Vladivostok's Green Spaces Team Begins Planting Flowers in City Flowerbeds
Vladivostok blooms as 260,000 flowers transform the city's parks and streets
Employees of Green Vladivostok, the city's municipal landscaping service, have begun planting flowers in urban flowerbeds. The first to be refreshed was the central flowerbed at Revolutionaries Square, where 2,500 petunias were planted, according to the city administration's press service.
Workers prepared the soil at the regional capital's main flowerbed before planting annuals on the morning of April 28. The central bed is now fully covered with petunias, which will provide continuous blooms in the heart of the city.
Olesya Bokhan, a forewoman with Green Vladivostok's Leninsky District team, says spring plantings are one of the organization's most beloved tasks. She notes that all staff have the necessary experience and can plant up to 5,000 flowers in a single shift.
Following Revolutionaries Square, flowers will be planted across other city spaces. Petunias and other annuals will appear along Admiral Fokin Street, Korabelnaya Embankment, Victory Park, the Bagration Circle, the Lugovaya area, and many other locations.
Liliya Ostyukova, deputy director of Green Vladivostok, clarified that this year's flowerbeds will feature several traditional annual varieties: petunias, catharanthus, begonias, geraniums, and salvia—totaling 260,000 plants.
Ostyukova added that the city began preparing for spring as early as autumn, when 41,000 tulip bulbs were planted. The tulips are now beginning to bloom across Vladivostok's districts, complementing the newly planted annuals.
For several years, the city's flowerbeds have combined annual flowers with shrubs. Alongside petunias and other annuals, landscapers plant cotoneasters, spireas, forsythias, junipers, and other shrubs. This approach helps compositions retain volume and remain visually appealing even after the flowering season ends.
Beyond flowerbeds, Vladivostok plans to expand its green spaces this year with additional plantings. Parks, squares, and other green zones will see 5,000 new perennial herbaceous plants, as well as roughly 30,000 trees and shrubs.
