An afternoon at the flower nurseries of Swarupkathi

Swarupkathi (administrative name: Nesarabad) is a subdistrict of Pirojpur district, which is located in the southern division of Barishal in Bangladesh. Geographically Swarupkathi is located in the active part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river delta, which is the largest delta on earth. As a result, Swarupkathi is a maze of canals, surrounded by wide rivers at all sides.

A video created by me while travelling in the canals of Swarupkathi in 2018

Swarupkathi is popular among travellers of Bangladesh and abroad for the guava gardens, floating guava and vegetable markets, freshwater canal trips and also the wooden boat and timber markets. Swarupkathi is also known for the Sarsina Darbar Sharif, which is a religious institution established by Shah Sufi Nesaruddin Ahmed in 1915.

But there is another place which is gaining popularity among travellers for its beauty is the plant nurseries of Swarupkathi. These nurseries are located in mainly Alangkarkathi and Sangitkathi village. Although these nurseries mainly produce woody plants and fruit plants, during winter they get filled with colourfull flower plants, which is an incredible sight to see.

In December last year in 2021, I went to trip to explore the flower nurseries of Swarupkathi along with some of my family members. We started our journey from Miarhat, Swarupkathi at about 4 PM on a trawler. We travelled on the river “Shandha” and reached our destination in 25 minutes. Then we left the boat and entered one of the flower nurseries. The first nursery had many colourful flower plants and saplings which were arranged in rows. All of us were amazed by the scenery of the flower nurseries.

The nurseries of Alangkarkathi village are located on the side of Swarupkathi-Barishal road. We managed to visit multiple nurseries before sunset. One of the nurseries were most notable, it’s name was “Adarsha Nursery”. The word “Adarsha” means ideal, and truly that nursery was an ideal nursery because it was so well decorated and beautifully organised. No wonder that this well maintained nursery was awarded gold medel by the government officials.

Check out my review of M/S Adarsha Nursery on Google Maps

We purchased some flower saplings from the nursery. There were wide variety of plants in the nursery, some of them were rare and expensive too. After purchasing the flower plants, we returned to our boat to head back to Miarhat. On our way back, we stopped at Swarupkathi Bazar to buy sweets from Satkhira Ghosh Mistanno Vander which is a renowned sweetmeat shop in Swarupkathi.

How to go:

  1. From Dhaka: via Launch bound to Bhandaria from Sadarghat or via bus bound to Swarupkathi from Saydabad. You can also go to Barishal first via launch, bus or aircraft and then go to Swarupkathi.

  2. From Barishal: via bus bound to Swarupkathi from Nathullabad bus terminal.

  3. From Khulna: first you have to go to Pirojpur via bus from Sonadanga or Rupsha bus terminal. Then you have to take another bus to Swarupkathi from Pirojpur bus terminal.

Best time to visit the flower nurseries: December and January.

Click here to read my connect post about my visit to the flower gardens of Godkhali, Jashore, Bangladesh.

Thanks for reading the post. Write in the comments if you need further information about Swarupkathi’s beautiful flower nurseries and also write about how you feel about it. As the Omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading very rapidly accross the globe and as well as in Bangladesh, please take necessary precautions while travelling. Avoid unnecessary travels for now, maintain social distancing if possible and wear mask while being outside, take COVID-19 vaccine or register for vaccination. Stay safe everyone! :heart:

This post is part of the challenge Gems of the World - A Connect Travel Post Challenge started by @KashifMisidia

#GemsOfTheWorld #ConnectTravelChallenge

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Simply amazing, @SadmanRafid ,

Your post really surprised me and made my day. I can say You can write much better than me. All helpful information at one place!!! Fantastic. Flower nurseries of Swarupkathi looks so amazing by your wonderful photography. Keep going , and keep inspiring us.

Let me share my first “award” for my post to some of my friends here

@JaneBurunina @TusharSuradkar @SoniaK @NareshDarji @indahnuria @TravellerG @Nyainurjanah

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Dear @SadmanRafid

Thank you so much for sharing your travel experience and travel guide for go to there. All photos are really beautiful.

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Excellent writeup @SadmanRafid with the details.

I can imagine the joy of visiting a nursery since we have these all over in Pune where I live.

Pune has two rivers flowing right through the city and the confluence is in the middle of the city providing a lot of necessary water for the nurseries.

