{"id":22050,"date":"2015-01-09T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T07:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=22050"},"modified":"2015-01-09T13:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T07:55:10","slug":"flower-show-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/flower-show-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum to host 40th edition of Flower Show from January 9 to 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sprawling lawns of the Kanakakkunnu Palace have once again turned into a veritable flower garden as the city hosts its 40th edition of Flower Show from January 9 to 15. Governor P. Sathasivam will formerly inaugurate the event on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 15,000 ornamental plants from different parts of the country and abroad will be on show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nearly 200 types of orchids developed through hybrid technology are among the big attractions this year. The highlight of this year\u2019s show will be the presence of Pop Diana, Arantha and Sonia, all hybrid varieties of orchid. Tulip, Anthuriam, Alstroemeria and liatris flowers imported from Thailand, Holland, and Bangkok will also be part of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from these, an aqua show featuring a variety of ornamental fishes would be organised with the help of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, the Fisheries Department and Matsyafed.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event is jointly organised by the Tourism and Agriculture Departments, the City Corporation, the Kerala Rose Society and the Kerala Agri-Horticultural Society.<\/p>\n<p>Due to lack of venue, the flower-show had to be cancelled for the last couple of years. The usual venue Kanakakkunnu palace was allotted for grand Kerala shopping festival following which the idea of flower-show had to be dropped.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 9 to 15<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time:<\/strong> 9:00am to 1:00pm and 3:00pm to 9:00pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Kanakakunnu Palace grounds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sprawling lawns of the Kanakakkunnu Palace have once again turned into a veritable flower garden as the city hosts its 40th edition of Flower Show from January 9 to 15. Governor P. Sathasivam will formerly inaugurate the event on Friday evening. About 15,000 ornamental plants from different parts of the country and abroad will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-22050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}