Asia’s largest Tulip Garden:
With a dazzling display of colors, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, formerly known as Siraj Bagh, is getting ready to welcome guests this weekend. This garden, which is tucked away in Srinagar, Kashmir, between Dal Lake and Zabarwan Hills, will welcome visitors on Saturday, March 23, and representatives of the floriculture department have stated that there will be a greater variety of tulips in the garden this year.
With five more new tulip kinds added this year, the garden now has 68 varieties in total. In addition, two lakh more bulbs were planted by the department, making a record-breaking 17 lakh tulip bulbs dispersed over 55 hectares of ground in the garden.
What’s new this year at Srinagar Tulip Garden:
The variety of floral splendor on exhibit is enhanced by the presence of other springtime blooms including hyacinths, daffodils, muscari, and cyclamens in addition to tulips.
The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden was created in 2007 with the goal of expanding Jammu and Kashmir’s tourism season beyond the summer and winter seasons. The garden began with 50,000 tulip bulbs that were brought in from Holland, but it soon became well-known to visitors and saw constant development in both the number of visitors and the variety of tulips.
Over 3.65 lakh visitors from both domestic and foreign countries visited the garden last year, demonstrating its growing popularity as a travel destination. Interestingly, a number of film units have chosen to film portions of their projects in the picturesque beauty of the garden, making it a popular site for filming for a variety of video and film productions.
The Srinagar Municipal Corporation has been instructed by the administration to organize cleaning programs and offer mobile restrooms this year. In addition, the department of floriculture has added around 22,000 square feet of additional parking in an effort to conveniently handle the increase in visitors.
