Asia’s largest tulip backyard set to open to guests in Kashmir Valley
3 min readExpress News Service
SRINAGAR: Asia’s largest tulip backyard in Srinagar with a flower carpet of 16 lakh tulips of various varieties, colors and fragrances can be thrown open for guests on March 19.
The tulip backyard in Srinagar is unfold over 30 hectares and is located alongside the financial institution of world well-known Dal lake at the foothills of the Zabarwan vary.
Inam-ul-Rehman, the backyard’s in cost, mentioned the tulips within the backyard have began to bloom and the carpet of tulips will mesmerize the guests.
“This year the garden will have 16 lakh tulips of 68 varieties, including four new varieties. The tulips will give a new and even more picturesque look to the garden,” Rehman mentioned.
Over 100 gardeners are working laborious to arrange the flower carpet for over a month.
Head gardener Tulip backyard Mohammad Yousuf mentioned there are early to mid to late varieties of tulips within the backyard and they’re planted accordingly to make sure that the backyard stays open for a month and the guests get a distinct look.
Rehman mentioned tulips want a low temperature for survival. “With the temperature hovering over 20 degrees celsius, the garden this year is being opened early due to early bloom of the tulips.”
The carpet of flowers, which provides a sense of paradise, is attracting lots of vacationers and locals yearly.
In 2020, a file 3.60 lakh vacationers visited the backyard for the gorgeous sight of lakhs of tulip bulbs of myriad colors in full bloom. Rehman mentioned the vacationers from the long-lasting Keukenhof flower backyard within the Netherlands — dubbed because the world’s largest Tulip backyard — had visited the backyard final 12 months.
The backyard has turn into one of many main vacationer sights of the valley because it was inaugurated in 2007 by then Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. The opening of the backyard has superior the tourism season in Kashmir and it alerts the arrival of spring.
SRINAGAR: Asia’s largest tulip backyard in Srinagar with a flower carpet of 16 lakh tulips of various varieties, colors and fragrances can be thrown open for guests on March 19.
The tulip backyard in Srinagar is unfold over 30 hectares and is located alongside the financial institution of world well-known Dal lake at the foothills of the Zabarwan vary.
Inam-ul-Rehman, the backyard’s in cost, mentioned the tulips within the backyard have began to bloom and the carpet of tulips will mesmerize the guests.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“This year the garden will have 16 lakh tulips of 68 varieties, including four new varieties. The tulips will give a new and even more picturesque look to the garden,” Rehman mentioned.
Over 100 gardeners are working laborious to arrange the flower carpet for over a month.
Head gardener Tulip backyard Mohammad Yousuf mentioned there are early to mid to late varieties of tulips within the backyard and they’re planted accordingly to make sure that the backyard stays open for a month and the guests get a distinct look.
Rehman mentioned tulips want a low temperature for survival. “With the temperature hovering over 20 degrees celsius, the garden this year is being opened early due to early bloom of the tulips.”
The carpet of flowers, which provides a sense of paradise, is attracting lots of vacationers and locals yearly.
In 2020, a file 3.60 lakh vacationers visited the backyard for the gorgeous sight of lakhs of tulip bulbs of myriad colors in full bloom. Rehman mentioned the vacationers from the long-lasting Keukenhof flower backyard within the Netherlands — dubbed because the world’s largest Tulip backyard — had visited the backyard final 12 months.
The backyard has turn into one of many main vacationer sights of the valley because it was inaugurated in 2007 by then Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. The opening of the backyard has superior the tourism season in Kashmir and it alerts the arrival of spring.
