Summers in the country are mostly about the shortage of water and electricity and the abundance of mosquitoes. But there is one thing about the season in Delhi that makes it worth all the trouble. The Labernum trees, also called the Golden Chain flowers. Just before the summer season the tree sheds all its leaves and has just bare branches and big dark brown drumstick like seed pods. These pods clang against each other in the wind making an eerie woody sound. Inspiration behind wind chimes?? If you see it at night, you would think it’s haunted.
As summer arrives new leaves sprout almost overnight and eventually the tree gets covered in bright yellow flower bunches. It’s almost as if the sun lives in there. What keeps me from keeping these flowers in my house is that all parts of this plant are poisonous.
It reminds me somewhat of the joys in life; they come only once in a while, don’t stay on for very long, but sure delight and brighten lives as long as they last.
Really sorry for the bad picture! I'll post better ones in the next flowering season.
3 comments:
Can you add some more photos?
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Your blog is very creative, when people read this it widens our imaginations.
i miss them ..i loved looking at them since not seen any here in Bangalore
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