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Galle Face Green contract awarded to Victoria Turf and Landscape Management

Victoria Turf and Landscape Management, which handles all turf and landscape related projects for the Victoria Golf and Country Resort and Rajawella Holdings has been awarded the contract to turf and irrigate the Galle Face Green in Colombo. This contract was awarded by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority.

The Marketing Manager of the Victoria Golf and Country Resort Lalindra Ranaweera said that 14 acres of this esplanade which is also known as the ozone of Colombo will be planted with 'Santana', a variety of Bermuda grass which has a high tolerance for salt and is hard wearing in daily usage.

Work has already commenced on the installation of a complete irrigation system with 450 pop-up sprinklers for the grounds and the palm trees which line the roadway.

The deadline for planting grass is end March 2007.

The expertise of Victoria Turf and Landscape Management is wide ranging and covers simple garden designs, supply of advanced trees, development of sports ovals up to constructing a complete golf course. They also have extensive grass nurseries of specially developed grass for this climate within the Victoria Golf and Country Resort.

The Galle Face Green project is overlooked by their former Director/General Manager Tony Witham who heads the Victoria Turf and Landscape Management. Tony Witham was a former S. Thomas' College cricketer and a tennis player of repute.

He later took to planting and made Aislaby Estate, Bandarawela a showpiece of a tea plantation with its tea fields resembling billiard tables using estate and village labour. With the nationalisation of the tea plantations he took wing to Australia where he continued the profession of horticulture.

 

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