The council's executive committee will be asked to approve a two-phased approach, with the first including a new grey surface using epoxy resin replacing the red tarmac.
Then they move the plants to a darker environment to encourage flowering and the formation on the surface of its buds, leaves and stems of trichomes, tiny resin-filled glands resembling sea anemone.
The colour of the cross's pillar is achieved by the oxidisation of the copper, impregnated in resin and then bead-blasted to bring the copper to the surface.