Flowers, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

'Kadapul mal' S, blooming in our home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

13th June 2013 - 2pm.

13th June 2013 - 5pm.

13th June 2013 - 7pm.

13th June 2013 - 9pm

This beautiful large flower blooms late after sunset. It has a sweet aroma when it opens. By morning it has totally wilted. Pious Buddhists in Sri Lanka await its opening to give it as a 'mal pooja' to an image of Lord Buddha

Flowers in our home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Pink temple tree flowers after a shower of rain.

Red Anthiuriums.

The 'Lady Jane'  variety of Anthurium.

Lady Janes.

Flowers in our home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Temple tree, Araliya S, Illatharali T,-  Plumeria acuminata

Jerbera S

Bougainvillea

Euphorbia

Flowers from Home garden, Alupola, Sri Lanka.

Trifoliate of trifoliate leaves - Home garden plants (4) - Alupola, Rathnapura,

A decorative type of colored leaf with a trifoliate pattern. It makes a nice change in a flower filled garden.

Home garden flowers (3) Alupola, Sri Lanka.

Flowers in the home gardens- 2 - Alupola, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka.

Flowers in the home gardens - Alupola, Rathnapura, Sri Lanka.

Quite a lot of varieties of flowers, bloom in the home gardens of Alupola. The British planters brought these for their home gardens here. Now these are found all over, as the climate is favorable for their growth in Alupola. Here you see a rose in full bloom.

Red anthuriams from a home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Red anthuriums grown in home gardens, with minimal attention fetch a reasonable price in Sri Lanka. They are bought by florists for weddings and other functions. I took this picture of a crop, from a small garden plot in Avissawella, Sri Lanka.