The Department will this public space a total of 13 different species of trees to enhance comfort and provide scenic value added A green screen with 17 ficus, reduce noise and visual pollution of the descent of the Highway
The Department of Environment, directed Adela Martinez-Cache, is conducting a Woodland Improvement Plan in the garden of El Malecon in order to improve and provide greater comfort to visitors and users of this large green space town of Murcia.
It is the first time in the last fifteen years, says Martinez-Cache, the Ayuntamiento de Murcia holds such an important tree planting in the garden of El Malecon.
Planting, and offer a greater variety of trees in the area, offers a landscaped garden value added by the presence of deciduous trees, which offer a different landscape according to the season.
The improvement plan involves planting trees 63 copies of a total of 14 different species (some of which still had not been present on the Malecon), that will provide a balance between shaded areas and the brightest .
To carry out the development of the improvement plan, the Department of Environment has conducted a study of the whole situation has established woodland planting criteria to enable a balance of the most luminous spaces and less.
This study was made taking into account the typology of existing tree: evergreen, semi-evergreen it and deciduous, and the location thereof.
We must also remember that this improvement plan is part of the Master Plan Maintenance El Malecón, a plan that allows continuous monitoring of the garden.
The species of deciduous trees to be planted on the Malecon are:
Fraxinuns angustifoliaFresno
Fraxinus odor ornusFresno
Cercis siliquastrumArbol Love
Catalpa bignonioidesCatalpa
Juglans regiaNogal
Melia azedarachLila of Persia
Populus albaAlamo
Ulmus minorOlmo
Morus albaMorera
Pistacia terebinthusCornicabra
Quercus fagineaRoble
Morus nigraMoral
Celtis australisAlmez
With these plantations, and improving the welfare of the users of the garden, also manages to offer a greater display of tree species that existed before and others that had never been present in this garden.
So far have already planted 22 copies and 20 copies today others will be planted.
This Woodland Improvement Plan in El Malecón has also included a new performance that aims to reduce the noise and visual pollution caused by lowering of the highway to Murcia, next to El Malecon.
In this regard, it will take out planting ficus benjamina screen a total of 17 evergreen, which have been planted 7.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia