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Tulip Garden: Floriculture Department to hold Tulip festival in April, garden will open this month

Tulip Garden: Floriculture Department to hold Tulip festival in April, garden will open this month
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Srinagar: Department of Floriculture will be organising 10-day Tulip festival in April to attract more travelers. The garden is likely to be thrown open for visitors in the last week of March

Deputy Director Floriculture department Nazir Ahmad Reshi said that the event will host cultural programmes, photography competitions and other activities for the visitors to enjoy their trip to the garden.

Reshi said that Governor Satyapal Malik may likely throw open the garden.

Around 12 lakhs tulips of 51 varieties have been planted in the garden that is spread over around 15 hectares of land under the foothills of Zabarwan range.

10 percent of the flowers would have bloomed by the end of March, Reshi said.

The department has imported around 40,000 Hyacinth tulip bulbs this season including Hyacinths, Narcissus and Daffodil flowers to add the variety.

World Tulip Summit Society declared it the second best tulip garden in the world in 2014.

Originally known as Siraj Bagh, Srinagar’s Tulip Garden has been described as a ‘florimarvel’ by cultivators as the tulips spread a rainbow of red, orange, purple, white, pink, parrot and yellow colors on the precincts when in full bloom.


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