Saturday 27 December 2014


HOTEL - 1 ::

GEM ROXY HAS 140 VARIETIES OF CACTUS, SUCCULENTS AND ORCHIDS


BY P S SUNDAR


                   Tourists visiting Nilgiris this winter have an additional opportunity to see one of the largest collections of cactus and succulents.

“This is welcome addition by Gem Park Hotels and Resorts in Ooty.    It has among the best maintained flower gardens which has been receiving prizes at the annual Flower Show conducted by Tamil Nadu Government.    Its addition of cactus and succulents is now helping tourists enjoy greenery all through the year.  Horticulture department is encouraging private participation to keep Nilgiris green throughout the year”, Joint Director of Horticulture, Nilgiris, N Mani told me.

“We have now 140 varieties of cactus and succulents and there are nearly 400 plants.   We maintain the exhibits in ‘ Gem Roxy’ poly-house to create the favourable temperature even in winter.  Foreigners enjoy the presentation.  We also get biologists conducting study on these rocky plants”, Gem Park Resident Director Ismail Khan said. 

This photo of mine appears in The New Sunday Express today (Dec 28, 2014)::


A glimpse into the other exhibits at Gem Roxy ::




Some visitors enjoying the display::


This is the entrance to the poly-house ::


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10 comments:

  1. P S SUNDAR27 December 2014 at 21:52

    Excellent plants, exclleent photos and excellent article ...

    D RAMALINGAM,
    CHEF,
    GATEWAY HOTEL COONOOR..

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  2. P S SUNDAR27 December 2014 at 23:38

    Sheetal Gupta, Pragya Jain, Reshma Sait and Jgadeep Raju like this.

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  3. P S SUNDAR30 December 2014 at 19:31

    K G Veeraraghavn (Dubai), Hariprakash Nair (Deputy Director, Tea Board of India), Charles Corfield (reitred Forest officer), G Premanand (Gen Sec YMCA, Coonoor), Balasnakari Sivakumar (Chennai), PS Srikrishnan (Karur), Jesuraja Bakthan Daniel (florist), Benedict Edward (Coimbatore) like this.

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  4. P S SUNDAR30 December 2014 at 19:33

    Dear Sundar,

    You have covered the Cactii presentation of Gem Park Hotels. This certainly is a new feature for The Nilgiris but I am not sure how visitors
    to Ooty could become aware of them and see them easily. Thank you for the extremely interesting coverage of our beloved The Nilgiris. I thrive on
    such real vignettes of The Nilgiris.

    Trust this finds you both in good cheer.

    Affectionately,
    Harshavardhan

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  5. P S SUNDAR30 December 2014 at 19:35

    Coonoor municipal Commissioner P Johnson has shared this article in his Facebook page "Johnson Packian"..

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