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Rose replica of golden throne to be eye-catcher at Dasara flower show

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Mysore, Oct 2, 2013: The Curzon Park, here, is getting prepared for one of the major crowd-pulling events of the Dasara festivities — Dasara Flower Show, where the replica of the famous ‘Golden Throne’ (Rathna Simhasana) of the Amba Vilas Palace, will be displayed this year.

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Last year, the show had ‘Ane Gaadi’ made up of roses and other flowers. This year, as many as one lakh roses (most of them yellow) along with orchids and other flowers will be used for making the throne.

Zilla Panchayat CEO P A Gopal, who is also president of the Dasara Flower Show sub-committee, said that to encourage and educate visitors about urban horticulture, various displays on vertical gardening, terrace gardening will be set up on the premises of the park.

As many as 8,500 different varieties of flowers pots will be used to decorate the archs and the pyramid structures. There will be a butterfly structure on the stump.

With various organisations’and companies participating in the flower show, the park will have a total of 75,000 to 80,000 flowering and vegetable plants.

Exotic plants

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The event will also have exotic vegetable plants from European countries.

Those interested in gardening can also get tips on soil conservation, tray gardening aside from growing vegetables, flowers and ornamental flowers, from experts. Photography and Bonsai trees competition has been organised for women.

Gopal said that based on the Chinese-model, the pyramid form on vertical garden will be introduced for first time in Dasara.

The event will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on October 5 at 4 pm.  The entry fee will be Rs 15 for elders and Rs five for children, this year.

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