Rose Garden, Filmy Chakkar

The Government Rose Garden also known as the Jayalalitha Rose Garden, Centenary rose park and Nootrandu Roja Poonga is located in the Vijayanagaram of Ooty. It was situated at an altitude of 2200 meters. 

This park was established to celebrate the centenary(100th anniversary) flower show in the Government Botanical Gardens in May 1995. The flowers are arranged in five arched farming levels covering 4 hectares. The garden is maintained by the TamilNadu Horticulture department.

Significance:

This rose garden is visited by thousands of tourists throughout the year, even in winter. The garden is spread across 4 hectares of land and contains the largest collections of roses in the country including miniature roses, hybrid tea roses, floribunda, ramblers, black & green roses and many other varieties.

Initially, there were 1919 varieties of roses with 17,256 rose plants and now there increased to more than 20,000 varieties of roses. It is one of the largest collections of roses in India. The collection of roses includes Miniature roses, ramblers, Hybrid tea roses, Yakimour, Polyanthas, Papagena, Floribunda and roses of unique colors such as green & black. 

The rose garden received the Garden of Excellence Award for being the best rose garden in South Asia. This garden is one of the 35 gardens worldwode to have received this award.

How To Reach:

Ooty bus stand is the nearest bus stand to this rose garden at a distance of around 2 KM. You can take a local taxi to reach the rose garden from bus stand.