Sunder Nursery to get ₹10cr ‘Garden House’ replicating desert, tropical habitats in India

Delhi’s Sunder Nursery is set to gain a striking new addition – a two-storey “Garden House” that aims to bring the ecosystems of India’s deserts and tropical forests under a single, carefully controlled roof. Conceived as a greenhouse-like structure inspired by iconic indoor gardens in the United Kingdom – predominantly London’s Kew Gardens – the project seeks to blend education, conservation and design in one immersive space. “Sunder Nursery already has an arboretum and micro-habitat zones. This will form a part of the micro-habitat zone and represent desert and tropical flora, essentially, replicating habitats of places like Kerala and Rajasthan. The aim is to teach students and show them other Indian forest and natural habitats from other parts of the country, not only here in Delhi itself,” said Ratish Nanda, CEO at the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), which manages Sunder Nursery.