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Happen to visit Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, commonly known as Blue Mosque, few weeks back. The grandeur of this strikingly beautiful and imposing mosque is such that one is absolutely overwhelmed. And I was pleasantly surprised to see a large no of rose beds in the Mosque lawn. The roses were very healthy, almost all were scented and had huge flowers, mostly.



Sultan Ahmed Mosque, located right infront of Hagia Sophia, is an imposing first sight.




All lawns around the mosque have rose beds planted with quality roses. There is a large no of standard roses also, some of which have almost become a tree with thick trunks. Have a looks at few pics.

















































Some of the roses pictured above are in Topkapi Palace.

Thank you for taking me back to 1984/5,when I was lucky to visit these.

beautiful and charming roses ..and what is temp there nowadays.

Minor sb, you are most welcome.

Hamad sb, temp in Istanbul those days was around 26-32*c.
Regds

KBW,how can I be a minor now when I was in mid/late 30s then? Please consider upgrading.
Or you believe in dictum' dil to bacha hae ji' & stays ? ha ha ha

munir wrote:KBW,how can I be a minor now when I was in mid/late 30s then? Please consider upgrading.
Or you believe in dictum' dil to bacha hae ji' & stays ? ha ha ha

Munir bhai, my apologies for misspelling your name. Nowadays I am mostly posting from my cell phone and I observed that auto correct somehow changes Munir to my minor every time. My fault Sir.

It reminds me my visit to Istanbul last November, roses were not at bloom, but i have seen Beds of tuberous Begonias , Hydrangeas and strange kind of bouganvilla , will try to post a few pic to know more about thoses bouganvillas.
Have you visited Spice Market to purchase bulbs ?

KBW wrote:

munir wrote:KBW,how can I be a minor now when I was in mid/late 30s then? Please consider upgrading.
Or you believe in dictum' dil to bacha hae ji' & stays ? ha ha ha

Munir bhai, my apologies for misspelling your name. Nowadays I am mostly posting from my cell phone and I observed that auto correct somehow changes Munir to my minor every time. My fault Sir.

Absolutely no problem, brother.It was in lighter vein only to share some smile with you. Keep happy smiling.
@ Adnan, is it in or around the Covered Bazar?

@ Munir Sahab,

the one which is covered and shown in most of the movies these days is GRAND BAZAR, the one iam talking about is near GALATA TOWER , it has abundant variety of bulbs/tubers.It is called Egyptian Spice Bazar.

ah.... near Galata Tower. Went to that area but somehow missed this bazar. Too bad