Blooming spectacular

In addition to the blooming cole flowers in spring, the park plants sunflowers and lotus in the summer and grows spider-flower and chrysanthemum in the fall.

Huahai Park is just one of many Fuzhou destinations that are attracting a large number of daily visitors because of the different kinds of beautiful blooming flowers.

Niugangshan Park, formerly a trash mountain, has now become a hot spot for photography among locals and tourists after the park planted a large area of pink muhly grass at the end of 2017. Located in the city's Jin'an district, Niugangshan Park covers an area of 51.7 hectares and quickly became popular among visiting shutterbugs and social media enthusiasts when the large sea of pink flowers was found by local photographers and published online during last year's National Day holiday.

The muhly grass usually begins to bloom in September or October and lasts for more than three months.

According to Zhang Wenyuan, an official with Fujian Provincial Department of Forestry, both Fuzhou city government and Fujian province years ago made it a priority to develop such floral displays, with an aim to create green spaces and beautify the eastern metropolis and the entire province.