Flowers of plants including cosmos, Jerusalem artichoke, Tatarian aster and Melampodium float in a water bowl at Kougen-ji temple in the city of Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, in September 2021.

More than 20 decorated boats loaded with fresh flowers are ready for the floating flower market set to open to public on Thursday at Litchi Bay in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province.

These floating devices meet all ecological, environmental and economic ways of treating the problem sustainably,” said Krish Jayachandran, and FIU professor of Agroecology the project’s advisor.

Floating flower bowls are bowls filled with water and plants. The inspiration comes from what’s in bloom daily throughout the garden where he is a horticulturalist.

Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52 percent more phosphorus and 36 percent more nitrogen than the natural nitrogen cycle ...