Planting for the second tourist season began at the Government Botanical Garden here on Monday.
In a press release, the Department of Horticulture and Plantation Crops said the second tourist season usually began in September of each year and that planting at the Garden was inaugurated by the Nilgiris Collector S.P. Amrith.
According to officials, seeds and plants from across the country, including Kolkata, Kashmir, Punjab and Bengaluru, are being brought to the Nilgiris for planting so that they will be in full bloom during the second tourist season. During the season, inca marigolds, French marigolds, asters, verbenas, lupines, poppies, sweet liliums, ageratums, chrysanthemums, calendulas, helichrysums, saponarias and petunias are among 60 varieties of plants that will be grown and exhibited in the greenhouses, galleries and lawns of the 175-year-old garden.
