Nepal Flowers
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Nepal and its plants
Filed under: Flora, Flowers, Nepal, Plants | Tags: Flora (2), Florist (3), Nepal (4), Plants | November 22nd, 2010
Nepal is a narrow, rectangular country at the heart of the Himalaya. Bounded by the cold, arid Tibetan Plateau to the north, and the hot, humid Indian plains to the south, Nepal is famous for its culture and spectacular mountain scenery. Eight of the world’s ten highest peaks are found within its borders, including the highest point on earth, Sagarmatha, 8,848 m (Mount Everest, 29,028 ft). Nepal is also home to an amazing diversity of plants: from stunted alpines battling with the harsh environments of the frozen mountains, to mighty trees of the steamy lowland jungles down at around 60 m, and all within 150 km (see Fact File for country statistics).
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The flora and vegetation of Nepal
Filed under: Flora, Flowers, Nepal, Plants | Tags: Botanical, Flora (2), Florist (3), Nepal (4), Vegetation | November 15th, 2010
Nepal is a Himalayan country, representing one of the world’s richest pockets in plant diversity. The presence of extreme ranges of altitude, climate and soil within a small geographical area has created a striking vertical zonation in natural vegetation and diversity in flora, with 75 vegetation types and 35 forest types. It is estimated that about 7,000 species of flowering plants exist in Nepal. So far, about 6,000 species of flowering plants and over 4,000 species of non-flowering plants have been enumerated from the country. About 5 percent of its flowering plants are endemic.
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Export potential and challenges for Nepal floriculture
Filed under: Florist, Import Export, Nepal | Tags: Export, Floriculture, Flowers, Import, Nepal (4) | November 15th, 2010
For the first time in history the government efforts were initiated for the development of the floriculture sub-sector during the Fourth Plan period (1971-75) with the setting up of Brihat Bagbani Centre (Floriculture Centre) in Sarlahi District in Southern-Central part of Nepal. This farm received technical and financial support from the Indian and Australian Governments. About 600 varieties of roses and 200 varieties of bougainvillea and other seasonal flowers were propagated during one and half decades of its operation.
So far the floriculture sub-sector in Nepal is thriving without a well-defined policy, strategies and any incentives toward strengthening competitiveness. The Master Plan for Horticulture Development (1991-2010) and the Agricultural Perspective Plan (1995-2015) are silent on floriculture aspects. It was only in the Tenth Five Year Plan (2001-2006) a general priority thrust was given to the development of floriculture, as one of the high value products. The document is still ambiguous on the roles of the government including institutions like the NARC and HDD, on R&D, technological upgrading, market promotion, HRD and other supportive measures.
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Cut flower business in Nepal
Filed under: Flora, Florist, Flower Shops, Flowers, Kathmandu, Nepal, People | Tags: Business, Florist (3), Flowers Shop, Import Export, Nepal (4) | November 12th, 2010
Nepal is rich in biodiversity having 6500 species of flowers, bushes and trees blooming in the uphill of the Himalayas to Terai. Due to the favorable climate, cheap labor, and suitable soil floriculture can be one of the prominent enterprises especially in hills and inner plains. For the promising development of floriculture the cut flower has played significant role in Nepal. Cut flower is an emerging business having a short history in Nepal. It started from Kathmandu and expanded to cities like Biratnagar, Dharan, Chitwan and Pokhara. For the upliftment of the cut flower and for the promotion of its business the FAN (Floriculture Association of Nepal) was established in collaboration with AEC (Agro-enterprises Centre) in 15th November 1992 with 10 founder members from nurserymen and people interested in floriculture at the C.D.O. office of Lalitpur district. FAN now having 208 members from all over Nepal. The floriculture wholesale market was established in August 31, 1998 by FAN.
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Lali Gurans – Songs
Filed under: Nepal, People, Songs | Tags: National Flower (2), Rehodendron, Songs | November 11th, 2010
There are numerous poems and songs referring to Lali Gurans. Among the most famous songs are Prakash Shrestha’s “Timi Lali Gurans Phule Jastai”, Kunti Moktan’s “Laligurans Banai Bhari” and Narayan Gopal’s “Ma Ta Laligurans Bhayechu” which uses phrases such as “I became a Lali Gurans; I blossom in the whole forest and in your heart; if somebody is there to look I will blossom in their eyes”. Women love to enhance their beauty by putting the flowers in their hair and blossoms are also used to decorate the gates and windows of houses. People of all ages delight in walking through the forests and picking bouquets of rhododendron flowers. This is especially true of those engaged in courtship who will exchange flowers as a token of affection. In Helambu District there is an annual Lali Gurans Festival during the peak flowering season.
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Lali Gurans – Our National Flower
Filed under: Culture, Flora, Nepal, People | Tags: Gurans, National Flower (2), Rhododendrons | November 11th, 2010
Rhododendron - Lali Gurans
Of the over thirty species of Rhododendron in Nepal the most renowned is Rhododendron arboreum, known as Gurans in Nepali. There are extensive and magnificent Rhododendron arboreum forests throughout the country ranging in elevation from around 1,400 to 3,600 meters. Rhododendron is a very widely distributed genus, occurring throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere and extending to areas in southeastern Asia and northern Australasia. It does not occur naturally in South America or Africa. However, the highest species diversity is found in the Himalaya.
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