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Description:
Finding a wide variety of plants is often quite literally a walk in the park.
Transcript
- 00:00
when planning at a park we get to choose all sorts of different
- 00:17
elements from winding pathways to fancy fountains to fun playground equipment [design of swings and slides around a fountain at a playground]
- 00:22
but it's important to remember that one of the most essential parts of any park
- 00:25
is its plant life and yeah we know you can't really have much fun sliding out
- 00:30
a bush but trust us it's important one of the most common plants we see in park [a busy park with people walking and cycling]
Full Transcript
- 00:34
ding ding ding trees trees are kind of the MVPs of parks they provide lots of
- 00:41
shade especially in the hotter months and different sorts of trees have
- 00:44
different sorts of qualities for example in autumn the leaves of maple trees [large trees in a park]
- 00:48
change colors from greens to spectacular shades of yellow orange and red it's
- 00:53
like nature's fashion show another popular tree is the weeping willow not
- 00:57
only do they both have lovely sweeping canopy but they also have lots of [a willow with a big canopy in a park playground]
- 01:01
branches that are low to the ground making them really easy to climb which
- 01:04
is good because it's tough to convince the fire department to bring their fire
- 01:07
engines and ladder to the park every time you want to climb a tree another common
- 01:11
kind of plant found in parks is flowers whether they're bright yellow sunflowers [a sunflower in the sunshine]
- 01:15
or roses that come in pretty much any color you would ever want flowers add
- 01:20
splashes of beauty to any park plus they weather the elements a lot better than
- 01:24
any paintings you might try to hang around the park paintings and rain not [raining in the park]
- 01:28
an ideal pair beyond looking pretty flowers also play an important role in
- 01:32
the parks ecosystem may attract bees and other insects who go on to pollinate all [a bee pollinating a white flower in a park]
- 01:37
sorts of other plants and another strike against painting the only paintings that
- 01:41
tend to attract bees are of honey last but not least we sometimes also find
- 01:45
vegetables in park some parts have community gardens which allow people to [lots of vegetables growing in a park]
- 01:49
plant and grow their own vegetables this gives people a chance to learn about
- 01:52
gardening see how quickly the plants grow and get some free food and as much
- 01:56
as we like other park fixtures like benches you probably shouldn't take a [a kid hiding behind a park bench]
- 02:00
bite out of them
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