Ipomoea quamocilt >>> >>> Photo Taken on-29.8.2007 >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Explore your hobbies and interests. >> Click here to begin. >> ------------------------------ >> Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter now! >> >> <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_groups_6/*http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/> > > > > > -- > Anand Kumar Bhatt > A-59, B.S.F.Colony, Airport Road > Gwalior. 474 005. > Tele: 0751-247 2233. Mobile 0 94253 09780. > My blogsite is at: > http://anandkbhatt.blogspot.com > And the photo site: > www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
