As the cool winds of winter warm to the caress of the summer ahead, purple fluted blossoms explode on hundreds of jarcanda trees across the city. By April, colour purple bows to the orange-red narcissism of the Gulmohar and by May, the tabebuia preens an exhilarating yellow, not a leaf in sight. Every month flowering trees and shrubs paint a palette of myriad colours in serial consistency, entitling the city to hold on its sobriquet of Garden City.
Cubbon Park, reminiscent of New York's Central Park, sits bang in the middle of the city, 300 acres of it, with Bal Bhavan- the amusement park, a toy train, two museums and an aquarium. The park was laid out in 1864 by Richard Sankey, the chief engineer of Mysore, and named it in the honour of the commissioner.
The towers of the UB city overlook the park with its statues of Chamarajendra Wodeyar, queen Victoria and King Edward VIII, which liberally dot the park. Its partly formal landscaping imaginatively integrates natural rock out croppings with grooves of trees and giant bamboos.
There is a cast -iron bandstand and a public library housed in the neo-classical, red painted, Sheshadri Iyer Memorial Hall. The century club nestles alongside. The tennis stadium lies within the park with the Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium and the Kanteerava Cricket Stadium located on the periphery.
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