Gimhae City Prepares Spring Flowers Throughout the Downtown Area

Gimhae City in Gyeongnam is planting various flowers throughout the city to welcome spring.
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] Gimhae City, Gyeongnam, has decorated the city streets with colorful spring flowers.

According to the city on the 1st, to gift the citizens, who have been subdued by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, a bright spring, they selected and planted 360,000 flowers of 13 more splendid varieties than usual, including pansies.

They expanded flower paths using existing street flower beds, large flower pots, and bridge railings, and installed three-dimensional flower paths using sculptural facilities such as a saekdong pumpkin vine tunnel and flower walls.

Additionally, special flower pots were installed on the bleak light rail viaducts to add color. In some sections of the light rail, climbing four-season roses were planted to create a different kind of rose flower path.

Along the Haebancheon Stream walking trail, which is loved by many citizens, they sowed flowers such as poppies, cosmos, cornflowers, coreopsis, and sticky geraniums to create section-specific specialized flower paths, producing an atmosphere where the sense of the season can be felt vividly anywhere in the city.

Mayor Heo Seong-gon said, “Due to the prolonged COVID-19, our citizens’ hearts might feel like ‘Chunrae Bulsachun (春來不似春, spring has come but does not feel like spring).’ I hope that by seeing the bright spring flowers in daily life, warm spring energy will fill the hearts of our citizens.”

Meanwhile, the city has been producing all 1.36 million annual flower seedlings by itself, but to coexist with struggling flower farmers, from this year, it plans to reduce its own production volume by 30%, purchase the reduced volume from flower farmers, and gradually expand external purchases up to 50%.

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