I have a little roof-top garden. When I first saw orchids on a street stall of  Dhanmondi Residential area, I just fall in love with orchids. Attractive colors, shiny petals and small to medium sized flowers just made me crazy. I started to collect orchids plants from Dhanmondi, Agargoan and Mirpur nurseries.Soon it became my passion.Each year I visit  Brikha Mela in Agargaon to collect seedlings of orchids.

I have set up a Matcha (bamboo roof) and placed net over the roof. Orchids need shadow to grow and bloom.Orchids also need plenty of air. In forest orchids grow on trees.Some orchids also grow on ground. The Dendrobium orchid is common in Dhaka's nurseries. It is also low priced. 

I started my roof-top garden with Dendrobium and now I have a collection of almost 25 species of orchids. This hanging plants make me happy everyday. When my mood goes down, I just look at the flowers, their mind warming colors and brightness, deep greenish leafs give me strength. 

 Just look at the above orchid.It is called 'The dancing dolls' orchid. If you closely observe the flower, you will see that little girls wearing yellow Gagra ( Indian dancing custom) dancing extending their hands above their heads. 

Catellya orchids is a medium to large sized orchids. It's native land is Thailand.Catellya orchids are used to decorate houses, offices and hotels in Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines. It is also called 'Cut flowers'. 

Brikho Mela or Tree fair is now an annual fair in Dhaka City,which takes place in Agargaon through June.People from every corner of the city visit this fair especially the tree and plants lovers come here frequently. The main attraction of the fair is trees-from tiny seedlings to grown ones with fruits.

I have a roof-top garden.In the garden I have variety of  trees such as Guava, lemon and kamranga (starfruit) etc.Roof-top gardening has became a hobby for some house-owners in Dhaka city. A roof-top garden needs large containers ( drums) and good soil and plenty of  hybrid fruit trees.

The fair contains various stalls of  fruit trees and flowers. Home decoration flowers such as orchids,palms,money plants are also available here. Some stalls display Egyptian sweet fig, longan, dragonfruit, passionfruit (also called Tang) and avocado trees.Jambura, tetul, sofeda and mango are popular items in the fair. People feel delight when they see small trees bearing fruits and flowers. Taking a selfie with trees or flowers became a hobby. 

I  mainly visit orchids flowers stalls. Depto orchids stall in the fair exhibits some common orchids which can survive in the home conditions such as Dendrobiums,Vanda,Fox tail,Cattleya,Phalaenopsis etc. Orchids are high priced. You have to bargain with the sellers.Usually a Dendrobium orchid costs around 250-500 taka and a Phalaenopsis may cost 1000 to 3000 taka per piece. The nursery also exhibits seedlings of  the Dendrobium orchids.

Those who have no scope for roof-top gardening try to buy fancy flowers plants,Cactus and varieties of money plants. If you are tree lovers,this is the fair you must attend.    

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I made a tour plan with my family members two months ago and booked Ocean Paradise Hotel and resort from Dhaka.The purpose of our tour to celebrate the Bangla New Year in Cox's Bazar. Ocean Paradise and Resort is one of the luxurious hotels (5 stars) in Cox's Bazar.  We started our journey from Kalabagan Bust stop and reached  Cox's Bazar at 10 am morning .

When we arrived in the front of reception desk of the hotel, the hotel was fully occupied. Bangla New Year celebration was going on the ground floor's lobby. We checked-in our rooms and became fresh.The rooms were furnished and well decorated with modern luxurious items. After taking shower we went to the lobby. The lobby was full of guests and outside visitors.There were a number of stalls in the lobby exhibiting various fancy goods. Some exhibited food items such as pithas and cakes while some exhibited fancy dresses. People wore traditional Bangla New Year's customs such as Punjabi and sharee.Children were running here and there out of joy.The hotel was well decorated with flowers. Traditional Panta Bhat ( watered rice) and fried Hilsa fish were served among guests.  The atmosphere was very much charming. A troop of singers were singing Robindranath Tagore;s song-Asho Hay Boishak, Asho..Asho

I  and my daughter rosa suddenly visited Muktijudha Jadughar ( Liberation War Museum ) at Agargoan in Dhaka. It was a sunny day and we started for the museum at 9:30 am. The museum was newly built. It is a huge building. We arrived at the gate of the museum at 10 am. The entrance is free for everybody. Here is some information taken from the official website of Liberation War Museum.