Bangkok's Saranrom Park decorated with flowers from Grand Palace

BANGKOK, October 27 (TNA) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is decorating Bangkok's Saranrom Park with flowers laid around the Grand Palace by mourners to pay their respects to late His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who passed away on October 13. The park, situated across the Grand Palace, is now beautified by the public flowers laid outside the palace in remembrance of the late and beloved Thai monarch. BMA officials from the City Hall's Environment Office are tasked with collecting and sorting the different types of flowers into piles, including marigolds, orchids, lotuses and garlands, and decorate them into the No. 9 in the Thai numeric symbol in front of the late and revered Thai King's portrait. Head of the park, Pasakorn Pojiraporn, told journalists on Thursday that flowers laid outside the walls of the Grand Palace weigh 800-900 kilogrammes per day since October 14, prompting BMA executives to work out how not to make them lose in vain and they then agreed that the flowers should be used to decorate various locations, including the Saranrom Park. Pasakorn said the flowers will be often changed to welcome visitors with something new and always beautiful, while the withered flowered will be then used as organic fertilisers. Pasakorn anticipated that more flowers should be laid outside the Grand Palace this coming weekend, asking the public not to bring flowers in plastic wrappings to help reduce garbage. According to BMA, all the flowers laid outside the Grand Palace are to be utilised for the maximum benefit and will be decorated for the highest honour of the late and beloved Thai monarch. Meanwhile, Public Health Minister Dr. Piyasakon Sakolsatayadorn has ordered all concerned agencies nationwide to prepare medical and public health services at their best to people travelling to pay their respects to late His Majesty the King at the Grand Palace. (TNA)