This summer in Irkutsk more than 460 thousand flowers will decorate 40 city parks and squares, and in total 104 flower beds with an area of over 9 thousand sq. m. will be landscaped. Work will begin at the end of May, first the central flower beds will be prepared for City Day. This year more than 90 kinds of flowers will be planted, and the design will be in a patriotic theme, with the tricolor, the St. George ribbon and floral stars.

More than 460,000 flowers will decorate 40 city parks and squares this summer. In total, 104 flowerbeds are planned to be landscaped this year, with a total area of more than 9,000 square meters.
The chairman of the urban improvement committee of the Irkutsk city administration, Yevgeny Drokov, noted that the landscaping will proceed according to plan, and flower seedlings will begin to be planted at the end of May. First, the central city flowerbeds will be landscaped. This must be done by the City Day celebrations.
- Today we inspected all the greenhouses and assessed their high readiness. In the fall, it is planned to plant tulip bulbs so that next year in the spring, during the off-season, when the main flower seedlings of annual flowers are not ready, the flowerbeds at the "Eternal Flame of Glory" memorial will be decorated with these flowers, - said Yevgeny Drokov.
The director of MUEP "Gorzelenkhoz," Dmitry Romanov, explained that in 2016 more than 90 species of flowers will be planted. The design will be dedicated to a patriotic theme, presented in the form of tricolor flowers and the St. George ribbon, and the flowers will be arranged in the shape of stars.
As the Irkutsk city administration press service reported, more than 17 million rubles will be allocated for landscaping work, which includes the cost of planting material, planting annual flower seedlings, caring for flower beds and flowerbeds, planting trees, trimming hedges in parks and squares, as well as watering.