Sahyadri Devrai Palwan Rock Garden
Stone Meets Soil at the Heart of the Beed Devrai
At Palwan in Beed district, where Sahyadri Devrai's flagship plantation has been growing since 2017, a new chapter has quietly taken shape. The Palwan Rock Garden brings stone, soil, and indigenous species together within one of the foundation's largest and most loved Devrais — turning a section of this vast plantation into a living showcase of how the Sahyadris truly look in the wild.
Palwan is a place that has earned its reputation through years of patient work. Across forty hectares of once-barren Marathwada land, more than a lakh indigenous trees have been planted, nurtured, and protected since 2017. The Rock Garden adds a new dimension to this Devrai — a designed landscape where native rocky-terrain species are showcased among carefully arranged stone formations, celebrating a side of the Western Ghats that is rarely seen and even more rarely conserved.
01 — A New Chapter in a Flagship Devrai
Within one of Sahyadri Devrai's largest and oldest plantation sites, the Rock Garden adds a designed, focused landscape. It is the Palwan Devrai's next evolution — from grove to grove plus garden.
02 — Hardy Native Species, Showcased
The garden brings together indigenous species suited to rocky, shallow-soil terrain — the same kind of plants that quietly thrive on the ridges and slopes of the Sahyadris. Stone and soil are designed to host them together.
03 — Marathwada Meets the Western Ghats
Palwan sits in Beed, a Marathwada district shaped by dry, demanding terrain. The Rock Garden bridges this drier landscape with the texture and species of the Western Ghats — proving that ecology travels well when planted with care.
04 — A Place to Walk and Witness
For visitors who come to Palwan to see one of Maharashtra's most ambitious Devrais, the Rock Garden offers a quieter, more intimate space. It is where the scale of the plantation gives way to the detail of individual species and stones.
- A dedicated rock garden within the Sahyadri Devrai Palwan site, featuring native rocky-terrain species.
- Conservation of indigenous plants that thrive on shallow soil and stony slopes of the Sahyadris.
- An expanded experience for visitors and volunteers at one of the foundation's largest Devrais.
- A long-term ecological asset that protects a less-celebrated part of the Western Ghats ecosystem within Marathwada.
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