Cactus Garden Panchkula

Although I am not a botanist or cactus specialist of any kind but still have been lucky to visit our Asia’s unique cactus gardens one of them is situated in Ratlam (Sailana) and another cactus garden near Chandigarh, India is the largest succulent botanical garden of Asia which is relatively new being established in 1987

The area covered: Giving a coverage of almost 7 acres and a vast variety of cactus at least above 2000 species. It consists of 3 greenhouses.

Cactus shows the life in the desert, and so does the colorful varieties presented by it. The Garden has 272 species of genus Mammillaria, and 160 species have been naturalized out the door. The magnificent plants of 'Aloe species,' Aloe ferox & other exotic species can be seen here. In low growing cacti such as Mamillarias, Astrophytum, Notocacti and several other species have been used in the foreground of the feature. Bonsai collection of succulent and nonsucculent plants has been created and gifted by J.S.Sarkaria. This educative collection displays different styles of bonsai. Garden has nine glass houses having a collection of practically all the known genre of cactus. Garden also has highly representative collections of Haworthias, Aloes, and Gasterias. Plants are also available for sale

Let me talk about what I really liked about this cactus garden

• ·         It has names displayed on cactus varieties.
• ·         It seems that this is still in development phase or things keep adding on to this garden. Which gives me a hint it will be even better if I visit it next time
• ·         They have done a smart usage of the landscape
• ·         They have associations of erudite class of professors and students of botany in development of this garden and that makes me a feel god

Some suggestions to make this place an even better tourist attraction

• ·         This garden lacks a professional guide who could tell the story of thorns.
• ·         If they could think of making a shade for visitors few places to sit under shade and admire beauty it would be a nice add-on.
• ·         I felt they should keep some plants for sale too as I was fascinated by few varieties and wanted to have them for my house and I had to come bare hand. A souvenir collection shop seems a smart idea to me in this situation.

Meanwhile, if you want to see what cactus is best suited for your garden this is the most recommended place to get confused and come to another wonderland

 

How to reach :

It is located at a distance of about 8 km from the city of gardens. Situated in the heart of the city of Panchkula,

Entry fee: INR 10

Dr. J.S.Sarkaria

National Cactus & Succulent Botanical HUDA Garden

& Research Centre, Sector-5

Panchkula

Manager : Dr.  NIDHI BHARDWAJ

Email : hudacactusgarden@gmail.com

Tel : 09855034722.