Government Rose Garden, Ooty

Government Rose Garden
Type Botanical
Location Ooty, India
Coordinates 11°24′22″N 76°42′31″E / 11.406108°N 76.708606°E / 11.406108; 76.708606Coordinates: 11°24′22″N 76°42′31″E / 11.406108°N 76.708606°E / 11.406108; 76.708606
Area 4 hectares
Opened 20 May 1995
Owned by Government of Tamil Nadu
Species 20000[1]
Collections Hybrid tea roses, Miniature Roses, Polyanthas, Papagena, Floribunda, Ramblers, Yakimour

The Government Rose Garden (formerly known as the Jayalalithaa Rose Garden, Centerary Rose Park and Nootrandu Roja Poonga)[2][3][4] It is situated on the slopes of the Elk Hill in Vijayanagaram of Ooty town in Tamil Nadu, India[5] at an altitude of 2200 meters.

Establishment

The Rose Park was established at Vijayanagaram in Ooty town to commemorate the centenary Flower Show in Government Botanical Gardens, Udagamandalam in May 1995. The flowers are arranged in five curving terraces covering four hectares.[6] This garden is maintained by the Tamil Nadu Horticulture Department.[7]

Features

Angel statue in ooty rose garden..
Government of Tamil Nadu emblem engraved in lawn at Rose Garden
Entrance of Ooty Rose Garden
Landscape of Roses planted as per in terrace farming.
A rose variety named after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa

Ooty has a unique tropical mountain climate, hence the garden has the ideal climatic conditions for growing of roses. Temperature variation is less and the rainfall distribution is uniform in the locale, which results in a long flowering season. The garden is visited by thousands of tourists throughout the year and even in winter, when it is not the flowering season.[1]

Initially, when the gardens were developed, 1,919 varieties of roses with 17,256 rose plants were planted.[5] Today this garden has more than 20,000 varieties of roses of 2,800 cultivars. It is one of the largest collection of roses in India.[1]

The collection of roses include Miniature Roses, Ramblers, Hybrid Tea Roses, Yakimour, Polyanthas, Papagena, Floribunda and roses of unusual colours like green and black. The varieties of rose plants planted here were assembled from different sources around the world.

The garden has been laid out with rose tunnels, pergolas and bowers with rose creepers. The slopes of the garden also features Nila Maadam, an observation platform. From the Nila Maadam, tourists can observe the entire rose garden.[5][8] The garden also features a statue of an angel amidst the roses.

Recognition

The rose garden has also received the Garden of Excellence Award[9] for being the best rose garden in south Asia, from The World Federation of Rose Societies, during May 2006, in Osaka, Japan.[10] This garden is one of the 35 gardens world wide to have won this award[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "World Federation of Rose Societies". Retrieved 2011-01-21.
  2. ↑ "Rose Park to be renamed". The Hindu (India). 23 May 2009.
  3. ↑ "A rose garden by another name causes confusion". The Hindu (India). 17 May 2008.
  4. ↑ "Tourism - Ooty". Retrieved 2011-01-22.
  5. 1 2 3 "TAMIL NADU-Rose Garden". Retrieved 2011-01-22.
  6. ↑ "Arrangement of Roses in Five Platforms". Retrieved 2011-01-12.
  7. ↑ "Tamil Nadu Horticulture Department". Retrieved 2011-01-12.
  8. ↑ "Nila Maadam". Retrieved 2011-01-12.
  9. 1 2 "List of award winners". Worldrose.org. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
  10. ↑ "Ooty Centenary Rose Park wins Garden of Excellence award", The Hindu (India), 19 Jan 2007

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