Silver Jubilee flower show and exhibition that was inaugurated at Byculla zoo on Friday, January 31, 2020.
The MCGM gardens department holds a flower show and exhibition every year. Since 2016, the civic body has been doing it around a central theme.
Following themes are used:
2016: ‘Clean Mumbai’
2017: ‘Cartoon characters’
2018: ‘Aquatic creatures’
2019: ‘Indian classical music’
2020: ‘Icons of Mumbai’
Everyone has their favourite section. I love the cacti. Young people love the selfie backdrops. Trinidade heads for bonsai displays – full-grown mature trees but in miniature, some that fit in the palm of your hand. “They require so much patience to tend and the sense of calm they exude makes them so lovable.”
The flower show runs until February 2. But for plant lovers, the party’s only starting. Trinidade, like many others, head to a second show at Ruparel college, Matunga, organised by National Society of the Friends of Trees the following weekend. For all late-blooming flowers (and late-responding humans), it’s a treat.
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