Asia’s Largest Tulip Backyard In Srinagar Thrown Open For Public – Kashmir Observer

Srinagar- Ensconced between the Dal Lake and the Zabarwan Hills, Asia’s largest tulip backyard was thrown open to the general public on Saturday, officers mentioned.

The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Backyard, earlier often known as Siraj Bagh, was opened for the general public as tulips of various colors have began to bloom, Floriculture division officers mentioned.

“The tulip backyard has been thrown open to the general public,” the division’s Commissioner Secretary Sheikh Fayaz Ahmad informed PTI.

The division vegetation the tulip bulbs in a phased method in order that the flowers stay within the backyard for a month or extra.

“When the backyard blooms absolutely, there can be a rainbow of tulips,” division officers mentioned.

The division added that 5 new forms of tulips have been added to the prevailing 68 this yr. It has additionally elevated the world of the tulip backyard by including one other two lakh bulbs.

A document 17 lakh tulip bulbs have been planted within the backyard unfold over 55 hectares, the officers mentioned.

Different spring flowers reminiscent of hyacinths, daffodils, muscari and cyclamens can even be on show so as to add to the number of flowers and colors within the backyard, they mentioned.

The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Backyard was arrange by Ghulam Nabi Azad, the then-chief minister of the erstwhile state, in 2007 to advance the vacationer season in Jammu and Kashmir that was earlier restricted to summers and winters.

The backyard began on a small scale with 50,000 tulip bulbs imported from The Netherlands. It immediately gained reputation and has been steadily rising annually — each when it comes to the variety of guests and the tulips.

Greater than 3.65 lakh guests, each home and international, visited the backyard final yr whereas it witnessed a footfall of three.60 lakh individuals in 2022.

The tulip backyard can also be one of many favorite areas for taking pictures movies and movies as a number of items from throughout the nation shot components of their initiatives on the website final yr.

The official added that the division has added almost 22,000 sq. toes of further parking house for the comfort of holiday makers.

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