It is that time in the city again!! Yes, we get to see in these times Feb-March, I see a range of pink flowers blossoming in trees in almost every street of Bengaluru. With most of the trees covered with pink flowers reminds us of the spring and it’s time for getting to see the old leaves fall with fresh green leaves blossoming which are a treat in itself to watch.
Often due to busy schedules or overwhelmed with traffic woes we miss to notice these changes happening in nature once in a year. But if you are travelling inside city and if you observe outside by coming out of the phone mode, you can actually see the beauty in your city itself, why go far to a different nature’s abode, when you have few small things which you can see and enjoy in your city itself.
It is only what we observe and what makes things look beautiful even in the midst of this pollution, traffic and buildings which are the trademark of any big city like Bengaluru, you can still enjoy what the nature offers in the middle of all these.
The pink flower trees that we see are called abebuia avellanedae and Tabebuia rosea as per botany.
How Bengaluru got pink blossoms?
Also called pink trumpet trees, they are native to South America and were brought to the city by the British colonists. Their affinity for ornamental exotic species led them to bring the vibrant pink trumpet trees to Bengaluru. The result of which we are seeing in generations.
There was a tree opposite to our old house and every year I used to wait for Feb-March times when I could get to see the tree showing us pink flowers every morning until all the flowers fall off. Evening times with dull lighting, it was another treat itself to watch them altogether.
There is a poet in Kannada, Da.Ra.Bendre who has written a poem about the spring festival of Ugadi, in which he worder about how trees can shed their leaves and re-blossom every year and why we humans do not have that privilege?! “Niddegomme nitya marana, yedda sala naveena janana, namage yeke barado”(Die everytime you sleep, and a new life everytime you get up!). How beautiful the thoughts are. But we humans are like this and may be it is the nature’s way of showing us symbolically that it wants to us to shed our past hurts and blossom from within atleast once a year. Of-course God has given us the boon of forgetting things as time-passes and helping us to do the same.
What to do you say? Next time when getting out of home, watch out for these pink beauties and come May, watch out for red mayflowers!
To see the beauty of it, the one which was in front of our old house!
With Best wishes It's TVR..
Beautifully written and captured the beauty of the pink flower trees..
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