Flowers can make you smile and also make your day, right? How about attending to the outbursts of amazing flowers and keeping your memory full of fun and excitement? Yes, there are several floral events are organized in India which are not only the best destinations for the countrymen but also the foreigners. In different parts of India, these events are organized.
You may have visited those places, but not during the time of flower festivals. Here are some of those exceptional floral events in the country that you should witness once. Read on to know more-
A List of Flower Festivals and Events to Attend in India:
1. Tulip Festival
To begin the list of the fantastic flower festivals and events in India, there is nothing better than the Tulip Festival in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. March and April are one of the best times to visit Srinagar and this outstanding festival adds more reasons to travel to Kashmir.
Each year, this festival drags a huge number of tourists from the country and overseas to visit the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden to become the eyewitness to the bursts of colours everywhere.
This is the largest tulip garden in Asia with more than 70 varieties of tulip flowers. And when all those blossoms bloom together, it is a paradisiacal sight to watch. Located at the foothills of the Zabarwan range, this tulip garden also gives you a mesmerizing view of the Dal Lake. Lots of cultural events, boat rides on the lake, outstanding local cuisines, etc. are also highlights of the event.
This festival is celebrated for 15 days and you can get enough chances to click on world-class photos here.
2. Rose Festival
Rose Festival is organized every year in the Zakir Hussain Rose Garden of Chandigarh in February for three days. Chandigarh itself is a beautiful city for its gardens and cleanliness. So, if you are in this city in February, you can enjoy a great vacation by visiting the grand rose festival.
This festival is hosted by two gardens, Leisure Valley and Zakir Hussain Rose Garden. While roaming around the garden, it is the myriads of colours and fragrances of millions of varieties of roses. Besides enjoying the heavenly beauty of the flowers, you can also take part in several events. Children can take part in the events and the Rose Prince and Rose Princess are selected from them.
While taking a stroll around the garden, you can enjoy your favourite foods and drinks, and also click some outstanding snaps over there. There is also the arrangement of a helicopter tour. You can enjoy the bird’s eye view of the floral garden and which is out of the world.
3. Ooty Flower Show
This wonderful flower festival is arranged in May at the Government Botanical Garden in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. Ooty Flower Show was first arranged in 1895 and since then, it is organized successfully each year.
This is a three-day event that includes a flower show, spice show, rose show, fruit show, and vegetable show. At the floral event, you will find lots of installations of flowers which are a complete visual treat.
If you want to visit Ooty during your summer vacation, you can arrange a trip in May to witness an outstanding flower show in the city.
4. International Flower Festival
When it comes to flower festivals in India, we can’t miss the dazzling International Flower Festival of Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim.
March and April is the time of floral outbursts in northeast India, especially in Sikkim. To make it more worthy for the visitors, the splendid and colourful flora is brought to the exhibition for the tourists this time. At this festival, you can witness more than 600 rare species of orchids and over 50 species of rhododendron.
Apart from these, the other attractions of this flower festival are numerous species of roses, gladioli, varieties of ferns, herbs, cacti, creepers, climbers, and so on. To make the festival spirit more ravishing, a food festival is also organized where you can taste the local dishes as well as several international dishes.
You can also take part in several activities, like river rafting. If you want to attend this flower festival in Gangtok, plan accordingly.
5. Lalbagh Flower Show
Bangalore is known as the city of gardens, so it is quite obvious that the city will arrange some top-class floral festivals every year. Lalbagh Botanical Garden organizes flower festivals twice a year- one on Republic Day in January and the other in August, on Independence Day.
You will be spellbound to witness the replicas of monuments, palaces, elephants, horses, royal soldiers, etc. of flowers. Those are the heightened forms of art.
The magnificent floral arrangements make the visitors surprised. Each of these events is celebrated throughout the week.
6. Kaas Plateau Flower Show
This is another mesmerizing flower show in India that attracts millions of visitors to get amazed. It happens from the late-August to the beginning of September in Maharashtra.
Kaas Plateau in Maharashtra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for being the home of more than 850 species of wildflowers.
If you plan to visit the place to get the natural beauty of the floral land with the exuberance of colours, make a plan after the monsoon. The valley looks fantastic this time with the colourful butterflies around you!
7. Dasara Flower Show
Dasara Flower Show is a yearly grand festival that is celebrated in Mysore. To be specific, this massive event is organized at Nishad Bagh in September-October. The main attraction of this floral event is the huge variety of roses and orchids.
Here, you get to see the rarest versions of these flowers that will make you awestruck. Besides that, the musical fountain is an additional attraction to this festival. Read More: Mysore Dasara Festival Celebration 2023 – A Complete Guide
This festival runs for 12 days and each event of this festival is outstanding. You can also attend the food festival, elephant processions, art exhibitions, and many more.
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8. Cherry Blossom Festival
Let’s travel again towards northeast India as this zone is full of flowers in summer and spring, and every day seems like a floral festival. Cherry Blossom Festival is organized in November in Shillong, Meghalaya.
During the daytime, it feels wonderful and romantic to walk along the cherry blossom carpet beneath the tree, while the nights are full of fun and excitement.
You can enjoy the live dance and music festivals throughout the city, have a food tour, go on guided walks, and also taste the local wine. The entire city keeps awake and will entertain you to the fullest this time.
Hopefully, you find your interest to visit the place as per the time of these festivals. Each of these festivals is a celebration of nature, colour, and life. Add some of those into your life and make it smooth.
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