Tree Love-Part 1

The Bombax  (silk cotton) trees have large, fleshy red/orange flowers. If you park your car under one, it will be smeared with gooey flower pulp – which I think makes my car look like a wedding carriage. My neighbor finds it very annoying and grumbles about Spring and it’s sticky flower menace.

I love Spring. Delhi has more than 100 varieties of indigenous trees and a lot of them flower during Spring. The pink version of Bombax – the Silk Floss trees, remind one of Cherry Blossom. Unlike Cherry Blossom,  one doesn’t have to wait for many years for Silk Floss to blossom – they do so, every year, in March, in Delhi.

Jacaranda is an indigenous tree which has glossy green leaves, which remain during the flowering season. So do the leaves of the Yellow Trumpetbush.

One of my nature lover friends, pointed out that we are getting “tree blind”. So we don’t notice trees and don’t miss them when they are cut. This #EarthHour2016, let’s start a new habit. Let’s see trees. Watch them bloom, flower. Love them and not let them be killed by blind people.