Visit to Ahmed Irfan's Garden in Lahore- Pakistan

We will be visiting some beautiful gardeners of Lahore starting this Sunday This is the thread from where this discussion started http://www.gardeningpakistan.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=720&p=5040#p5040

Let us start with Ahmed Irfan who resides at Thokar niaz beg.We intend to go this Sunday March 18th, 2012 at around 11am. Those who are interested to go can coordinate with Birg Arif who resides in Gulberg III and has a farm house at thokar niaz beg. His cell number is 0321 4639444.

Every gardener of Lahore is quite welcome. I will post picture soon.

2nd Tulip flower show lahore 2012

Second tulip flower show was held 16-19 February, 2012 at Royal palm golf club, Lahore, Pakistan. There were not a lot of people there may be due to lack of publicity of the show but the flowers filled that gap. There were some new varieties of tulips which were not present in the first tulip show last year.Here are those.

This one is Monte. I think most of these are darwin hybirds. My guess is none of the tulips there was species.


The close up. My favorite picture of the tulip show.


This is monsella is a an early tulip which is also called peony tulip due to its resemblance with peony.




This is Gerrit Van Der Valk.








These tulips at the lahore flower show were meant for exhibition and not for naturalizing. Probably early blooming tulips are more suited to naturalizing because late flowering tulips in hot climates like ours never get the time to gather energy for next year survival, this extra time is what makes early blooming tulips more suitable for naturalizing in hot climates.

I guess the bulbs were pre-chilled as lahore climate requires pre-chilling for tulip flowers. My experiment with species tulips this year is still in progress, will let you know if i am successful in that.

DHA Flower show 2012, Lahore

The sixth annual DHA flower competition will held from March 15-17, 2012 at Sheeba Park near McDonalds Y-Block DHA Lahore.

Flowers of Murree hills - Pipeline track

This is the last post in this series of posts "Flowers of murree hills". This last post was delayed because i was unable to identify some flowers. Still there are some flowers i can not identify and any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.

This is Oenothera rosea, evening primrose. Blooming happily in the crack of a steep hill. In fact it was growing on a hilly slope, no soil visible at all. Location was nathiagali.


This is the first from the un-identified flowers. Seems like a Ranunculus but not sure which species.




This one is another unknown flower. Blooming in the mountain crack of pipeline track at Donga gali.


This is also a very common bush on the pipeline track. Fragrant white starry flowers. I thought of wax flower, hoya but hoyas do not thrive in this cold area. Maybe an Abelia.



This one is again i could not identify. It is a small tree and few flowers were there. May be a robinia. i captured it in Nathia gali main road.


This one seems to be Hypochaeris radicata, dendelion.


Another unknown flower on the pipeline track.


The last of the unknown flowers, it was not fragrant.


I will try to put a post on butterflies of Bhurban and Nathiagali next.