Atthe end of summer and in early autumn, the Colorful Flower Field of 14,000square meters in the airport area of Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone shows agolden scene.

Thisfield, where rape flowers and verbena bloomed in spring and summer, now unlocksthe mode of sunflower sea earlier. Under the sunshine, the sunflower field isdazzling, attracting many citizens to enjoy the flowers and take photos here.

Theflorescence of the sunflower field, which is open to the citizens for free,lasts about one month.

Sunflowersof a large area are blooming quietly

Makingthe field a golden sea

Underthe sunshine, numerous yellow circles come into view

Inthe breeze you may enjoy the smell of sunshine

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Laboriousbees are gathering nectar

Beautifulbutterflies are dancing in the field

Livelychildren are playing happily

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Underthe blue sky with white clouds, the golden sea of sunflowers contrasts finelywith the greenbelt beside.

Together with the “Rainbow” walkway crossing theflower sea, the whole flower field is like a beautiful landscape.“Thetotal area of the Colorful Flower Field where the sunflowers field is locatedis about 56,000 square meters. With the season change, citizens can see purple verbena,pink sedum spectabile, red pansy, golden sunflowers, and other plants forming acolorful sea of flowers.”

According to the urban environment administration ofTianjin Port Free Trade Zone, the currently planted sunflowers belong to an ornamentalvariety.

Compared with ordinary tall sunflowers, this variety is shorter, witha plant length of about 1 meter and a flower disc less than 20 cm in diameter.Like Winnie the Pooh, they are very cute and thus called “Toy Bear Sunflowers”.“Last year, the sunflowers bloomed in September. In this year, due to the earlyplanting and heavy rain, they bloom earlier,” an officer of the urbanenvironment administration said.

Itis learned that the Colorful Flower Field belongs to the characteristiclandscape area of the “Ecological Green Corridor” project of Tianjin Port FreeTrade Zone. In recent years, the Zone has continuously improved the quality ofgreening by implementing the development strategy of ecology first, andscientifically worked out greening plans.

At present, the green coverage of theZone is 40%, and the per capita park green area is 12.5 square meters. In thisyear, the Zone plans to implement 17 greening projects, with total plannedgreen area of 4,310,000 square meters. Besides, it will vigorously promote theconstruction of key greening projects to build the Zone to an international ecologicaland energetic new city suitable for both business and living.