Vol. 10, Issue 2, Part B (2024)

This paper examines people’s motives for urban gardening during the pandemic waves of 2020 and 2021. Interest in this practice has often ebbed and flowed in response to changing socioeconomic conditions and depended on positive effects in terms of social integration, community and individual health, urban regeneration, and food security. Any landscape in the hotel adds on the value to the property. Not only it adds on to the environment, but it also adds beauty to the hotel property around it. A nicely maintained garden with well-manicured lawns and lush green plants and hedges attract the guest in a five-star hotel. There are various types of garden like flower garden, woodland garden, rock garden, water garden, herb and vegetable garden and specialty garden like roof garden, scented garden, etc. This study focuses on the present trends of the type of garden present in the hotels of Delhi and the type of plants used in these gardens. The objective of the study is to analyse the characteristics of gardens present in the hotels of Delhi. To list the plants used in the gardens in the hotels in Delhi. The research design for this study was phenomenological, qualitative research. The study was conducted in five five-star hotels in Delhi. Structured Interview and observation techniques were used for data collection. Interviews were conducted for Horticulturist/Horticulture In-Charge, maintaining the gardens. Inductive method was used for analyzing data. The study focused on the characteristics of gardens and plants present in the gardens of five-star hotels in Delhi. The findings also projected a list of plants which are generally used in the landscape gardening of five-star hotels in Delhi. The results of this research will assist the Landscape Gardener and Horticulturist in developing new hotel landscape. This study will also highlight the unexplored areas where further work may be done in hotels. Not only the hotels but also the nurseries will also get benefited by getting a list of plants present in hotels so it will improve the supply of plants to the hotel and reduce the time gap which is in there for maintaining the gardens. Further research may also be done by scholars on the topics like developing ornamental gardens in hotels, irrigation and other maintenance aspects of gardening followed in five-star hotels in Delhi. An analysis of these criteria shows that historic garden management literature focuses on describing the gardens themselves, with few studies interested in the people supporting them. Future research should follow recent policy documents’ lead and pay more attention to community value and involvement.