Overview
- Lodhi Garden, which turned 90 on Thursday, was feted with a gardeners' fellowship lunch, an IIC discussion on the Aravalli, and NDMC sapling giveaways.
- The 80–90 acre park holds about 5,400 trees across 210 species along with four 15th-century tombs, ponds, a bonsai park and a bamboo grove.
- Volunteers said the gardening workforce has fallen from roughly 120–130 to about 90, which risks losing plant know-how that takes years to learn.
- Visitors and historians praised the garden as a rare open, unticketed space in Delhi that draws walkers, readers, families and photographers.
- Created in 1936 after Khairpur village was cleared, the landscape was redesigned in 1968 by architect Joseph Allen Stein, tying it to nearby civic landmarks.