Tulip Garden In Srinagar Open To Tourists
Srinagar, Mar 25: Asia’s largest tulip garden in the Himalayan foothills, overlooking the Dal Lake in Srinagar has opened to the public today.
The garden has over 1.5 million multi-coloured tulips of 63 varieties. They are expected to bloom by the end of this month and will last for a maximum of four weeks. The tulip garden is a terraced garden covering an area of 30 hectares. This Tulip Garden was opened in 2007 and every year, the Tulip Festival is held attracting many tourists. This year, two lakh new tulip bulbs were added to the garden.
Tulips in Kashmir were once grown on traditional mud rooftops of the houses.
