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Beijing in may seems to have been redefined by the season。
“training also becomes romantic” “every day like walking through the garden” ... ... To open up social media, and the beijing season's beautiful drawings are all over the ground, with all kinds of exasperations and glories. Hard road facilities in this megacities have become gentle and dynamic。
These "circles" were actually planted last summer. Plantation is still slow, and the flowers are open. After a full year of growth, in may this year, the season was finally full of anger. Behind this is the story of a greening of the city。
In 2025, the city of beijing implemented a green landscape upgrading project in conjunction with a major renovation of the four ring roads. “the four seasons of the month bloom and if the varieties are suitable and well maintained, planting can be seen for more than 20 years.” the chief expert at the plant institute of the beijing forest greening institute, feng hye, has made the monthly season more compatible with the greening of the green city garden than the short-lived seagulls, peaches and year-round grass plants。
The season that lays in them is low and thin, and a single one is squeezing, and the walls are sprouted. “the variety varies greatly from a 20-30-centimetre flower season to a plant that can grow up to four-and-a-half-metre height this month, and the results will be significantly reduced。
In response, the team produced a precise selection programme based on different road blocks in beijing. When the height of the bridge and the surface of the vase below the bridge is only 20 to 30 centimetres thick, the small variety of flowering seasons such as the “cinderland” “contract” “beijing red” red may is chosen. “these varieties may not be as impressive as single flowers, but they are large and flowery, and the bouquets that come from driving through them are very powerful.”
The central barrier of the road is set up to plant the vine this month, which has now grown to about two metres in beijing。
More crucial is the upgrading of varieties. In the past, the old species of the beijing common “spectrums” were blooming only at the top of the branches, most of which were green leaves. And new varieties such as florentina, the pink da vinci, and angela, the "mrs. Charlotte", are blooming from the base to the top. “one flower is not particularly large, but the whole wall has a strong visual impact.”
During the selection process, feng hui hopes that more soil will be available and the thicker it will be, but traffic safety must be given priority. The docking bridge has load limits and the size of the case must meet the bridge's safety requirements; the sections of the road that can break and green and those that can only fly are subject to repeated consultation with the transport sector. “the beijing city greening board and the city transport committee have met several times to argue that.” feng hui recalled, “the general principle is that the roads that can be grown on the ground should be as solid as possible, using a flower box without any conditions, so that they can be expanded a little more to show more flowers.”
Tang xiaochuan, deputy director of the town greening division of the beijing forest greening bureau, described the presence of 32,000 flowers in beijing on the 10 main bridges and the formation of a “air belt” of 664 million metres over the 190,000 monthly seasons. At the same time, the full four-ringed strips were broken and the green areas restored to approximately 100,000 square metres, resulting in a 15 per cent increase in the area greened。
The subsequent monthly season is equally delicate. The integrated drip irrigation system covers the main sections of the road and solves the problem of artificial water inaccessibility on the main road; prevention of disease based on years of research has made pre-medication crucial; and by cutting and managing the flowering period, the flowers coincide with the arrival of major nodes such as the 933 parade and the “71st”。
As a mega-cities in the north, beijing is hot and hot in the summer and cold and dry in the winter. The selection of seasons to withstand such environments is the most critical and difficult step。
“mostly seasonal transgenics are highly restricted by plant-based genotypes and the vast majority of varieties are unsuccessful. More than 99 per cent of the world's more than 40,000 monthly seasons are acquired through traditional hybrid breeding.” fung hui, since the 1980s, senior experts have been engaged in monthly seeding work, and classic varieties such as the “spectrum” “conservative carriage” have accumulated from that period。
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, feng hui entered the closed month breeding study. She sets clear criteria: comprehensive resistance, low-maintenance maintenance and continuous flowering. Fight against disease, insects, drought, sun, and cold, and adapt to beijing's environment; change the slab of old varieties of “spring pops, summer falls” and truly achieve four seasons of flowers。
In order to produce a “skin” variety of seasons, the feng hui team has worked year after year to pollinate more than 50,000 monthly seasons each year in experimental sites, sifting a seedling from the middle of the ocean, and conducting at least three or four years of open “survival tests” – not only of high cost and colour, but also of cold summers and winters in beijing under heavy management. It takes at least 8 to 10 years for a species to grow from a single seed to tens of thousands of seedlings。
Not only are the research institutes active, they work in partnership with enterprises. The pink season of the shining state trade bridge, the “contracts”, was nurtured by the flower innovation team of the chinese university of agriculture school of horticulture in cooperation with napo bay horticulture ltd. In beijing。
A short time ago, the national forest and grassland bureau focused laboratories were approved for the season and feng hui was the director. This is the country's only monthly “national name” laboratory, which brings together the beijing city park green science institute, the chinese academy of agricultural sciences institute of vegetable flowers and the nanyang city forestry science institute in henan province. “70 per cent of the country's monthly cropping season comes from namyang, where the weather is good and two years long can last four years in beijing.” feng hui said that with this platform, the integration of productive research and development would be closer, and there was hope for efficiency gains in the entire chain from seed development to production promotion。
Cultivation continues. The four new standby species of the feng hui team have been growing in the field for four years, waiting to move from a unique one to another in the future。
Mr. Tang xiaochuan said that beijing, represented by four circle roads, had built nearly 1,000 kilometres of monthly landscape. In november this year, the greening landscape of the four-ring road, with a total length of 65. 3 kilometres, will be completed on a full line. At that time, 713,000 monthly seasons will be linked to the world's first ever lunar line of “montermonth quarter chain”。
However, their ecological value is far greater than their visual impact. The grey cement bridge and hard surfaces, which were heavily inhaled during the summer, were regulated by the greening of the layers and local small climates; huge flowers provided precious sources of honey in cities, such as bees; and the capacity of the beijing carbon sink increased with green. More crucially, this long-lasting greening is moving beijing from “fast-food” to “conservative ecological greening”。
The reaction of the citizens was most touching on feng hui. “most of the seasons filmed by netizens are on social media screens, and our season's new varieties call has received strong voicemail voting and hot searches.” she was pleased and proud, “for more than 20 years she has been working in her season, and this year's fire has surprised me, and people really love these flowers”
It is also a vivid microcosm of beijing's overall drive to build a garden city. Beijing science uses limited space to carry out garden greening, suture greening in bridge space, on the outer surface of buildings and on roofs, to build small green lands, “gold edges”, to upgrade urban landscapes and transform green ecology into green kinetic energy。
“our wish is to make a green life, a good life, a daily life for the citizens of the capital, through the construction of a garden city, and to truly realize that every day of its life is `like a garden in our own home'.” according to the beijing park greening bureau, the director of the party, gao dawei。
