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| Bhour flower garden---a feast foe eyes and smelling sense | | | | It may be a poor comparison to the tulip garden inaugurated by Congress President and UPA Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi at Srinagar, two days earlier, the throwing open of flower garden, setup over 20 kanals of land at Bhour camp in the outskirts of Jammu city by the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad yesterday, will provide an attractive visiting spot for the Jammuities, who are deprived of greenery and floriculture. The setting up of tulip garden at Srinagar, containing rare qualities of tulip flowers in abundance as well as the setting up of Bhour multi flower garden are the brain children and outlet of the imaginative and visionary mind of Ghulam Nabi Azad. These botanical ventures have discovered Ghulam Nabi Azad as a floriculturist with high acumen. Azad, a post graduate degree holder in Botany, who after his academic carrier adopted politics as a whole time profession or a field of service, yet the instinct and love for flowers and plants, which he acquired as a Botany student, has got its manifestation in conceiving and carrying to its logical end the development of waste lands into flower gardens, to create an healthy environ and add to the natural beauty of the spots. The Bhour flower garden is particularly a welcome step, since Jammu badly needed a prestigious spot, which could attract the visitors coming for Vaishno Devi pilgrimage to the state as well as the local lovers of nature, to spend sometime to fulfill their aesthetic urge. However to make the flower park at Bhour worth visiting for the people, particularly for tourists outside the state, the renovation and improvement of the existing road link to the spot is imperative. Presently the link road from the main road off airport leading to Mira Sahib, is in a highly dilapidated condition with deep ditches and gorges. Further no adequate public transport is available for visiting the spot. The minibus service from Jammu city to Peer Baba and Bhour camp is quite inadequate with a long frequency. To facilitate the common man, having no personal conveyance, to have a feast for the eyes and soothe their tired nerves, plying of more minibuses and other modes of transport on this route is highly desirable. While comparing the Bhour flower garden with the tulip garden in Srinagar, the latter may be much larger and more attractive, giving better feast to the eyes, yet lacking in fragrance, as has been the case with flowers in Kashmir, the Bhour flower garden will spread fragrance of multiple flowers all around and will give more feast to the nose. The garden should be kept open for the general public, of course with some restrictions that the visitors do not fiddle with the blooming flowers and least trample the saplings under their feet. The plucking of flowers should be strictly prohibited to spare the beauty of the same to be robed of. |
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