Thread Garden at Ooty is located by the side of North Lake Road, opposite the Boat House. This beautiful garden is created by Anthony Josheph with the help of 50 skillful and proficient craftsman. This garden is a first of this type that is so colorful and lovely.
It exhibits some of the most magnificent and exquisite collection of artificial flowers and plants.
To create this wonder one has not used a stitch of a needle or any other machinery. Stiff cardboards are used for flowers and petals, steel and copper wires are used for stem. Along with this they generously used variety of colorful threads to create these visual delights.
More than 400 different shades and plain natural colored embroidery threads have been used to create artificially made flowers that remain fresh for a long long time.
It has wonderful display of flowers, plants and lawns fabricated entirely from thread, canvas and wire. They look very natural and fresh forever.
The Botanical Garden at Ooty is one of the must visit tourist places. This garden has many beautiful flowers and some of them are here:
You can also find carious birds in the garden.
We came across many birds during our visit to Ooty. We spotted many water birds while boating in the Ooty Lake. One of them is Coot.
Coots are small water birds. They have predominantly black plumage with red to dark red eyes and colored bills.
They are omnivorous, and they mainly eat plant material along with small animals and eggs.
There are many roses of different colours and sizes at the Government Rose Garden at Ooty.
They differ from each other with very minute differences. Here is a glimpse of colourful roses.
The lake located in Ooty is one of the major attractions in the city. The lake offers boating facilities to the visitors for a nominal fee. It is an artificial lake constructed by John Sullivan, in 1824.
The lake is formed when the water flowing down mountain streams in the Ooty valley was dammed to occupy an area of 65 acres. The lake is surrounded by Eucalyptus trees and a railway line used by Nilgiri Mountain Railway runs along its shore.
Originally it was used for fishing, but as it diminished in size, it was converted into tourist spot by the authorities to restrict encroachment of the area.
The kids and adults equally enjoy the boat rides here. One can around in the lake with the choice of their boat such as Paddle boats, Row boats, and Motor boats.
Also one can also see water birds in this lake.
We came across many birds during our visit to Ooty. We spotted the small beautiful bird Nilgiri Flycatcher in the Botanical Garden.
The colour of the body is dark steely indigo blue with some violet-blue on the forehead and darker lores. It has long tail with two blue central tail feathers and the dark brown and edged with indigo lateral feathers. The wing feathers are dark brown with a narrow outer fringe of blue.
They diet includes small invertebrates and some fruit, particularly berries.
This beautiful bird is found mainly in the higher altitude shola forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.
There are many roses of different colors and sizes at the Government Rose Garden at Ooty.
They differ from each other with very minute differences. One of them is in purple colour here.
We came across many birds during our visit to Ooty. In Botanical Garden we spotted the small bird Velvet-fronted Nuthatch moving all over the tree without being quite in one position. It was very difficult to track it as they are very active.
This lovely bird is characterized by a big head, short tail and powerful bill and feet. The pretty bird is violet-blue above, with lavender cheeks, beige underparts and a whitish throat. The bill is red, and there is a black patch on the forehead.
It is a very noisy bird. It has unique ability to climb down trees. They feed on insects and spiders.
They are mostly found in southern Asia from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka east to south China and Indonesia.
This temple in Ooty is located near the market area of the city. It is dedicated to Mariamman, the Hindu Goddess of rain. The Goddess is considered to be a form of Kaali, and is also referred to as Mahamaayi or Seethala Gowri.
The entrance tower of the beautiful and colorful. The tower has sculptures of diety in her various forms.
The temple festival is celebrated in the month of April and thousands of people celebrate it with great fanfare.
We came across many birds during our visit to Ooty. One such bird we spotted in the Botonical Garden is Indian Blackbird.
It is a small bird that has has black plumage; yellow eye-ring, bill. They feed on wide range of insects, earthworms, seeds and berries. It feeds mainly on the ground, running and hopping with a start-stop-start progress.
It is seen mostly in India and Sri Lanka.
The Botanical Garden at Ooty is one of the must visit tourist places. This garden has many beautiful flowers and some of them are here:
Here is a bee hovering near the beautiful flower.
The Botanical Garden in Ooty laid on the lower slopes of Doddabetta peak is divided into several sections. The garden covering an area of around 22 hectares is laid down in 1848.
The entrance of the garden leads into an extensive lush green lawn of Kikiyu grass.
Here one can also see a fossilized tree trunk. There are several lawns with flowering plants, several plots of flowering plants, a variety of medicinal plants.
Ascending on the slopes of the hill it has a terraced layout. The garden is home for several exotic and indigenous, of plants, shrubs, ferns, trees.
The flowers in the garden are treat to the eyes. The flower beds and ponds in the park are very well laid and one can spend here hours soaking in the beauty of nature.
There are many roses of different colors and sizes at the Government Rose Garden at Ooty.
They differ from each other with very minute differences. One of the them is in red color is here.
During our visit to Ooty, we came across many colourful birds. Our trip was made memorable by the presence of beautiful birds. One such colourful bird we saw was Hoopee.
It is a medium-sized bird that is 9.8–12.6 inches long, with a 17–19 inches wingspan. It is easily recognized because of its colorful feathers. It has cinnamon to chestnut in color, with white and black stripes on the wings and tail.
It has prominent, upright crest on its head. It has long and strong black beak that is curved and adapted for the feeding on the ground.
It eats different type of insects, small reptiles, snails, frogs, seeds, berries and other types of plant materials.
This church in Ooty is located on the road towards Mysore. It is one of the oldest church in the district.
The construction of this 19th century church was initiated by the then Governor of Madras Stephen Rumbold Lushington. The foundation for the same was laid in 1829.
Unfortunately the gates of the church were closed when we visited it and had to satisfy ourselves only with external views.
There are many roses of different colors and sizes at the Government Rose Garden at Ooty.
They differ from each other with very minute differences. One of the them is in yellow color is here.
