Damascus-SANA
In the context of improving the aesthetic and environmental reality and mitigating the effects of pollution, Damascus Governorate is working to increase green areas, expand the planting of trees and ornamental plants in the city and revive it.
The director of parks in the governorate, Eng. Sumer Farfour, indicated that the directorate’s workshops began preparing an environmentally friendly garden in Shamdin Square, in Barkan El-Din, behind the Corner Mosque, in cooperation with the Directorates of Environment and Maintenance, where the appropriate soil was brought and settled to start planting it early next month.
Farfour explained that since the beginning of this month, the directorate has planted hundreds of trees, shrubs and ornamental plants in public squares, road sidewalks, knots and green areas, and rehabilitated a number of forests to turn them into areas planted with green meadow and plants.
He pointed out that the workshops have completed planting more than 300,000 roses and seedlings of ornamental plants produced by the directorate's nurseries during the summer period in public squares, balconies, roadsides and gardens, pointing out that the workshops continue to prune palm trees that take place every six months as it helps to revitalize them and maintain the aesthetic condition. In addition to pruning harmful shrubs and trees, cutting and shaping agricultural basins in balconies and public squares.
Farfour called for the preservation of public parks and green spaces and their plants and their cleanliness because they belong to everyone and because they are the lungs of the city and the only natural outlet for its residents, especially in the summer.