Greenhouses to visit in India

The Verrière atlas lists 14 greenhouses in India, built between 1889 and 2025.

India brings together two generations of glass houses. The first are a legacy of British-era botanical gardens: Bangalore's Lalbagh Glass House, whose foundation stone was laid in 1889, the glass house at Ooty, 2,200 metres up in the Nilgiris, and the great Palm House of the Indian Botanic Garden at Howrah, where a coco de mer planted in 1894 still grows. Since 2017 a new generation has appeared: Mysuru's round glass house, modelled on Lalbagh's, Davanagere's, billed by the Indian press as the largest in the country, and Chennai's air-conditioned Glass House, opened in 2024.