The Royal Palm Rose Show held over three days concluded yesterday at Royal Palm, as a large number of flower enthusiasts from amongst the general public attended the show, looking immensely heartened by the large number of varieties, over 80 in number planted in 99 beds and totalling 14, 000.
Some of the extra ordinary varieties like uncle nazir, double delight, Baba de kuli, Benazir, teli, bobo, makan ti rose, Allama Iqbal and Quaid e Millat were appeciated by the experts and the interesting thing is that these varieties were all developed in Punjab.And the men resonsible for the amazing show were Col Jamil and Sabir Hussain.
A painting competition was also held on this occasion with categories for special children, other schools and colleges.Ayaz Ahmed topped amongst the special children, winning a cash prize of Rs.5, 000.In this category Yasir Abbas came second and was awarded a cash prize of Rs.3, 000 while Afifa Islam picked up the third p[rize, with cash of Rs.2000.All these prize winners are from Rising Sun School.
In the other schools category, Shaheer Hussain of Garrison School came first and he seems a wonder artist with a lot of acheivements to his credit.While he has topped in many exhibitions, lately his portrait of Queen Elizbateh was selected for display in London.Maham Tariq came second and Wasiq Ahmed was third.As for the college category, Zahara Asim captured the top prize.Sidra Aslam came second and Osama Sohail Khan was third.They are all students of NCA.
Another talented one of Punjab University, Hira Asim fetched the fourth prize.
At the conclusion of the Rose Flower Show, Professor Tawab, Chairman of Rising Sun School awarded prizes to winners in the presence of a very large number of flower lovers.
