My Visit to Lalbagh Botanical Garden

lifecruiser (57)in #travel • 6 years ago (edited)

In the last post, I had mentioned about the food street in VV Puram. I happened to visit that place after visiting Lalbagh Botanical Garden, here is the post about Lalbagh Botanical Garden. The main reason I went there was to purchase some plants and gardening tools. Anyone who resides in Bangalore would agree that finding a plant nursery is not too difficult, there are many nursery across the city but if you want to buy different varieties and at reasonable price then Lalbagh is the right place to go.

Enjoy going through the photos, if you happen to visit Bangalore then do visit this place.

Brief History

History always facinates me, here I won't go into details but just a sneak peek on the history of Lalbagh Garden.

You would be amazed to know that it was started in 1760 by Hyder Ali but he couldn't complete the building of this Garden and it was completed by his son Tipu Sultan. A specific community people who were good at gardening were deployed by Hyder Ali. Tipu Sultan added many plant species and uplifted the horticultural wealth of the garden. The Lalbagh Garden was inspird by Mughal Garden. Gradually the area of Lalbagh was increased during Tipu Sultan's period and then continued to grow during British period and even after Independence. Currently, the total area is 240 acres.

Buy Plants and Seeds

My visit was primarily to buy some plants and gardening tools for my home. We were planning to plant some rose, and other flowers around my home. Lalbagh plant nursery is available right after the entrance, and it is next to car parking hence carrying plants in car is easy. Variety of plants and flowers are available in the nursery, price ranging from Rs. 50 to Rs. 2000(or may be more).

There are many varieties of cactus plants, plant seeds and also many seeds for vegetable plants are also available. Gardening tools, pots, fertilisers, pesticides are also up for sale. In short, everything required for gardening is available here. This is surely one stop shop for all our gardening needs.

This time I bought 6 rose plants of different color, marigold, dahlia, holy basil plant etc.