Here’s some good news for hundreds of people visiting the sprawling Sanjeevaiah Park on Necklace Road everyday. The Buddha Purnima Authority wing of Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has embarked on a massive plan to develop a rose garden adjacent to the pond in Sanjeevaiah park.
If all goes well, the park located in the heart of the city will become the next favourite destination for many to take a stroll in the park or just spend some time.
HMDA has proposed to utilise services of Ahmed Alam Khan, an ardent rose lover, who has an impressive collection of hundreds of rare exotic plants. He also owns a huge rose garden with over 5,000 rose plants, all named and artistically planted in many acres of fields on the city outskirts near Vikarabad.
The garden at Sanjeevaiah Park will have a huge collection of roses including miniature roses, ramblers, hybrid tea roses, rosa santana, polyanthas, floribunda, rosa grandiflora, papagena and roses of unusual colours like green, black, red, pink, white, yellow, orange burgundy roses, among others. The varieties of rose plants that would be planted will be assembled from different parts of the country and abroad.
Speaking to City Express, BPA Officer on Special Duty (OSD), P Rajender Reddy said that exclusive rose garden will be established in about 5.5 acres of land at a cost of `3.25 crore. In this regard, Kishore Pradhan, a renowned landscape consultant, has prepared a master plan for the rose garden.
"The garden would be a visual treat for the visitors. To start with, the garden we are planning will have as many as 100 varieties of roses with 5,000 rose plants. Our objective is to make this park as the best park with many varieties of flowering plants. On an average 2,000 to 2,500 people visit the park daily and on holidays it will be double,” he said.
Before going ahead with the project, the HMDA held a series of meetings with the Rose Society of India and Hyderabad Rose Society for their expert guidance and assistance in implementing the project at the earliest.
“Work will begin from next month and the entire process will be completed by the end of August. Apart from developing the rose garden, the BPA will also take up construction of walking pathways for visitors. The separate walking path will not only help people to walk safely but will also ensure that visitors do not walk on the grass,” Rajender Reddy added.
A separate entry fee to the rose garden will be instated. The collected amount will in turn be utilised for the maintenance of the garden, he added.