Hence Pune is also called the Garden city of India.

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The name Swarupkathi always reminds me of the floating guava and vegetable market. It’s a pity that I never could make it to this beautiful place when I was in Bangladesh. I always wanted to see the guava garden and the floating market itself. And after reading this post, I feel more interested in going there to see the nursery. It’s a beautiful post, indeed, @SadmanRafid . It would be prettier if you selected the image size to large instead of small or medium.

The video was great too. I didn’t that they have a guava park too. At some point of the video you let the background music stop and we could hear the nature. It sounded to calm. Great job done Sadman.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful place. Thank you @KashifMisidia for the tag, I would miss a great post if you didn’t tag me.

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“It would be prettier if you selected the image size to large instead of small or medium.”

See these are the benefits of tagging any mentor in any post, What I didn’t notice, you saw it @SoniaK .

Thanks for your valuable comments and suggestions. I hope @SadmanRafid would love it.

Shukriya :pray:

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Thank you all for your valuable comments and complements, I appreciate it.

I have got a lot of tips about writing great posts on Connect from your post regarding the challenge @KashifMisidia . I didn’t know that Connect has photo limit, so I started using photo collages from this post.

Thank you @TusharSuradkar for mentioning the geography of Pune here. @KamalHossenR vaia please pay a visit to the nurseries, some of these flower nurseries are located in Banaripara, Barishal too.

And about your advice @SoniaK , I couldn’t find any option to select the photo size as I am using Connect from my smartphone. Maybe it’s only available in the web version. Actually I didn’t have any idea about whether there is any option to enlarge photos, although the photos look big enough in the smartphone version of Connect website.

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First of all, thanks for tagging to “…Let me share my first “award”…” Post… Dear our @KashifMisidia Ji…

Hello fellow LG @SadmanRafid !!!

Happy to see you here…

Beautiful post with contextual photos…

Congratulations…

If show us your photos in Full Screen size, then this will be more attractive…

Swarupkathi…

Your Video …On the way to Kuriana - also is beautiful

Appreciate your efforts.

Regards with greetings…

:handshake: :heart:

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Hello LG @SadmanRafid

Kindly permit me… I would like to suggest the following to you:

I understand that your photo looks fine on your mobile, but many of us use PC (Laptop) to read & respond to your post - the small photos are less impressive compared to Full-Screen photos. So kindly use this method (Here) to edit your beautiful post & keep your photo in full size. I hope that will help you; in case if you need any further assistance to get your post edited, kindly TAG me while replying.

All the best

Hope this will help you.

PS:

Is the above suggestion is okay? Dear @SoniaK ?

Greetings

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A nice post .Kip it up bro .

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Awesome post.

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A nice post. Place also too much beautiful.

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Thank you so much @TravellerG for your help, I have changed the photo size to large from medium. As I use Microsoft Edge as the default browser in my smartphone, I couldn’t do it because the settings were not showing up. Then I had to do it with Google Chrome and followed your instructions in the post that you have given link in your comments.

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You are welcome, dear friend @SadmanRafid

Happy that I could be of assistance to you.

Feel free to contact me, if you have any questions/doubts - I shall try my best.

Most sincerely…

TG

:pray:

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Yes @TravellerG , that’s exactly what I wanted to say. Thank you.

Hi @SadmanRafid , what I wanted to say in reply to your comment, @TravellerG already said it. And I can see you have changed the image size in your original post as well. Trust me, they look so much better now. The flowers look so real and lively and those rasgolla and golabjams are literally calling me now. I must have missed seeing them first time when I saw your post. Good job!

Interestingly, your last picture got me start thinking about the word “sweetmeat”. This is such a kind of food that has nothing to do with meat, yet, we call it sweetmeat. I wonder why! So I started digging in and found out that sweetmeat is actually an ancient English word, where the word ‘meat’ is derived from ‘mete’, which means food. So in other words, sweetmeat actually means sweet food. So, why do we call it sweetmeat, instead of just saying sweets? What do you think @KashifMisidia ?

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I agree with you very much, dear @SoniaK …

The photos look very much lively -!!! Sure…

Thanks for your information about Sweetmeat… Sweet Food…

Regards

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Dear @SadmanRafid

Thank you so much for inviting me to Banaripara Nursery. I personally have another plan for the area.

Are you living there permanently?