In recent days, citizens passing through Harbour Avenue may find that the flowers on the green belt have changed again: red cockscomb flowers, yellow sunflowers, unique wolftail grass... More than a dozen kinds of flowers and plants with the brightness and enthusiasm of early summer decorate the main road to welcome tourists entering Zhuhai from Gangwan Avenue.
The base produces 6 million flowers per year
"We change the time spent on the green belt of the main road about every two months." Zheng Zhuoquan, general manager of Zhuhai High-tech Zone New Height Flower Seedling Co., Ltd., said, "In order to keep the flowers in the main road green belt blooming all year round, and at the same time reduce the cost of flower planting, we all cultivate and plant ourselves, and each batch of flowers produces about 1 million plants." ”
The high-tech zone attaches great importance to the greening management of the main road, in accordance with the requirements of the fine management of Zhuhai city, and at the same time combined with the reality of the coastal science and education new city of the high-tech zone, the green management and maintenance are improved, while ensuring the diversity of flowers, pay attention to controlling costs, by arranging idle land for the custody unit, temporary land to cultivate flower seedlings, to ensure the self-sufficiency of the greening of the flower seedlings in the whole district, to meet the needs of municipal roads, parks and other public service landscape nodes greening and beautification, to create a beautiful high-tech.
On the west side of Tangqi Road in the high-tech zone, close to the bridgehead of the Qi'ao Bridge, a large piece of flat land is divided into many blocks, some are greenhouses, some are green, some are colorful, here is the cultivation base of Zhuhai New Height Flower Seedling Co., Ltd. in the high-tech zone, with a total of 90,000 square meters, responsible for providing "raw materials" for the greening management work of the high-tech zone.
According to Zheng Zhuoquan, the base production and cultivation of flowers in an area of about 86,000 square meters, the use of new flower seedling cultivation technology, from the time flower seeds, seedlings, finished seedlings for cultivation, a year can produce and cultivate 6 batches, each batch of about 1 million flowers at the time of production. It mainly cultivates cockscomb flowers, infinite sun sunflowers, wolf's tail grass, peacock grass, hairy crown grass, etc., and there are more than 40 varieties of flowers and grasses in the four seasons. "On May 17th, we updated the seasonal flowers on main roads such as Harbor Avenue, including infinite sun sunflower, wolf's tail grass, snake whip chrysanthemum, drunken butterfly flower, peacock grass, Gesang flower, imported periwinkle and more than ten kinds."
In addition to seasonal flowers, the base has also cultivated 10,000 trees and shrubs, as well as indoor green plants such as bonsai. "The flower seedlings we cultivate and produce can not only fully meet the needs of the municipal road greening landscape, festival flower decoration, intersection landscape node and flower sea node in the high-tech zone, but also provide some seasonal flower products to other green management units in Zhuhai."
New varieties of flowers are cultivated to improve the level of greening
In order to improve the effect of urban landscape construction, the New Height Flower Seedling Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the greening and management of the high-tech zone, is still working the flower varieties.
"Sunflowers typically only bloom for 15 days, but the infinite sunshine sunflowers we cultivate bloom for up to two months." Wu Xiquan, manager of the operation department of Zhuhai High-tech Zone New Height Flower Seedling Co., Ltd., said that in addition to conventional varieties, the new height flower seedling base has also continuously researched and developed new seasonal flower varieties, infinite sunshine sunflower is a new variety cultivated last year, and this year's new cultivation of torch flowers, ginger lotuses, garden chrysanthemums and so on. "We cultivate rhododendrons that bloom three times a year, are highly resistant to disease, and have fewer leaves when it rains, making them ideal for urban landscapes." Pointing to a large area of rhododendrons, he said that at present, there are 20,000 square meters of this rhododendron.
The base has a showroom, which is filled with a variety of newly cultivated indoor green plant products, including air bromeliads, plants, red stars, Yemeni iron, etc., as well as some glass landscape pots, wood bonsai, hydroponic landscape pots, etc.
Use landscape modeling to create a beautiful city image
Unique green landscape shapes are often impressive, making the city even more beautiful. The "Jinshan Yinshan is green water and green mountains" modeling next to the traffic lights of the silver pit on Harbor Avenue is like this, with a hundred day grass, cockscomb flowers, colorful leaf grass and roses to reflect the landscape of the landscape, imitating the mountain body combined with colorful streamers and the overall image of the clouds to express the golden mountains and silver mountains, imitating a girl holding a seedling in her hand to represent the green water and green mountains, the shape is vivid and unforgettable.
Jinfeng intersection of "development is the first priority", "talent is the first resource" and "innovation is the first driving force" modeling, with three gears to symbolize development, while matching a bud to represent the early stage of growth; with the character mind to represent talent, the image of the hand means to attract talents; with three light bulb shapes to represent new ideas and new ideas, with the swan take off to symbolize the power. The whole group of shapes coincides with the connotation of the high-tech zone's mission of innovation-driven development and building a talent highland, which is both pleasing to the eye and meaningful.
At the new height flower seedling base, not only is there a wide variety of flowers that attract the eye, but also a variety of flower pots. In addition to the commonly used ceramic and glass pots, there are also flower troughs dug out of a tree trunk, hanging pots made of several bamboo tubes, pots made of old tires, and flower pots surrounded by stainless steel.
After trying to reuse and make the best use of things, the new height is to carry out green management with such a management concept, maintain the green environment of the main road and the coastal city style, show the good image of the ecological civilization city, and create a beautiful high-tech image.
Source: Comprehensive Zhuhai Special Economic Zone Newspaper, Zhuhai High-tech Development