Covai Flower Show 2011 – TNAU Botanical Gardens, Coimbatore
The fourth edition of Covai Flower Show (2011) is open for public viewing from today in the Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU) Botanical Gardens in Coimbatore. It seems, this time they are keeping it open for three days (from 29th to 31st of January 2011) as school/college students are expected tour this place on monday, a working day. Otherwise, its open only for two days – Saturday and Sunday as its difficult to maintain the flowers for a long time. Its open from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Entrance ticket is Rs. 10/-. So, if you are in Coimbatore, why not stop over there sometime?
The first thing to greet you in this edition is the “Nature in Miniature” plant exhibits which are miniature trees (some with even fruits) that have been grown for many years but still have a small size.
There was no dearth of flowers! After all, this is a flower show! I guess a lot of preparation should have gone in to getting all the flowers here and arranging them. Have a look at some of the flowers kept there for display.
There is also a collection of printed photos in display. It seems all these photos were taken in the TNAU botanical garden campus itself at various times. One particular group of photos with butterflies on flowers were interesting.
Apart from generic arrangements, they also had some special arrangements of flowers which were like tanks, elephants, ship, rocket, etc. I have published a few of them below:
I guess that was a good collection and the flower arrangements were quite well done! A real treat to the eyes 🙂 A small glitch was the presence of too many shops (a lot of them unrelated to flowers) which make us walk much longer! But otherwise, it was a perfect show!
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PS: You might also want to have a look at Lalbagh Flower Show (Bangalore) – January 2012 pictures.
Wonderful pictures DI 🙂 🙂 Looks like they are competing with famous Ooty flower show 🙂
I have seen both the Lalbagh Flower show and the Ooty flower show. And this was done almost in the same scale. But even I came to know about this only a few days back!!
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Beautiful,loved the bonsai plants 🙂
Yeah, they were called bonsai plants! I forgot the name and was thinking about it yesterday… thanks for reminding…
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Amazing!!!!! absolutely gorgeous captures …
I wish I could visit such a flower festival.
I have always wondered why they don’t have a flower festival like this in Chennai….
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For a place like Coimbatore, this is wonderful! Considering the weather – some of these are not really expected, but in hill stations!
I heard that most of these flowers and plants are brought down from outside places – like Ooty and some even from abroad. I guess these flowers and plants cannot be grown here.
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WOW is the word .. bonsai’s beautifulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Everyone seems to know Bonsai – this is the first time I saw them!!
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That’s some fancy arrangements….never seen those kind before, have to admit! 🙂
It seems this is the sixth edition, which means five similar editions should have been held for the last five years. Not many people know about it!
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Really beautiful pics DI.. I loved the rocket and the last one the most..
I too thought the rocket was very interesting. First you need to catch a plant like that – tall and long. Then cut it appropriately, then put on the coloured flowers…. huh, that’s a lot of effort! 🙂
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Hey Rajesh , Beautiful shots, I must say you made me nostalgic. Hey you came to my blog therefore you are mentioned in a thank you post on my page. Have a look!
Thanks once again 🙂
Yeah, I saw that – thanks for the same…. 🙂
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Feast for the eyes!
The bonsai plants look fresh… Normally, I feel sad seeing them.
The flower decorated elephant and her baby looks so natural.
Is it cool over there? All the flowers look so fresh!
Thanks for the pretty pictures, Destination infinity!
I went on the first day, maybe they are fresh because of that! I heard that many flowers are brought from outside places… Now the temperature is quite warm, but not hot – yet.
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Treat to one’s eye! It’s amazing to see the colored flowers beautifully arranged! I liked the last one so much!
I wonder how they managed to make that photo so realistically energetic!
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The Bonsais are good.
But why cutflower decorations?
All the wedding organisors are doing it.
I expected some exotic potted plants.
An institution like TNAU can do better.
Maybe there were, as I was not able to put up all the photos taken there… But yeah, TNAU should look to add to the variety and do more with each passing edition…
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it was treat to my eyes.realy superb.