Tulip garden

In Srinagar Asia’s biggest tourist garden on the banks of the famed Dal Lake in Indian Kashmir will serve as an enticing invitation for tourism in the state.Here 60 varieties of tulips at Sirajbagh, a vast fertile stretch of land situated at the foothills of the Zabarwan Mountains on the banks of the Dal Lake in Srinagar. The authorities have managed to grow as many as sixty varieties of the flower imported from Holland.



An explosion of colour in Asia's largest recreational tulip garden has emerged after 60 varieties were imported from Netherlands and planted in the Siraj Bagh Tulip Garden only a few months ago.



"There are 12 lakh tulips. People from all over country, all over India should come and see themselves. Now they don't need to go to Holland and they can have view of tulips. People from film Industry and tourists should come here,"



The tulip bloom coincides with the almond bloom in Kashmir. And by constructing tulip and almond gardens on the bank of Dal Lake government is using flower power to attract tourists to Kashmir.