Lilies are a symbol of Christ's resurrection. They remind me to live and not give up.

These flowering shrubs' photos have been clicked in August at The Art of Living International Center, Bangalore, India

Bangalore is the city of flowers to me. Though I have yet to visit its world famous Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, I clicked these flowers at the outskirts of the city, The Art of Living International Center.

A shiny, black sunbird catered to its young ones in this nest. The nest was decorated with jasmine blooms from the climber itself! It hung from a delicate twig.

The garden is productive because of the little time spent in daily watering, pruning dry twigs from shrubs (Chinese orange, roses, poinsettia, Shatavari), pruning the chrysanthemums thrice in the year, and emptying the seeds collected from last year

A single plant can give you hundreds of new plants in the next season if the seeds are preserved in a dry, airtight container. And there’s no saying where the new plants will pop up from previous year’s seeds scattered by the plant itself.

In the monsoon rains, cypress vine seeds have germinated on their own from the seeds dropped during summer. This vine is a hardy resident in my garden. It requires very little care. It simply knows when to sprout, and how to bloom! A liberal dose of