Credit: MTR Corporation Limited
As you pass by the resident properties atop MTR stations, how
often do you stop to appreciate the well-groomed greenery and flowers? Maybe you
should next time, after reading about the story behind the beautiful
landscaping work.
Meet Chan Yin-chun, the eight-year Gardening Supervisor at
Caribbean Coast for MTR, who has been planting thousands of flowering shrubs,
trees and plants in an effort to transform the initially bland area into a
green paradise. Her works get compliments every day, according to Chan, and
apparently a man who used to live at South Horizons moved his family to Caribbean
Coast because of the exquisite landscaping. What Chan doesn’t say is that she
is also the recipient of the 2014 Grand Award for Individuals, the highest
honour granted to staff at MTR, partly because she was the developer of a
self-fertilisation method that utilises recycled flowers and plants to replace
chemical fertilisers, therefore helping to create a more sustainable
environment for Hong Kong.
Chan gets asked about tips on growing houseplants quite
often, in case you’ve got a question or two about your pot of something at home
too.
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