India Plans to Create Special Garden for Thai King's Birthday
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July 31, 2006 : Josephine Roque - All Headline News Staff Writer New Delhi, India (AHN) - In celebration of King Bhumibol of Thailand's birthday, India will create a special garden in the northern Thai town of Chiang Mai to be gifted to him. The country is one of the 30 nations joining the three-month international horticultural exposition to be held in honor of the king's birthday. The Thai king will turn 80 on December 5, 2007. He has been known to be keen in agriculture and handicrafts. The 200-square-meter landscaped garden will cost India $343,000 dollars. "The garden will reflect India's essence and spirit," Radha Singh, secretary at India's Ministry for Agriculture, told DPA. The New Delhi-based nongovernmental organization, the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, will manage the project that will see Indian elements such as canopies and sacred groves incorporated in the garden. Also in the plans are a garden of white flowers seen by moonlight, a stone-and-flower parterre, or ornamental garden, ringed with sandalwood trees and a square with a five-foot Bodhi tree sapling from Bodhgaya, a Buddhist shrine in India.
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