To welcome Chinese New Year, 25 new flowerbeds and floral installations are being constructed in the city's main parks and roadside green spaces.
The theme of the floral installations highlights the arrival of the Year of the Tiger. Many cartoonish tigers dolls, red lanterns, and New Year ornaments have been used to decorate the floral installations.
Pansies and violets are used extensively in the installations, along with silver-leaf chrysanthemums, kumquats, tulips, daffodils and other vibrantly-colored plant varieties. In the downtown area, over 800,000 new potted flowers replaced older plants.
To add to the festive cheer and spruce up the roadsides, city landscaping lawns, including over 5,000m^2 of green space along Zhongshan Road, have been renewed with in-season plants and flowers. Their brilliant colors brighten up Ningbo's winter look and prepares the city for a jolly holiday season.