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MUMBAI Newsline - Dated 2/3/2002

Prizes for the best gardens

THE Green Thumb Landscape professionals won five prizes for the best gardens in various categories during the 43rd Annual Vegetables, Fruits and Flower Show and the Garden Competition organised by the National Society of the Friends of the Trees co-sponsoredby Tree Anthority, BMC and SNDT University, held at SNDT University, Juhu Campus, on February 23-24.

Thumbs Up! - Dated 13/03/2004

A Correspondent, Andheri

S KUMAR of the Designer Gardens and The Green Thumb has once again bagged several top prizes at two prestigious Open garden competitions in Mumbai. For several consecutive years S Kumar and his firm have garnered prizes for the best-maintained traffic island and several other categories.

The pioneers of landscaping and designing in Gardens, S Kumar started his company the Green Thumb more than two decades back. Today his two firms including The Designer Gardens are the leading landscape contractors and horticulturists in Mumbai.

Specializing in professional landscape, planning, designing, installations, renovations and maintenance. In fact it was S Kumar who pioneered the idea of tuning Mumbai from a concrete jungle to a beautiful green island.

One of his foremost projects was The Haji Ali circle, which was a traffic island, designed maintained and created by him. He has been foremost in encouraging companies to adopt traffic Islands and turning them into green spots. Their nurseries and studios which designs and creates the landscapes have carried out many Prestigious projects, traffic islands, industrial gardens, residential complexes, terrace gardens, hotel gardens, bungalows, gardens etc.

In his constant need to innovate and create he has introduced several novel ideas of designing gardens and landscapes.

When more than 25 years back kumar started with idea of starting a business in landscaoing he was looked at with disbelief.

Not withstanding the pessimism he went ahead and went on to create some of the most beautiful gardens in homes, factories and traffic islands.

He has sucessfully turned hardcore industrial factories into peaceful and inspiring environment for workars.

Apart from The Haji Ali Traffic Island he has also created the triangular traffic island and footpaths at Nariman point opposite the Oberoi Towers. Others include the traffic islands at Churchgate at Asiatic, one at Tardeo and the Dr. Ambedkar Garden. His traffic Islands for several years have won best prizes in all categories.

Kumar has designed several factor and industrial gardens for Britannia, Ceat, Paper products, Camlin, Wockhardt, Asiatic Departments Stores, ITC limited, Bharat petroleum, Hotel Orchid, Government of Daman, ONGC, Shipping Corporation of India, Hindustan lever, Indian Oil, CIDCO, BMC, Hotel Centaur, Grindlayas Bank, amongst more than hundred others.

He created Bal Thackeray's Ramadham, the old people's home at Khopli, including his personal bungalow.

He has also designed and created gardens for the Sultanate of Oman. Hailed as one of Mumbai's Foremost landscape designer, his specializations in traffic islands, gardens for hotels and Industrial factories has changed the face of landscaping. He has constantly encouraged the need for green spaces in the city.

Dated of Interview - 24-2-2004




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