Garden sights in Tamil Nadu

1. A Map

   Botanical Gardens

   • Puducherry (Pondicherry), India
   • Sights › Gardens

   Established by the French in 1826, the botanical gardens form a green, if somewhat litter-strewn, oasis on the southwest side of town.

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   Thread Garden

   • Ooty (Udhagamandalam), India
   • Sights › Gardens

   Your appreciation of the Thread Garden rests on your love of irony and kitsch. If that threshold is low, you’ll be disappointed. If it’s decent, you may, if you’re in a good mood, enjoy the ‘miracle’ (official description and just slight hyperbole) that is 150 species of ‘plants’ from around the world meticulously re-created using ‘hand-wound’ thread. The technique was perfected by Keralan artist Anthony Joseph and the work took 50 craftspeople 12 years to complete, which is either very impressive or kinda sad.

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