A Day @ Lalbagh Flower Show 2012:

It was 9.30 PM on Saturday,..Tring Tring.. Got a call on phone from sis saying nxt day she had planned for an outing at Lalbagh Botanical Garden so she wouldn’t be able to makeup coming home. Once the call was dropped dad turned and asked, ‘Shall we go tomorrow morning??’. I replied instantly,’Yeah Sure..It will be fun. Let me get the batteries charged’. I left to get my batteries charged for Camera. Next day early morning at 5.30 AM dad woke us up and we got ready and started to LalBagh Flower show. Reached there around 6.30AM. So many people were already inside the Garden at that timing. Me got ready with my camera and started shooting the serine pictures all around. As I just crossed half the distance I thought this is way larger than the Kodaikanal and Ooty Botanical Gardens. The variety of trees and the flowers available here are decades old. Each tree tell you a story of its own. We first walked towards the Glass/Mirror house. The beauty of the flowershow which was displayed was a feast to your tiring eyes. A must watch of all beautiful swans, Pandas dinosaur and a lovely woodhouse at the top was just beautiful. I don’t have words to describe those piece of arts. Seems they have spent around 15 lacs for the setup alone and expecting around 5.5 lakh people this time. Mom saw my astonishing eyes and she said tis is way less than last year. Last year you should have seen it was just way more than this . I was wondering how good it would have been last year.

We spent around 1 hour inside the glasshouse taking various pictures near the panda, dinosaur, swans, and all the possible coverage areas we were allowed to take pictures. As time passed the crowd also increased and the security tightened. We were not allowed to stand at one place for a long time.

Once we all were fully satisfied with the view we came out of Mirror House and outside we saw there were many stalls displaying their own products like bonsai, flowers, seeds , samplings, pottery works etc etc etc. As we walked a bit further we saw a lane fully dedicated for the Vegetable gardening. Right from tomatoes to litchi to dragon fruit there were samplings available in various ranges.

On our way we saw awesome picture spot of rocks just opposite to the Japanese garden. I climbed fast and following me was my mom blaberring something behind ;) I started giving various poses at the top of the mountain and the pics turned out to be really good.

Later we set our journey towards Rose garden where 1000+ different types of roses were planted. The entry was restricted inside though. As we got a bit tired we sat at the benches and ate something from near by stalls and rested our legs until we gained somemore stamina as we enjoyed the photoshoot of newly married couple just opposite to the place where we sat.

As we recovered dad found another beautiful spot. Guess what??  He he ;) it was a beautiful tree with all its branches almost touching the ground. Dad first climbed on the tree and I too followed his footsteps. The pictures on the tree were really cool. Watching us take the pictures there that soon turned out to be a picture spot. We moved towards the lake area wandered inside for sometime and dad and mom enquired in detail about the various anthuriams, bought a few of them as I enjoyed taking the snaps of welcoming beauty around the botanical garden.

On the whole it was a worthy day out with my parents. Had a lovely day at Lalbagh Flower show 12.

And truly treasure the memories of this day!! A few snaps from the journey are available in the previous posts. Also checkout detailed pictures at http://floweredits.blogspot.in/ ;) Hope you all do too had a nice time !!