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Ooty Flower Show
The hill station's botanical garden holds its annual flower show at the height of the summer season.
What happens
The Government Botanical Garden in Ooty, in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu, was laid out in the 1840s. Its flower show, first held in the 1890s, is the main event of the Nilgiris summer festival, when people from the hot plains come up to the cool. It usually takes place in the second or third week of May and lasts several days. Thousands of pots are arranged in terraces, and large models are built from carnations and roses. Rose, fruit and spice shows are held nearby in the same weeks.
The flowers
Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Government Botanical Garden" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Rose: User:Tigerente, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dahlia: JackyM59, CC BY 4.0, source
- Dianthus: Darkone ( talk · contribs ), CC BY-SA 1.0, source