STROLLING AND KEEPING FIT IN MORSE PARK

Dear Friends
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From the SARS experience few years ago, everyone living in Hong Kong started to realize the importance of staying healthy. In my opinion, the best defence against diseases and overweight is to build a good body resistance. Apart from having a balanced diet, I think we need to get enough exercise to maintain the level of fitness of our body. As for this, I have been getting body erecise for 4 to 5 years long but I still keep my body fat. Anyway such doing will be best at my life.

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I used to stroll along the park at Monday's night enjoying in affluence and seeing those tropical plants. I like strolling with a FM radio along Morse Park sometimes or running along the boundary of the park. Morse Park is an urban park located nearby my home, it is in Wong Tai Sin in Kowloon. To be honest, Hong Kong government has provided many obvious improvements for public areas, there are many facilities like conservation corners, playground and football playgrounds,,, as well the designed gardens providing many tropical plants with public. For encouraging sake, I took a great deal of pictures showing the beautiful sides of Morse Park for your perusal and enjoyment.

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HISTORY OF MORSE PARK:

Morse Park occupied 15.8 hectares, is an urban park located in Wong Tai Sin in Kowloon. It was completed in 1967. The Park was named after Sir Arthur Morse, the head of The HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporating during and after World War II.

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Beutiful Trees and Flowers in Morse Park:

Flourishing palm trees of great variety add charm and attraction to Morse Park. There are over 23 species of palm trees from various countries in Asia cultivated on the park's some 2,000m.sq. of green space. Morse Park shoud not be missed by tree lovers. Some trees showing below are introduced here for reference.
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(1)Liquidambar Formosana

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Description: Formosa Sweetgum (another name) has a wide, pyramidal shape when young but eventually grows to a rounded or irregular form, reaching 40 to 60 feet in height with a 35 to 45 foot spread. Young specimens may vary in form and be somewhat irregular. It has a more rounded crown than native sweetgum. The large, three-lobed leaves, purplish-red when young, are dark green through the growing season and in fall turn a beautiful yellow-red color in the south or red in the north. Branches are covered with characteristic corky projections. Formorsa sweetgum makes a nice park, campus or residential shade tree for large properties.
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(2) Bauhinia Variegata

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Description: It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 10-12m tall, deciduous in the dry season. The leaves are 10-20cm long and broad, rounded, and bilobed at the base and apex. The flowers are conspicuous, bright pinkor white, 8-12 cm diameter, with five petals. The fruit is a pod 15-30cm long, containing several seeds. This is a very popular ornamental tree in subtropical and tropical climates, grown for its scented flowers.

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(3) Camellia Crapnelliana

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(Fruit of Camellia crapnelliana)

Description: Camellia crapnelliana is a 5-7 metre tall small tree with thickly leathery leaves and solitary and terminal flowers. In Hong Kong, it is distributed in Mount Parker and Mau Ping in Ma On Shan. It is also distributed in Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang.

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CONSERVATION CORNER:

In order to promote the conservation of wild birds, butterfilies and dragonflies, this area is designated as a Conservation Corner. To tie in with this aim, government is taking an ecological approach in our general horticultural maintenance. Apart from using less chemicals, HK Government plant more native minimum so as to preserve the habitats of wildlife.

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BUTTERFLY CORNER:

Government has specially opened up this in the park as a habitat of butterflies. Apart from using fewer chemicals and minimising the purning and removal of vegetation, our government has grown many plants such as Barleria cristata, Lantana camara, Gomphrena globosa and Ixora chinensis in this corner to attract butterflies. This corner provides butterflies with a habitat that is favourable for their growth and reproduction.

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All in all, a healthy body can only be achieved through a balanced diet, regular exercise, adequate rest and a happy stroll along the park neaby your home. Doing exercise and Taking a stroll after office will be important part of your life. By copy of this blog, you are cordially invited to stroll along the urban park nearby you, taking a breath and doing some exericses.
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Best Wishes here