Bangalore- The Garden City

Karnataka has had a history of Creating beautiful things, like in dance, music and sculpture , and the beauty shines through ages. Together with its heritage , the very first attraction of Bangalore is its flowering trees, and there are some blossoms to feast the eyes during every part of the year and during all phases of the seasonal change.

Bangaloreans have always been fascinated by flowers , and this shows through their  enthusiastically organised flower shows and in the way women adorn themselves with flowers.

The garden city title for Bangalore comes as much as the gardens, avenues , parks , traffic lights, etc within the city , as from the city itself being an entity that contrasts with its rural surroundings.

It is however the planned mix of big canopy shade trees, eye catching flowering trees , which gave Bangalore its deserved reputation of "The Garden City". 

It was Gustav Herman Krumbiegal and his string of able disciplines who invested urban horticulture with the character of landscape architecture.

Facts:

*TOTA , a kannada word which translates as garden, was by contrast “enclosed” and of 4 different kinds:

Tarkari Tota- the kitchen Garden

Tayngana Tota- the coconut garden (and other fruits)

Yellay Tota- Betel leaf garden

Huvina Tota- the flower garden (cultivated by locals who made flower garlands)

Some flowers like the marigold, jasmine, rose etc blossom all year round. These flowers find their way to other markets, homes and temples, but they also move around the city in women’s hair and on deities in vehicles. They are everyday adornments as well as marks of auspicious occasions and felicitations.