The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has focused its attention to making Islamabad a city of flowers and laid multi-coloured flowerbeds on medians and roadsides.
The authority has started a special project to plant maximum flowers at roadside, medians and parks across the city along with announcing an amount of Rs 800 million for environmental upgradation of the capital. Talking to APP, an official of CDA informed that intermediary spring was going on and the CDA was currently planting three varieties of marigolds. This particular specie would continue beautifying the city till November and then they would be replaced by spring flowers of petunia, pansy and antirrhinum varieties.
CDA usually purchases seeds from authorised dealers of multi-national companies producing hybrid seeds through cross-pollinated plants. The size and colour of the flower can be changed through hybrid seeding process, enabling it to survive in a particular atmosphere, the official said. The Authority prepares nurseries of these flowers in its own 40-acre facility where around two dozen experts work round the clock.
