The Department of Environment has started the rehabilitation of the historic Garden of Floridablanca to allow residents of the Barrio del Carmen have a more attractive and accessible green area safer.
The most outstanding performance is the installation of three new playground elements (suitable for babies) that will complement the extensive area dedicated to the children of this garden.
Furthermore, it is proceeding with planting a total of 950 roses throughout the garden and five copies of the fronting south cypress.
In order to ensure the safety of the area are to eliminate two dry palm trunks and will destoconar moiety trunk Banana and to improve accessibility, it will proceed to remove the fence salvaparterre in the south .
This work is based on different visits made by the Councillor for the Environment, Adela Martinez Cachá, accompanied by residents and businesses in the area who have offered their suggestions for improving the garden.
Throughout 2013, the Parks and Gardens has been making different works continuously to maintain quality of this important green area.
Thus, considering the importance of playground for children 0-5 years old, 250 square meters, have performed the following actions:
Replacing the arid producing excessive dust, for another round without edges garbancillo size that allows security falls, just to put in the garden of South Round Lake and has given such good results.
Cleaning the existing drainage network under sandpit.
Modeling of the edges of the stump to prevent possible accidents.
Treatments lasur coated wood, given that the best system is estimated for the safety of the area.
Reinstalling the two pulleys that had an element of play.
In addition, it is noteworthy that the various plantations have been made during the past year.
In various areas of the garden almost 1,500 shrubs were planted in 2013:
200 Clorophitum comosum (Cintas)
80 Monstera deliciosa (Adam's Rib)
Aspidistra elatior 50 (Pilistras)
120 Brugmansia (Datura)
240 Gaura lindheimeiri
Clivia miniata 60
Abelia grandiflora 80
150 Convolvulus cneorum
Strelitzia 30 (Flower of Paradise)
300 Agapanthus africanus
Phormium tenax 60
40 Liriops
Similarly, in the spring-summer 2050 Petunias, Geraniums 400, 150 and 400 Begonia Tagetes, and autumn-winter 1200 Thoughts, 450 and 150 Poinsettia Cyclamen were planted
Moreover the system has been reformed and the irrigation network, reinstalling the irrigation system in the garden and connecting to the centralized network remotely (municipal wireless network).
Another action taken has been to improve the health status of trees and other vegetation, pruning structure conservation in large specimens, plant protection and fertilization treatments.
Also in the garden benches planks were sanded and treated with teak oil, graffiti were removed and pavements repaired
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia