Srinagar, Dec 12: District Ramban is set to welcome tourists in its own tulip garden being set up at the picturesque Sanasar. The garden is spread over an area of 45 kanals.
The district administration is also looking to prepare another patch of land at Dagantop for tulip cultivation.
The garden will help boost tourism activities in the district, said Deputy Commissioner Ramban, Mussarat Zia. He also shared on Twitter the images of the garden being set up with tulip flowers.
“LET US WOO THE TOURISTS! Tulip bulbs’ plantation begins on the now expansive Tulip Garden in the picturesque Sanasar resort of Ramban District,” Zia tweeted.
The development of the tulip garden started in 2018 over an area of 40 kanals but it was later expanded after the inclusion of additional five kanals of land that was provided by the Patnitop Development Authority (PDA) to the Floriculture department at Sanasar. Sanasar is the name given to the two small villages of Sana and Sar named after small local lakes.
In 2021, more than 19000 Lilium flowers bloomed and welcomed visitors. Sanasar is one of the most beautiful and unexplored tourist destinations in the Jammu region. The tulips will bloom around the same time along with Kashmir’s Tulip Garden.
The administration in the coming season (April-May 2023) is expecting a good tourist influx to the district in view of the grand opening of the tulip garden, which also will be the first tulip garden in the Jammu division.
This will be the second largest tulip garden in J&K Union territory after the iconic Tulip Garden located at the foothills of Zabarwan hills in Srinagar, one of the biggest in Asia where 1.5 million flowers were in bloom this year and witnessed an all-time high number of arrivals of visitors, locals as well as domestic.
