{"id":14172,"date":"2023-08-20T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14172"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:25:44","slug":"indira-gandhi-memorial-tulip-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indira-gandhi-memorial-tulip-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, <strong>previously Model Floriculture Center<\/strong>, is a <strong>tulip garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>the largest tulip garden in Asia,<\/strong> spread over an area of about <strong>30 hectares.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>situated on the foothills of the Zabarwan Range with an overview of Dal Lake<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The garden was <strong>opened in 2007<\/strong> with the aim to boost floriculture and tourism in Kashmir Valley.<\/li>\n<li>The garden is <strong>built on a sloping ground<\/strong> <strong>in a terraced fashion<\/strong> consisting of <strong>seven terraces.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The garden <strong>houses about 48 varieties of tulip flowers<\/strong>. The garden also <strong>has several types of other flowers, including daffodils, hyacinths, roses, narcissus<\/strong>, and other ornamental plants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tulip festival:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>annual celebration<\/strong> that <strong>aims to showcase the range of flowers in the garden <\/strong>as a part of tourism efforts <strong>by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is organized during the <strong>onset of the spring season in Kashmir valley.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are tulip flowers?<\/h3>\n<p>Tulips are a popular and widely recognized type of spring-blooming flower that belongs to the genus Tulipa. They are known for their bright, colorful, and cup-shaped flowers with a wide variety of vibrant hues, including red, yellow, pink, purple, white, and even multi-colored varieties. Tulips first grew in south-central Asia. People brought the flowers to Europe in the 1500s and later to many different parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/srinagar-tulip-garden-15-million-flowers-world-book-of-records-asia-largest-park-2424108-2023-08-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Pictures: Srinagar\u2019s Tulip Garden enters record books as Asia\u2019s largest<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, previously Model Floriculture Center, is a tulip garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}