New Delhi: Lieutenant governor TS Sandhu Tuesday directed New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to build an indigenous tulip propagation cycle, expand seasonal blooms and prioritise native species by preserving and enriching the city’s ecological heritage.
The hi-tech nursery, spread over around 300 square metres, facilitates year-round multiplication and propagation of plants irrespective of seasonal variations.
“Around 24,000 tulip bulbs will be planted across NDMC areas, while the rest will be used for trials to improve their size through controlled growth conditions,” said an official. Appreciating NDMC’s efforts to promote local cultivation of tulips, Sandhu said the initiative could serve as a model for other agencies. “It has a production capacity of 18,000-20,000 plants per cycle, with four cycles annually,” said officials.
The civic body has stored around 40,000 tulip bulbs harvested over previous seasons at the nursery and plans to use them for the upcoming flowering season as well as further trials to improve bulb size. For the forthcoming season, NDMC plans to procure approximately 4.7 lakh tulip bulbs — three lakh for NDMC and 1.7 lakh for DDA areas. Tulips, introduced in NDMC areas during 2017-18, will also be planted at prominent locations. LG also reviewed the functioning of NDMC’s Cactus House, which has around 400 specimens of different varieties of cacti and succulents.
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