53,000 plants, cuttings and seedlings are produced each year in the municipal greenhouses of Thionville. Enough to flower and green the city which, in this area, has developed a real know-how rewarded by obtaining a fourth flower. Nestled in lush greenery, rue des Corporations, the nursery is both a place of storage and cultivation, a place where all the plants are pampered, whatever they are, intended to compose the massifs that will embellish the city. .
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These multiple compositions of seasonal plants, perennials, grasses, bulbs and shrubs are then distributed throughout the town, favoring the diversity of tones, volumes of heights and graphics, promoting the development of small fauna, and emphasizing the local cultural and religious heritage.
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More perennials and fewer annuals
Throughout the year, and over the seasons, city entrances, neighborhoods and parks see their perennial, annual or both flowers evolve. “We tend to diversify the beds with shrubs. We put in a little less annual plants and more perennials, which allows us to obtain fuller beds while saving time thanks to different maintenance,” says Flore Burgard, director of the living environment at the City. And to specify: “A perennial massif settles in time while the annuals, very colorful, it explodes”.
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In the municipal greenhouses, the thousands of young plants are waiting to be transferred and come to adorn the city according to a plan that varies from one year to another. “The choice of flowers is made according to the weather, the temperature”, continues Flore Burgard. This year the trend will be blue on the banks of the Moselle and orange in front of the town hall to energize the whole. “We are going to start planting after the Ice Saints, from May 20,” says the flower manager in Thionville.
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Rainwater
Here nothing is lost, everything is recovered. Whether it’s plastic pots, recycled from one season to another, or even plants that are torn from beds and put back in pots to spend the winter warm in greenhouses or to be taken from cuttings. Ditto for watering which comes exclusively from rainwater collected in a large tank. “This allows us to water the crops and to fill a good part of the summer the tank trucks which water the flower boxes distributed in the city and the villages districts”. In a few days, the uprooting of the plants in place in the beds will begin before the gradual establishment of the brightly colored annual plants. Notice to amateurs, a visit to the municipal greenhouses is scheduled for Friday, June 3 (on registration on the city’s website) with the possibility of making a planter on site and benefiting from the advice of professionals.
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