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Visitors admiring flowers at Lalbagh in Bangalore on Tuesday. The garden is getting ready for the Republic Day Flower Show. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy
BANGALORE, JAN. 18. It will be time for the Flower Show again at Lalbagh on Thursday. The gardens are getting ready for the Republic Day Horticulture Show of the Mysore Horticultural Society and the State Department of Horticulture. The competitions for the best gardens of different types will be held along with the show which concludes on January 26. The show, partly in the famed Glass House, includes exhibits such as potted plants, cut flowers and Ikebana and Indian floral art arrangements, Bonsai, vegetable carvings and the new Dutch flower art besides dried flower arrangements. These will be open to viewing from the afternoon of January 22 in the Marigowda Memorial Hall of Lalbagh. This time the additional feature will be the display of Bonsai plants at the Seetharam Ratnamma Bonsai Park, against a carefully landscaped background. There will also be water plants in the ponds at this park. In the Glass House, the Indian Nurserymen's Association will display arrangements of Poinsettias, roses and foliage plants while the State Horticulture Department will exhibit temperate flowers from the hilly regions, including Gloxina, Begonias, Altromaria and Lilium. Horticultural inputs and seeds will be displayed by organisations such as the University of Agricultural Sciences, Spices Board, Coffee Board, Coconut Development Board, Karnataka Compost Development Corporation, Khoday Biotech, Indo American Hybrid Seeds, Namdhari Seeds and Krishnendra Nursery. The garden competition this year has 390 entries compared to 365 the last time. There will be 459 participants in the Ikebana and floral art exhibitions. The Minister for Horticulture, R. Srinivas, will present prizes to winners in different categories on January 25. The Mysore Horticultural Society was established in 1912 by G.H. Krumbiegal, the Germany-born Superintendent of Lalbagh who also designed the Brindavan Gardens near Mysore. Since 1922, two horticultural shows, known as the Summer Show and Winter Show, have been held regularly. They are now conducted to coincide with the Republic Day and Independence Day.
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