Not enough potted flowers for 2008 Beijing Olympics?

When you’ve been around china for sometime, you would notice how the government uses small flower pots to instantly setup a magnificent floral garden where they want to when they want to. Well it seems China will be facing a huge scarcity for potted flowers in time for the Beijing Olympics.

Will enough flowers thrive to sustain instant “natural” scenery during the much anticipated Beijing Olympics?

Let Olympic flowers bloom.

“August and September in Beijing is a tough season for flowers. The excessive heat and rain tend to shorten the blooming of the flowers and also make flower breeding a difficult job,” said Yao Shicai, a senior flower expert with the Beijing Research Institute of Landscape and Gardening (BRILG). “Besides, market demand in these two months is also a low period, so horticulturists don’t try to grow things in this season and leave the city flower-lean.”

On the above photo, workers build the framework in the shape of the Bird’s Nest where flowers will be placed, on Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, July 22, 2008. The flowers will be kept on the square until the National Day holidays end on October 7.

Photo source: China Daily