Tashkent-Flora 2014: Demonstration of Uzbekistan’s Charm and Splendor
A regional exhibition of flowers, landscape architecture and design, Tashkent-Flora 2014, has opened at the capital’s Uzexpocenter.
It is organized by the Uzexpocenter National Exhibition Complex Stock Company, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources and the hokimiyat (mayor’s office) of the city of Tashkent.
The wide-ranging reforms marshaled in Uzbekistan under the leadership of President Islam Karimov have facilitated the transformation in the appearance of urban and rural areas in the country. Along with the construction of modern buildings, a lucidly thought-out program is being implemented to promote planting of greenery and beautification of population centers, to create new parks, squares and other green zones in them. A great variety of decorative trees and flowers are planted, and landscape design has been spreading widely, thus having not only public places, but also private homes of residents adorned.
The principal end sought by the exhibition Tashkent-Flora 2014 is assistance for the further development of landscape design and floristics in Uzbekistan, improvement of architectural-artistic appearance of populated areas of our country.
Visitors are free to enjoy such sections of exposition as “Flowers and Floriculture”, “Fertilizers and Flora Protection Substances”, “Floristics and Accessories for Flower Arrangement”, “Landscape Architecture and Design”, “Garden and Park Construction”, “Greenhouse and Greenhouse Technologies”, “Medicinal Flora”. These sections cover a wide range of goods and services presented at the floristics market, the diversity of landscape architecture and design.
Especially eye-pleasing are the stands of florists with flowers and plants nurtured with the help of latest technologies. The broad range of ceramic and other types of accessories – flowerpots, various figurines and other attributes of décor for open spaces – is presented at the stands of the M.Rahimov Tashkent Experimental Combine Plant of Artistic Ceramics, the private enterprise Rasulov and the Sopol Buyumlar Lyuks Co., Ltd. The Uzbek Scientific Research Institute of Flora Protection presents a diversity of substances and means to look after the plants.
Benches and garden furniture from Autopromtechnology Co., Ltd, the private enterprise Pokizakhon and other local manufacturers are presented at the exposition pavilion. Their expositions demonstrate an extensive range of tables and convenient armchairs, arbors and tents. The company Art-business group offers forged furniture, fences and other goods from metals. A great diversity of mosaic slabs from natural rocks is displayed by the Neolit Co., Ltd.
The most high-tech solutions are posted in the section of landscape architecture and design. Masters of their business offer the visitors to get familiar with their works – starting from ordinary vases, grass plots and summerhouses through to the construction of waterfalls, installation of geysers and fountains, original lighting of gardens and the installation of children’s playgrounds in them. Of special interest are the cutting-edge technologies of vertical greeneries that allow for the creation of various constructions and geometrical figures from flowers and plants – balls, arcs, spirals and many other things. According to Timur Kadyrov, manager of the company Water Stone, this gives an opportunity to create even pictures and inscriptions from plants.
“The market of landscape architecture and design in Uzbekistan has been actively progressing,” Dmitry Ponomarev, the landscape architect of Gazon Markazi Co., Ltd, has said. “Important in this are the aspiration of our compatriots for beautification and comfort, as well as the growth in their wellbeing.”
“Owing to the created favorable conditions for the development of business, we have been working in your country with a great delight,” shares Bert Renap, manager of the Belgian company Plantrees. “That serves as a guarantee for a further enhancement of our activities in Uzbekistan.”
Original and modern solutions in the sphere of landscape architecture and design are presented also by students of Tashkent Architectural Construction Institute and the Abu Raihan Beruni Tashkent State Technical University. Notably, a master’s graduate of the latter Anastasia Kaneeva has elaborated a design concept of lighting park zones, that is, a spiral-shaped lampion. Its production does not require great financial investment and expensive materials; therefore it triggered a keen interest among the participants of the exposition.
The high quality of manufactured goods and provided services in the floristic sector, landscape architecture and design, the modern technologies and innovations of young local specialists, exposed at the exhibition Tashkent-Flora 2014 demonstrate a high level of development of this sphere in our country. This creates conditions for the further transformation in the appearance of urban and rural areas of Uzbekistan and their beautification.