Property News · April 4, 2023

A dazzling display of 1.5m tulips – but only after a hard year for Indian workers


Visitors to Asia’s largest tulip garden in Srinagar, Kashmir, do not see the backbreaking toil by low-paid workers that lies behind the spectacleAn explosion of colour – and long queues of traffic – marked the opening of Asia’s largest tulip garden in Srinagar, Kashmir. Over the next month, thousands of people are expected to visit the 30-hectare (74-acre) garden on the shores of the picturesque Dal lake to see more than 60 varieties of blooms during the annual festival, which opened yesterday.It takes a year, and an army of gardeners, to prepare for the event. “There are over 543 beds spread across the four terraces of the garden,” says the garden supervisor Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, who meticulously maps out which variety and colour of tulip appear in each of the large beds. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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