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City living in York Region provides lots of advantages, from all the great places to shop, eat and live, to entertainment options, and of course the increasing number of employers choosing to locate here. But one advantage country living usually has over city life is the abundance of green, natural spaces.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, we\u2019ve all come to understand and appreciate the value of trees and landscaping in our urban spaces. More greenery is good for our air quality, increases property values, and can lower energy costs. It makes our urban spaces feel more welcoming and human-scaled. Plus, it just looks good.<\/p>\n
greenery a vivaNext priority<\/strong><\/p>\n For all those reasons, introducing more greenery and landscaping to the communities where we build our projects has always been a vivaNext priority. Plants are chosen largely for their practicality. Median and boulevard planters filled with lovely, healthy blooms and foliage look gorgeous. Median planters filled with sad, struggling plants? Not so much.<\/p>\n roadside plantings face tough ride <\/strong><\/p>\n The challenge in getting more of the former and less of the latter, is finding plants that can cope with the often-inhospitable environment associated with roadside plantings. Roadside plantings have to cope with heavy doses of wind, pollution, and winter road salt spray. We\u2019ve made an incredible effort to give our plantings every possible advantage, from the design of the planters, to the amount and type of soil, to the actual choices of trees and plants.<\/p>\n Some of the plants selected for our first projects didn\u2019t thrive as well as we hoped, so we redesigned our plant selections for the rapidways. Now we\u2019re using an even tougher group of plants with a built-in advantage: they already grow wild in this area. Many of the new plants are those you\u2019ll find in rural York Region, growing happily along roadsides and around old farmhouses.<\/p>\n going wild at the VMC<\/strong><\/p>\n Some, like sumacs, grasses and Kentucky Coffee trees [which isn\u2019t really a coffee tree, but has pods with seeds inside that early settlers used to make a coffee-like drink], are native to parts of Ontario. Others, such as rugosa roses and daylilies, might have been planted many years ago by humans, but they\u2019re so tough, they don\u2019t need any help once they get established and are happy growing wild.<\/p>\n The new flowers, grasses, shrubs and trees, including those we\u2019ve planted in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, will add a beautiful green note to the Viva rapidways and stations. And because we\u2019ve chosen these natural-born survivors, they should be green and blooming for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City living in York Region provides lots of advantages, from all the great places to shop, eat and live, to entertainment options, and of course the increasing number of employers choosing to locate here. But one advantage country living usually has over city life is the abundance of green, natural spaces. Fortunately, we\u2019ve all come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,626,25,30,19],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-facilities-and-terminals","category-going-green","category-rapidways","category-urban-planning","tag-vaughan-metropolitan-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}