Sunday, April 15, 2018

Sunday Photos: Fern House, Ooty

Fern House, Ooty
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The Fern House in the Ooty Botanical Garden is a glass house we checked last year during the visit to Ooty, aka Nilgiris, is home to many species of ferns and orchids. This house (established in 1894) is dedicated to W.C. Mc. Ivor, in whose response the Garden has been developed to this stage from the then a patch of vegetable garden and wilderness of Shola and shrubs and the lower part as a swamp traversed by deep ravines.

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Mr. W.C. Mc. Ivor who had his training at the Royal Botanical Gardens, was able to transform the steep slopes into walks and terraces, lawns and flower beds for growing choice selection of plants. He also improvised ways and means by which he could reclaim the lower part of the garden and converted into undulating and sloping lawns with pockets of ponds left at convenient places to add chart to the landscape.

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We just took shots of the fern house from outside during our previous visit in 2008 since the house was locked. Last April there wasn’t much people visiting the garden and the fern house was also opened to visitors and allowed to take photos. Though these pictures are shot from mobile, as my camera was dropped down that previous night, I really liked the outcome and detail on ferns.

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My grandmother watching the ferns

10 comments:

Gosia said...

nive place love from poland

carol l mckenna said...

Beautiful place and your grandmother is beautiful ~ lovely photography!

Namaste,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)

Sandi said...

Those ferns look so healthy! Mine were always brown. I had to switch to Pathos. :)

Karen Lakis said...

This looks like a beautiful place to visit. Your photos really capture the color and detail!

eileeninmd said...

Hello, I love the ferns. Beautiful images. Have a happy day and new week ahead!

Destination Infinity said...

It's almost a decade since I've been to this place, should revisit sometime. Nice pics :)

Destination Infinity

Nancy Chan said...

Green is pleasing to the eyes. A nice place to visit. I have a few ferns growing in my garden.

Twilight Man said...

Your grandmother looks like a very kind lady with big hearts! It is written on her face.

I love ferns very much and surprised that they have such fern house in your country. We should have one since we also have a big variety which some grew up big like trees!!

Lady Fi said...

Fabulous shots! And your grandmother looks lovely!

stevevhan said...

I dont know what a fern house is and never saw one in my life. So this is really a cool addition to what i know! <3 very informative!