Cute flowers

Shantanu Bhattacharya

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Oct 10, 2010, 5:53:21 AM10/10/10

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Hi

i dont know whether the adjective cute can be used for flowers....

but these two flowers seemed to be really " cute" to me : )

any idea about the name?

Shantanu : )

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Pankaj Kumar

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Oct 10, 2010, 6:03:34 AM10/10/10

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This is called Viola..common called as Pansy
Pankaj

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tanay bose

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Oct 10, 2010, 10:50:54 AM10/10/10

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Pansy is quite common inwinter gardens

tanay

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Smita Raskar

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Oct 10, 2010, 11:52:39 AM10/10/10

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Your adjective cute fits perfectly to there flowers ..so beautiful :):)

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Shantanu Bhattacharya <shn...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Gurcharan Singh

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Oct 10, 2010, 12:11:43 PM10/10/10

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Viola tricolor

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nabha meghani

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Oct 10, 2010, 12:30:17 PM10/10/10

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Mani ji had sent some fotos of pansies from Chashmeshahi garden, Srinagar, and I had sent some Fotos from my garden in Ritterhude

http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/d8cddf0414a2d203/e5fb683837edeaa5?lnk=gst&q=my+garden#e5fb683837edeaa5

Efforts are being made to cultivate cat face in the flower. Shall send some fotos, when i see some.