Welcoming the New Spring in Pohang City, Small Happiness in Daily Life ... Planting Spring Flowers

Placement of Spring Flower Pots at Four Bridges and Scenic Areas

To welcome spring, Pohang City has placed colorful and beautiful flower pots on major urban bridges and scenic areas, bringing small moments of happiness to its citizens.

Spring pansies planted on the POSCO Bridge.

The city reported that it installed 2,008 flower pots on four major local bridges?Yeonildae Bridge, Naengcheon Bridge, POSCO Bridge, and Mundeok Bridge?and 266 large flower pots in scenic areas such as Yeongildae, the terminal, Pohang Station, in front of City Hall, and Mundeok-ro.

Here, over 20,000 various flowers including pansies, violas, marguerites, and barley grown in the city’s own greenhouses are planted in different color patterns of red, yellow, purple, and white, offering citizens a beautiful streetscape.

The city enhanced diversity by planting eight colors of three different flower species on Yeonildae Bridge and POSCO Bridge compared to last year, and emphasized greenery by planting barley grown in greenhouses on Naengcheon Bridge and Mundeok Bridge.

To save costs on flower purchases, Pohang City plans to buy summer flower plug tray seedlings in mid-April and transplant them into pots in two greenhouses built in 2021, where they will be cultivated for a month. The cultivated flowers will replace the pansies that fade by the end of May and will be replanted in flower pots throughout the city.

Kim Eungsu, head of the Green City Project Group, said, “We will do our best to manage these spaces so that citizens can feel peace and happiness in their daily lives by encountering beautifully colorful flowers unexpectedly.”

On the 22nd of last month, Lee Gang-deok, Mayor of Pohang (second from the left), is planting spring flowers in circular pots along the Cheolgilsup Forest Trail.

At the end of February, Pohang City also held the ‘Spring Greeting Railroad Forest Care Event’ in the Railroad Forest, planting 1,000 violas in round flower pots along the walking paths as part of its forest care activities.

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