Siva’s Garden is a daily wonder, reminding pilgrims of the beauties of life, the soft nurturing that surrounds us if we can just be still enough to see it. Today we bring you a small collection of the botanical creatures that live with us here at the monastery and are showing off, trying to impress pilgrims, to remind them of Siva’s infinite, and sometimes odd, forms.
Kavi Kat finds a quiet corner among the Calocasia Green Shield under the Bilva tree
A new arrival, Philodendron Gloriosum,
It is one of the most sought-after rarities in the botanical world today and we are working to make more copies.
Licuala cordata, a palm with almost perfectly round fronds
The Gold Rain tree in full bloom
New plantings along the San Marga path. Not impressive today, but they will be.
The leaf of a large anthurium
The purple is Petrea volubus or Queen’s Wreath Vine, with palm grass in the front.
It’s name tells the story of its abundance of flowers
Wow! A False Fruit tree shows its other-worldly look.
Looks so ancient
Such great engineering!
Om namah Shivaya! so beautiful bless bless bless !
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