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| After more than more than a year since its opening, more than 644,950 units of plants have already left the municipal nursery plus another 250,000 pending release | For this Christmas, the public gardens of Cartagena will have 250,000 new plants from the Municipal Nursery, one of the Parks and Gardens services of the Cartagena City Council launched last August 2019. "We are going to decorate the neighborhoods and councils with the flowers that come out of these greenhouses, so that society can enjoy the great work it is doing from the Municipal Nursery", said the councilor of V a Publica, Juan Pedro Torralba, who He also explained that it is a nursery where reuse prevails, "for example, the land removed from the Isaac Peral Submarine roundabout has been brought to the nursery to reuse and plant with it." Likewise, the reuse of bio-waste and its composting is carried out to become substrates.

The nursery, located in the Ronda Transversal, next to the Nueva Cartagena urbanization in the San Antón county, has work tables, seedbeds, pots and containers, localized irrigation and greenhouses. Apart from the production for the reforestation of public gardens, another objective of this project is the social activity that moves the people involved.

In addition to the officials and workers of the gardening company, the nursery offers work to a Special Employment Center, Astus.

Likewise, the nursery offers specific training workshops to other associations and groups, La Huertecica and Red Cross volunteers are currently collaborating. For his part, the director of the Nursery, Miguel Guill n, has remarked that "although much remains to be done, the greatest satisfaction is when someone tells us that they have found work thanks to having started in nursery workshops or municipal gardens" . After more than a year since its opening, more than 644,950 units of plants have already left the municipal nursery, plus another 250,000 pending to leave.

"Every month it is producing over 49,000 plants, which means that the municipality has better parks and gardens," said Torralba. PRODUCTION PROGRAM The production program serves several lines and seeks both the development of a more commercial plant, such as a Mediterranean plant and trees line and a third of indigenous plant production, For which it works directly with the old Municipal Nursery, a plot managed by the Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE) with which, for example, work has begun to support the establishment of a network of pollinators. The technician Andr s García clarifies that genera such as Antirrhinum, Petunia or Lobularia are grown.

Also native species such as Asteriscus maritimus, Anthirrinum majus, Calendula officinalis, Digitalis purpurea, Anthemis nobilis, Cytisus sphaerocarpa, Cytisus scorparius, Coronilla juncea, Lygeum spartum, Stipa tenacissima, Pistacia lentusternis, Bellishamnus alaniscus, Bellishamnus alaniscus, Bellishamnus alaniscus, Phlomis purpurea, Ballota hirsuta , along with other types of succulent plants, carpets and some urban details of the Christmas flower plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima). NEW NAME FOR THE NURSERY The nursery is not an end, but a complementary tool of a public service that continues its productive journey, but which, if it continues like this, could become another local institution.

At the moment, its name is already being processed as "Gregorio Bacas y Velasco Municipal Nursery" in honor of the former director of the Royal Botanical Garden of Cartagena, at the end of the 18th century.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena