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Since green areas are a collective heritage of great social and cultural value, the Department of Environment, led Adela Martinez-Cache, continues to progress in achieving sustainable green spaces, more care, clean and comfortable for everyday life citizens.
Based on this objective, the Environment Service of the City of Murcia is promoting the use of new ground cover to replace grass and prairie grasses that have been traditionally employed.
The use of these new ground cover is more beneficial for the following reasons:
- They carry less water consumption compared with tussock-grass prairie.
It was found that water consumption with the new ground cover can be reduced to 50%.
- They have a greater capacity to grow in shaded areas.
In the municipality of Murcia there are many gardens with trees that provide ample shade areas that prevent current prairie grasses remain because they are plants that require too much sun.
With the new ground cover may cover green spaces far was impossible to cover, as they are kept in perfect condition in shady areas.
- Requires less maintenance because it does not require the continued harvest as is the case cespitosa grasslands.
- They offer a greater variety of colors and ornamental.
Dichondra repens
The Councillor for the Environment, Adela Martinez-Cache, recently visited the Garden of San Antonio, a green space that is located in the Santa Eulalia and is newly established.
It is ordered from a left orthogonal paths plantation areas at a lower level, in the tradition of gardens Murcia.
It is protected by closing drapes in metallic materials, ceramic and recycled products.
The Department of Environment has been installed in one of the lower bound of planting one repens Dichondra panel-growth of "carpet", very similar to the cepitosas, but with a consumption of water 4 times lower than the grass and the advantage that can grow in shade.
Difformis Vinca major and vinca are two kinds of creeping plant that grow well in shade and partial shade, and are some plants that require water consumption means being shrubs, but quite low when compared to a grass meadow grasses or .
The vinca minor forms a low, dense carpet, useful for covering small and large areas of shade and partial shade.
This type of plant is great for feet of trees or high-gradient slopes.
They also tolerate some dryness, relieved by few risks.
Ivy is an outstanding plant for its hardiness, as it can grow and survive in adverse conditions, plus it requires little water and grows in shady areas.
Are grown in many colors and leaf types is varied.
In addition to the Garden of San Antonio, the Department of Environment has conducted tests with the new ground cover in the following areas of the municipality of Murcia:
- Ivy and Vinca in the gardens adjacent to the Marquis de Corvera
- Ivy and Vinca on the Malecon.
- Vinca in the Artillery Barracks
- Ivy Square Cecilio Pineda
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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