The importance of
public green areas in urban environment, which is a sign of living standards
and civilization, increase steadily. Because of the green areas they exhibit
and their spiritual atmosphere, graveyards have importance. With increasing
urbanization come the important duties of municipalities to arrange and
maintain cemeteries. In recent years, organizations independent from
municipalities have become interested in cemetery paysage. This situation has
made cemetery paysage an important sector. The bulbous plants have a distinctive
role in terms of cemetery paysage because of their nice odours, decorative
flowers and the ease of maintenance. The field under study is the city of Tokat
which is an old city in Turkey. This study has been carried out in various
cemeteries in Tokat, namely, the Cemetery of Şeyhi-Şirvani, the Cemetery of
Erenler, the Cemetery of Geyras, the Cemetery of Ali, and the Armenian
Cemetery. Field observation have been carried out in terms of the leafing and
flowering times of bulbous plants. At the end of the study, in designated
regions in the before-mentioned cemeteries bulbous plants that naturally grow
in these regions have been evaluated. In the urban cemeteries, these flowers
are used the most: tulip, irises, hyacinth, daffodil and day lily (in
decreasing order of use). Various suggestions have been put forward in order to
develop the cemetery paysage in the city of Tokat.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Engineering |
Journal Section | Articles |
Authors | |
Publication Date | June 30, 2016 |
Acceptance Date | June 12, 2016 |
Published in Issue | Year 2016 Volume: 11 Issue: 2 |
“Journal of International Environmental Application and Science”