Asia's Largest Tulip Garden In Srinagar Is Now Open To Visitors: Check Details
The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Srinagar has opened for public on Saturday, March 23.?The garden, formerly known as Siraj Bagh is also Asia's largest tulip garden.
73 varieties of tulips?
This year, the garden will have a total of 73 varieties of tulips. The authorities have added five new varieties of tulips to the existing 68 varieties in the garden. The department has also increased the area under the tulip garden by adding another two lakh bulbs.
17 lakh tulips?
A record 17 lakh tulip bulbs have been planted in the garden that spreads over 55 hectares of land, the officials said.
The tulip garden is ensconced between Dal Lake and Zabarwan Hills.?
Other flowers in tulip garden
Other spring flowers, such as hyacinths, daffodils, muscari and cyclamens, will also be on display to add to the variety of flowers and colours in the garden, they said.
The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden was set up by then chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in 2007 to advance the tourist season in Jammu and Kashmir which was earlier limited to summers and winters.
How tulip garden became a hit
The garden started at a small scale with 50,000 tulip bulbs imported from Holland. It instantly gained popularity among tourists and has been steadily growing each year, both in terms of number of visitors and tulips that bloom here.
Now it has grown to become a must-see tourist attraction in Srinagar during this time of the year.
More than 3.65 lakh visitors, both domestic and foreigners, visited the garden last year while in 2022, it saw a footfall of 3.6 lakh people.
It is also one of the favourite locations for shooting movies and videos as several film units from across the country have shot parts of their projects in the tulip garden last year.
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