Council and forestry students to 'embelish' the village

JIMENA (Press release) Jimena Council and the forestry unit of the local high school, I.E.S. Hozgarganta have recently agreed to cooperate. The students will be able to have practical classes in the gardens, squares and streets of the municipality, and the latter will get what is being called an 'embelishment'. The Council will provide the necessary equipment, mostly planters and earth, and the Instituto will bring in some 3,000 plants with which to decorate the Historical Quarter and elsewhere. The Council has also agreed to make available one or more municipal plots where the students will be able to learn about planting and cultivation of native trees and plants. At the meeting that came to the above agreement, he possibility arose that in the future the students could work on reforestation and maintenance of the El Risco botanical garden, which has fallen into disrepair thanks to negligence and vandalism. (Read about El Risco on DominGo, our erstwhile colour supplement. See Jimena in Flower, from May 2008.)