Scenes straight from Lalbagh Flower Show – 2013!

You cannot park your vehicle inside Lalbagh, so opt for public transport instead. If you are willing to walk that extra mile, the world of flowers awaits you at Lalbagh, Bangalore!

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Click on the slideshow to watch the pictures from the Lalbagh Independence Day Flower Show – 2013. The show was inaugurated on 7 August 2013, and will be on till 15 August, 2013.

Revel in the beauty of flowers this weekend, with the series of holidays! Visit the show. Draw some inspiration. Start gardening!

Highlights this year

  • Exhibition spreads across the garden. Main attractions are placed inside the Glass House.
  • A vertical, 17-feet-high garden with more than 5,000 plants is one of the highlights.
  • A 13-feet-long floral boat full of roses is yet another attraction. For all the nine days, this will use up 2 lakh roses.
  • 439 participants will participate in Bonsai, Ikebana, Indian floral art and vegetable carving competitions
  • Free entry for students on August 13 and August 15 between 8 am and 5 pm
  • Entry fee for adults is Rs. 40. For children below 12 years, Rs. 10
  • Exhibition displaying briefs on the activities of Horticulture Department.
  • Farmers or gardeners can get their queries on horticulture or gardening answered at the information desk next to the horticultural exhibition.
  • Vegetable exhibition set up by Horticulture Department of HAL and BBMP.
  • If you walk down the road behind Glass House, you will find stalls for wooden toys, jute bags, flower and vegetable seeds, tool kits for gardening etc.
  • There are stalls from which you can purchase seeds of fruits and flowers.
  • There are not many fruits to display this year.
  • No parking for vehicles inside Lalbagh. School vehicles are allowed.
  • There are nurseries outside Lalbagh, which sell flower plants, pots, manure, mud etc.
  • Don’t go in the evenings, as there is no appropriate shelter if it rains.
  • Visit in the mornings, so that you can actually observe flowers. If you choose to go in the evenings, there will be lot of rush, and you will end up counting heads instead of watching flowers!
  • Do not litter the lawn inside the park.

Parking facility:

Parking is available at –

  • Opposite to Mauri hotel
  • BMTC Shanthi Nagara Bus Stand
  • HOmbeGowda School
  • Hopcoms KH circle
  • J C Road BBMP parking place
  • On Vani Vilas Road, parking facility is available on both sides of the road from Lalbagh West Gate to Shesh Mahal Junction.
  • On MNK Rao Road, left side of the road from Lalbagh West Gate to Milk Booth Junction will have parking facility.
  • The last two above are special parking facilities introduced for the sake of Flower Show only, and will be cancelled after August 15.
  • If you decide to park at Shantinagar busstand, you need to walk from there to the centre of Lalbagh, where the flower show is on. Good exercise for your legs, but difficult when you have small kids alongwith you. Better option would be to drive till Lalbagh gate, let everybody get down there, and go back to Shantinagar to park the vehicle.
  • Wherever you park, you cannot avoid walking for some half kilometre – which is of course good for health!

For more pictures from the show, click here.

Addendum

Updated on: 10 May 2013

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Comments:

  1. bhadra dasari says:

    Eagar to visit today:-)

  2. S Srinivasan says:

    Yesterday, I visited the superb Flower Show and prepared an album of about 175 photographs. All are welcome to see and enjoy the excellent work done by the Horticulture Department of Govt. of Karnataka and various other Institutions . Congratulations on the best show put up every year on important occasions. Please browse through the link below:
    https://plus.google.com/photos/114536048959653758563/albums/5910459203034818193/5910468244184322194?banner=pwa&authkey=CIHPnrXD_u2ToQE&pid=5910468244184322194&oid=114536048959653758563

    SRINIVASAN.S

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