Flower festival delights visitors

SOLAN: Shoolini University on Saturdayorganised its  annual flower festival. Hundreds of flowers were displayed   on the campus. Lt Gen (retd) Kamal Davar inaugurated the festival. He also launched an online stock and selling portal of the university  ‘The Himalayan Flora’.  

 There were different categories of plants like annual, perennial, foliage potted and hanging baskets. Ranunculus, calcealaria, salvia, antiritinum were among the popular plants that were bought by visitors in large numbers.  

St Luke’s School, Solan, and  District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) also  participated in a competition. St Luke’s bagged  the  first position. TNS