Flowering variety: transform 345,000 summer flowers Vienna!

On June 8, 2025, Vienna planted over 345,000 summer flowers to promote biodiversity in the city and create a colorful cityscape.
On June 8, 2025, Vienna planted over 345,000 summer flowers to promote biodiversity in the city and create a colorful cityscape. (Symbolbild/MW)

Flowering variety: transform 345,000 summer flowers Vienna!

Wien, Österreich - The city of Vienna blooms! Over 345,000 summer flowers will be planted this year to turn the streets and squares back into a colorful sea of ​​flowers. The first plants have already been used in over 500 "exchange -floral beds" - a real festival for the senses. 5min reports that The selection in the current summer flower selection is particularly easy to care are adjusted.

Among the new flowers you can find the magnificent tinie-Zinnia Elegans 'Oklahoma Gold', the bright colored nettle-Coleus x Hybrid 'Copa Nevada', the striking Goldmarie-Bidens Ferulifolia 'Efraims Gold', the Elegant Garden-Sprach candle-Gaura Lindheimeri. Indian flower tube - Canna Cannova 'Yellow F1'. A special highlight is the red lamp cleaner grass - Pennisetum x Advena 'rubrum'. This selection, which is therefore like a real range of colors, not only supports the city beautification, but also biodiversity.

sustainability and biodiversity in focus

The Wiener Stadtgarten is not only dedicated to aesthetics, but also ecological sustainability. Around 136,000 square meters of grass and perennial areas are maintained. dunav emphasizes that summer flower planting pursues a central goal: strengthening biodiversity in Vienna. Different types of flower are combined in harmonious mixtures to attract as many insects and breeding birds as possible.

Jürgen Czernohorszky, the climate councilor, thanked the city gardeners for their tireless efforts. Around 500 informative tablets along the plantings provide information about the types of flowers used and their properties. This transparency promotes awareness of the importance of urban green.

urban nature as a valuable habitat

The function of urban green has only become important in urban planning in recent decades. Like bpb, historical perspectives that considered humans and nature in cities as opposite replaced.

The concept of the green infrastructure, which also prevails in Vienna, combines parking systems with biotope connections in order to meet both ecological and human needs. These approaches are intended to help minimize the negative impact of urban compression and create a variety of habitats for flora and fauna.

cities like Vienna show how important it is to recognize and actively promote biodiversity as an essential part of the urban habitat. So it is not only due to the wallet, but also to us how worth living our city really is. A colorful blooming Vienna does its part!

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