Tourists at the well-known Tulip Garden on the banks of the Dal Lake in Srinagar.
| Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD
First popularised by Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Bollywood film Silsila in 1981, the short-lived tulip gardens are being multiplied on bigger scale in different districts of the Union Territory (U.T.), in the wake of success of the Srinagar tulip garden that attracts vacationers and locals in droves each spring season.
Sanasar, a cup-shaped inexperienced meadow encircled by tall cedars, in Ramban district in the Jammu province began a four-kanal (0.5 acre) tulip garden in 2017-18 with 28,000 to 30,000 tulip bulbs. Tulips have been grown in terraced beds for a greater visible enchantment.
“This year, the area earmarked for the tulip garden at Sanasar has been expanded to 35-40 kanals (five acres) with 2.7 lakh tulip bulbs of more than 20 varieties,” officers mentioned.
With blooming to keep until April, the divisional commissioner’s workplace in Jammu is wooing vacationers.
Mussarat Zia, Deputy Commissioner, Ramban, described the Sanasar tulip garden as “Srinagar’s kid tulip cousin”.
“Now expanded to 40 kanals, it will spread its colourful fragrance in the last week of March,” Mr. Zia mentioned in a tweet.
In Udhampur district, locals are queuing up to witness the spectacle of tulip blooming, planted in tons of of rows.
The Floriculture Department has planted 12,000 bulbs of 5 totally different varieties at the Highland Park, Kud, Udhampur.
The garden can also be beneath an growth plan in the future.
Buoyed by rising footfall of vacationers at the Srinagar tulip garden that is unfold over 30 hectares, tulip flowers, one of the first few flowers to bloom after a protracted winters in Kashmir, are turning into signatory flowers to the Valley gardens, although the blooming stays solely three to 5 weeks, relying on the temperature.
Hundreds of vacationers go to the Srinagar garden to relive the scenes from the film Silsila, with lengthy rows of over 15 lakh multicolour tulips of round 70 varieties.
It was the well-known track, Dekha ek Khwab from the film, shot at the Keukenhof tulip gardens in the Netherlands, that nonetheless captures the creativeness of guests to the Valley.
