A clock usually belongs on a wall, tower or public building. At Lalbagh Botanical Garden, the clock becomes part of the landscape itself. The Lalbagh Floral Clock is one of the garden’s distinctive attractions: a large clock incorporated into a landscaped floral display and surrounded by the well-known Snow White and Seven Dwarfs figures. Incredible…
The small stone watchtower on the rocky outcrop inside Lalbagh may look modest compared with the garden’s Glass House. Its historical importance, however, comes from what it represents. The Kempegowda Watch Tower at Lalbagh is traditionally identified as one of the four towers associated with Kempegowda I, the founder of Bengaluru. The towers were used…
Among the flowers, lawns and carefully maintained gardens of Lalbagh, there is one feature that belongs to a completely different chapter of Earth’s history. It is Lalbagh Rock, the large rocky outcrop commonly identified as Peninsular Gneiss. The garden itself dates back to the 18th century, but the rock is unimaginably older. Tourism sources describe…
Lalbagh Botanical Garden is one of those places in Bengaluru where a normal walk can turn into a history lesson. The garden is now known for its old trees, plant collections, Glass House, lake and flower shows, but its story began more than two and a half centuries ago. The garden was started in 1760…
