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The Santiniketan Environment
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However,
Santiniketan today is a veritable botanists' paradise.
Plants, trees, creepers and orchids from various parts of India and
abroad have been made to flourish in this once
semi-desert. Rabindranath himself took a deep interest in planting trees.
He introduced the Vriksharopana, or tree-planting ceremony in 1928, popularising
the concept.
His son, Rathindranath, was a horticulturist by training and introduced
a number of new trees
and plants into Santiniketan. Fortunately, the Santiniketan community
in general shares
this interest in trees and gardening. The seasons are clearly marked in
Santiniketan;
one knows the end of one season and the beginning of the other with the
sights and
smell of blossoms in bloom.