Government Horticultural Garden is located on the mettupalayam – ooty highway at distance of 1 Km from the first hairpin bend. The garden was formed in 1900 this garden is situated at 360 mts above sea level, on a spread of 8.92 Hectares.
About the Farm:
Fruits such as Lime varieties, Guava, Pomegranite, Jack Fruit, Grapefruit, Panner Guava, Aromatics spices such as Clove, Nut meg, Pepper, Cinnamon, Brinji Leaf, Vennila, Mongoosten, Duriyan, Lychee, Long sot, Rumbootan, Egg plant (Muttai palam), Decorative plants such as Crotons, typenpokia, Tracina, Pycus varieties and Arelia, Agalipa, Monstria. Decorative creeper varieties are also grown and distributed from here.
Horticulture and plantation crop inputs for coffee, cocoa, arecanut are growned here for sale. In total of 2.5 lakh trees and saplings grown and sold from this farm
How to Get There:
By Bus: 17, 13 from Mettupalayam and all Ooty, Conoor Bus.