The Temi Tea Garden in Ravangla, considered one of the best in India and in the world. It is established in 1969 by the Government of Sikkim.
It is the only tea garden in Sikkim. The garden is laid over a gradually sloping hill covering an area of 177 hectares.
Organic tea is produced in this garden based on the guidelines issued by the Institute of Marketology (IMO) of Switzerland.
Top quality tea is produced, which has great demand in the international market.
Sim's Park in Coonoor is one of the major attraction that is feast for the nature lovers. Here one can see variety of beautiful and colorful flowers.
Here are a few of them.
In Sim's Park of Coonoor among the various plants and trees one can also see a lot of birds. During tour of the park we also spotted many birds and one such bird is Red Vented Bulbul.
Their body is dark brown with a scaly pattern while the head is darker or black.
The rump is white while the vent is red. The black tail is tipped in white.
Thread Garden at Ooty is located by the side of North Lake Road, opposite the Boat House. This beautiful garden is created by Anthony Josheph with the help of 50 skillful and proficient craftsman. This garden is a first of this type that is so colorful and lovely.
It exhibits some of the most magnificent and exquisite collection of artificial flowers and plants.
To create this wonder one has not used a stitch of a needle or any other machinery. Stiff cardboards are used for flowers and petals, steel and copper wires are used for stem. Along with this they generously used variety of colorful threads to create these visual delights.
More than 400 different shades and plain natural colored embroidery threads have been used to create artificially made flowers that remain fresh for a long long time.
It has wonderful display of flowers, plants and lawns fabricated entirely from thread, canvas and wire. They look very natural and fresh forever.
Pherozshah Mehta Gardens in Mumbai built on top of huge reservoir is one of the beautiful garden in the city. The park was primarily dedicated to Pherozeshah Mehta, a prominent Parsi political leader, activist and lawyer.
The garden is popularly known as Hanging Garden. It has numerous hedges carved into the shapes of animals in very creative forms.
The garden has well maintained pathways for strolling. It has varieties of plants, flowers that are treat to the eyes.
From here one can capture a sunset view of the Arabian Sea.
The Hanging Gardens in Mumbai is one of the oldest garden in the city. It is a terraced garden perched at the top of Malabar Hill just opposite the Kamala Nehru Park.
For people looking for quite time away from the hustle and bustle of city life this is the right place.
The park was laid out in 1881 by Ulhas Ghapokar over Bombay's main reservoir.
This garden is beautiful place with a variety of flowers and well maintained greens all around.
The Botanical Garden at Ooty is one of the must visit tourist places. This garden has many beautiful flowers and some of them are here:
You can also find carious birds in the garden.
Hebbal Lake in north Bangalore is favourite spot for nature lovers. It is nice to watch the various birds, butterflies and other animals.
It is fun to watch the squirrels to go about their routine.
There are many roses of different colours and sizes at the Government Rose Garden at Ooty.
They differ from each other with very minute differences. Here is a glimpse of colourful roses.
In Sim's Park of Coonoor among the various plants and trees one can also see a lot of birds. During tour of the park we also spotted many birds and one such bird is Sunbird.
It is having good time with nectar in the flower.
We came across many birds during our visit to Ooty. We spotted the small beautiful bird Nilgiri Flycatcher in the Botanical Garden.
The colour of the body is dark steely indigo blue with some violet-blue on the forehead and darker lores. It has long tail with two blue central tail feathers and the dark brown and edged with indigo lateral feathers. The wing feathers are dark brown with a narrow outer fringe of blue.
They diet includes small invertebrates and some fruit, particularly berries.
This beautiful bird is found mainly in the higher altitude shola forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.
There are many roses of different colors and sizes at the Government Rose Garden at Ooty.
They differ from each other with very minute differences. One of them is in purple colour here.
The Brindavan Gardens is a garden located just 19kms from the heart of Mysore. The garden occupies an area of 60 acres. The garden is maintained by the Cauvery Niravari Nigama, a Government of Karnataka enterprise. The garden is open to general public and a nominal entry-fee is charged.
The work on laying out this garden was started in the year 1927 and completed in 1932. The garden is laid out in 3 terraces which contain water fountains, Ficus trees, foliage plants such as Duranta plumaria and Euphorbia and flowering plants like Celosia, Marigold and bougainvillea.
There is also a lake within the garden with boating facilities available for visitors. The visitors can enjoy a boat ride around the famous statue of Goddess Kaveri. It is a mesmerizing sight when the whole garden is lit up in the evenings.
This beautiful gardens are laid out below the Krishnaraja Sagar dam built across the river Cauvery. The main attraction of the park is the musical fountain in which bursts of water are synchronized to the music of songs after sunset.
We came across many birds during our visit to Ooty. In Botanical Garden we spotted the small bird Velvet-fronted Nuthatch moving all over the tree without being quite in one position. It was very difficult to track it as they are very active.
This lovely bird is characterized by a big head, short tail and powerful bill and feet. The pretty bird is violet-blue above, with lavender cheeks, beige underparts and a whitish throat. The bill is red, and there is a black patch on the forehead.
It is a very noisy bird. It has unique ability to climb down trees. They feed on insects and spiders.
They are mostly found in southern Asia from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka east to south China and Indonesia.
We came across many birds during our visit to Ooty. One such bird we spotted in the Botonical Garden is Indian Blackbird.
It is a small bird that has has black plumage; yellow eye-ring, bill. They feed on wide range of insects, earthworms, seeds and berries. It feeds mainly on the ground, running and hopping with a start-stop-start progress.
It is seen mostly in India and Sri Lanka.
The Botanical Garden at Ooty is one of the must visit tourist places. This garden has many beautiful flowers and some of them are here:
Here is a bee hovering near the beautiful flower.
