Reporter Xu Lijia Correspondent Zhou Mengtao) In the past few days, in various parks and public green spaces in the city, garden maintenance personnel have been busy sowing rye grass seeds, carefully matching grass flowers of different colors, and dressing up the winter landscape. "Ryegrass is a cool-season grass that turns green in the winter, ensuring that the park's greenery is abundant. In the selection of road grass and flowers, we prefer to choose cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant varieties with high survival rate, and according to the characteristics of plants, combined with micro-terrain, to create a rich, dense and orderly characteristic garden landscape. Mei Hao, deputy chief of the first maintenance section of the Putuo landscaping project, said.
The reporter learned from the garden department that our district has continuously improved the level of garden management, promoted the upgrading of greening quality with refinement, and created a landscape effect of splendid spring, fragrant summer, rhythm of autumn, and strong green in winter. According to statistics, about 10 trees and shrubs were replanted in urban areas this year30,000 plants, about 8,000 square meters of lawn and wheat winter were replanted, and about 1.1 million grass flowers were replaced.
Depending on the season, we will change the flowers to suit the occasion and try to introduce some new varieties. Mei Hao said that after the introduction of new varieties, they will be cultivated and observed in the nursery for several months, from which plants with good landscape effects and adaptability to Zhoushan's climate characteristics will be selected.
In a greenhouse in Nanao Nursery, nearly 10,000 pots of daisies are waiting to bloom. "These daisies are in their early flowering stage, and they bloom in about a week before being transported to green spaces as spring flowers, and the flowering period can be from January to April, ensuring that the grass and flowers in the city are 'uninterrupted'. Mei Hao introduced, at present, the greening and maintenance area of our district is about 3.55 million square meters, and the nursery base is about 280 acres, of which Yingjiawan Nursery covers an area of about 135 acres, and Nanao Nursery covers an area of about 143 acres. Among them, in addition to cultivating seedlings, Nanao Nursery also cultivates seasonal flowers, with an annual production capacity of about 2 million pots, which can ensure sufficient and high-quality seasonal flowers in urban areas.