Sunflower Smiles in Patuakhali
Farmers in Patuakhali have grown sunflowers together under an integrated plan and are earning more than in previous years.
Farmers in Patuakhali have grown sunflowers together under an integrated plan and are earning more than in previous years.
Passion fruit vines planted to decorate a restaurant in Shariatpur's Zajira are now bearing fruit that staff used to throw away as wild berries.
The banjui wildflower is blooming along roadsides across Mirsharai in Chattogram, spreading its scent and catching the eye of local people.
A Government Titumir College student who began gardening with a single Tk 350 plant during the pandemic now has plants worth lakhs of taka.
Two cousins, Esha and Lamia, have turned the roof of their home in Banasree, Dhaka, into a garden of flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Tahsin Ahmed, who came to Dhaka from Mymensingh after his SSC exams in 2015, started Ruma Nursery with just Tk 12,000 and now runs two nurseries in the capital.
An abandoned rubbish heap in front of Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital has been turned into a flower garden at the initiative of one of its doctors.
FlowersIn February 2020 Jagonews24 reported that gerbera, though a foreign flower, was among Bangladesh's top 10 flowers, with each bloom selling for Tk 30 to 50 and a grower able to earn Tk 60,000 to 70,000 a month.
A flower garden created and tended by its principal has made Puranbazar Degree College on the Dakatia river one of the most beautiful campuses in Chandpur.
Sonapati, a strikingly beautiful yellow flower also called Chandraprabha, blooms in large clusters at the branch tips in summer and the monsoon.
Gladiolus can be grown in any soil in the yard or on the roof, and with the right care yields about 24 tonnes of flower spikes a hectare.