Place: DELHI
The Garden Tourism Festival is an annual pilgrimage for us, thanks to my mother's insistence. Held annually over the third weekend of February, the festival is timed to show of the season's prolific floral outpouring at its best. Dahlias, geraniums, azaleas, pansies, chrysanthemums, daisies, gerberas and a whole lot more whose names remain unknown to me.
That brings me to my grouse over this festival, since I have been seeing it from its early years at Talkatora Gardens, it has remained fairly static in its format. There are potted plants usually sent by Rashtrapati Bhawan and a handful of corporate houses such as the Munjals, who bag almost all prizes. There are hardly any new names. The labelling is poor, with not even the names of flowers mentioned! The labels only mention the category of prize and rank, so you may read labels like - 'Garden Perennials - Second Prize', and be non the wiser on what the flowers actually are.
But anyways, flowers are always a delight, and my mother's love for them ensures we go every year, if only to buy plants for our terrace garden.
Here is a look at some pics from 2012's edition:
Purples are a favourite among flowers and gardeners clearly. A huge variety of flowers in numerous shades light up the show in royal hues.
That brings me to my grouse over this festival, since I have been seeing it from its early years at Talkatora Gardens, it has remained fairly static in its format. There are potted plants usually sent by Rashtrapati Bhawan and a handful of corporate houses such as the Munjals, who bag almost all prizes. There are hardly any new names. The labelling is poor, with not even the names of flowers mentioned! The labels only mention the category of prize and rank, so you may read labels like - 'Garden Perennials - Second Prize', and be non the wiser on what the flowers actually are.
But anyways, flowers are always a delight, and my mother's love for them ensures we go every year, if only to buy plants for our terrace garden.
Here is a look at some pics from 2012's edition:
Purples are a favourite among flowers and gardeners clearly. A huge variety of flowers in numerous shades light up the show in royal hues.
