PanjiM: Goa Raj Bhavan will attract attention with biggest bonsai art garden with a vast variety of trees which will give it the numero uno status in the whole country.
Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai has expressed his wish to have the biggest bonsai garden in the country at Raj Bhavan and has already started work towards it.
The Governor had recently gone to Delhi to invite President Draupadi Murmu to Goa for the publishing ceremony of his 200th book.
When contacted, he said “There is mention of plants being grown in cauldrons and plate-like shaped objects in Ayurved and Indian epistemology which was called Vaman Vriksha. Although originated in India, it was spread to China and Japan by Buddhist monks ,” said Pillai.
China and Japan developed this art and today bonsai trees are majorly exported by Japan.
“To give push to this art here, a Vaman Vriksha Udyan has been commissioned in the garden of Raj Bhavan which has 52 different types of Vaman Vrikshas. This number will be taken to more than a hundred and preparations are underway to make it country’s biggest bonsai garden with a vast variety of trees. This work will be done under corporate social responsibility funds of companies,” he added.
He also informed that President Murmu has been invited for the publishing ceremony of his 200th book and once Rashtrapati Bhavan finalises the date of her visit, the details of the program will be declared.
Gov visits banyan
Tree at Canacona
Governor Pillai had recently visited a banyan tree, the biggest in the country, at Partgal Mutt in Canacona which is spread across 3 acres. “A book based on my 41 visits to the heritage trees will be published soon too. The biggest known banyan tree in the country was spread across 2 acres and so, the tree at Canacona is now the biggest and could be turned into a tourist attraction,” added the governor.
