Ooty Botanical garden is one of the prior means of attraction of the locales. Completed in 1847, by the Marquis of Tweedale, Ooty Botanical Garden makes your travel to Ooty more exciting and alluring. Enriched with significance the Botanical Garden is a repository of a large array of rare trees, shrubs and flowers of South India. Sprawled over a total area of 55 acres, the Botanical Garden is framed by copious lawns, decked with varicolored flowering bushes and plants. Money-puzzle tree (as money cant climb the tree), fossilized tree (20 million year old), the cork tree and the Italian-style garden are the particular features in the Ooty Botanical Garden.
Botanical Garden – the Government of Tamil Nadu and the department of Horticulture run the treasure of Ooty. Flowers of diverse colors are the utmost tempting feature that one gets to see so many at a time. Separate fern house in the Botanical Gardens is decorated with many ferns and orchids. A part of the rich and unique collection includes multi colored roses, the imported shrubs and various exotic and ornamental plants having thirty types of Eucalyptus trees. Several rare species of plants are also exhibited in the month of May to tempt the visitors with charm and beauty. The ‘Summer Festival’ is held every year in the month of May in the Botanical Garden, the added attraction for tourists. It is really exciting to know there remains something extra ordinary in this beautiful garden all though out the year.
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