Arisarmu - Southern part of Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region is not only dominated by beach tourism, but also a visit to a flower garden has been popular recently and it is something amazing.
If you are having an excursion in the southern part of Bantul Regency in order to see beautiful beaches in Samas' beach complex, you will see some flower gardens along Southern Ring road (JLS) where many vehicles are parked in front of them.
Because of my curiosity, after visiting Goa Cemara beach and Samas beach, I decided to drop in at one of the flower gardens, Nasywa garden, owned by Edi who plants "Sunflower", "Jengger Ayam" (Celosia) and "Kembang Kertas" (Zinnia Elegans) on his a thousand square meter land. The land used to be planted with chili. For resting the land, he tries to grow those flowers. It was surprising that many people liked it and came to have selfie or have their photos taken in his garden although it has just been opened for public for less than two months, so he would expand his flower garden, he said to me.
Growing flower plants which are suitable on the land in costal area that is mixed with sand is not easy. While Sunflower, Celosia and Zinnia Elegans are considered as flowering plants that can grow well on a coastal area. Actually, Edi, the owner of Nasywa garden who prefers to be called "Pak" (sir) to "mas". Both are used in Indonesia to call other males or to respect others because of their older age or more senior in status. He told me a lot about flowers, even though I was only familiar with sunflower as my mother planted it in front of our house when I was still a small boy.
Perhaps Nasywa Garden was still new and still being promoted, so there was no entrance ticket at that time, just paid for parking. And, in my opinion, the existance of the garden is not only provide more option for travellers or flower enthusiasts to experience a new tourist attraction but also to create jobs for local people who suddenly become parking attendants and food sellers at Nasywa Garden.
