Guilin Garden Expo

Guilin Garden Expo

The second Guangxi (Guilin) Garden Expo is located in the area of Yanshan town and Dabu township of Yanshan District in the south of Guilin City, which is the only way from the urban area to Yangshuo scenic area

Introduction to Garden Expo

In order to improve the level of landscaping and ecological construction in Guangxi, promote the great leap forward development of landscaping construction and landscape industry in the region, comprehensively display the achievements of Guangxi's landscaping and horticulture, create a platform for the development of ecological landscaping and horticulture, and strengthen the scientific and cultural exchanges of landscaping and Horticulture, the Party committee and government of the Autonomous Region decided to hold Guangxi's landscaping and Horticulture Expo in turn in 14 cities in the region, and Liuzhou was successful in 2011 Held the first Garden Expo, Guilin won the right to host the second Garden Expo.

The second Guangxi (Guilin) Garden Expo is located in the area of Yanshan town and Dabu township of Yanshan District in the south of Guilin. It is the only way from the urban area to Yangshuo scenic area. The site selection of the project involves Guangxi Liangfeng farm, Guilin Institute of Agricultural Sciences and Caodi village committee of Dabu Township, Yanshan District, with a land use area of about 1300 mu. The region has beautiful ecological environment, rich tourism resources, rich history and culture, and unique natural features. The completion of the park will drive the rapid development of tourism and transportation in Yanshan District, meet people's spiritual and cultural needs, enhance the cultural connotation and taste of Yanshan District, improve the city's image and competitiveness, promote the overall improvement of urban landscaping level, and effectively promote the improvement of urban ecological environment and living environment, which will achieve good economic and social benefits.

The theme of the Expo is "landscape garden, the best in the world". The design of the Garden Expo Park is closely around the theme of the Expo, making full use of Guilin's popularity in the world, and through different landscaping techniques, presenting a Horticultural Expo that integrates urban culture, landscape culture, garden art and folk customs. The landscape axis of the whole park is clear and the landscape level is rich. The park is divided into eight areas: entrance landscape area, central waterscape area, main venue area, international exhibition area, agricultural science and technology exhibition area, Guangxi urban exhibition area, garden art exhibition area and wetland landscape area. The park Expo will fully display the development level of modern Guangxi garden and horticulture, excavate the historical and cultural heritage, innovate the construction concept of garden and horticulture, strengthen the exchange and cooperation among the garden and horticulture circles, enhance the industry, expand the exchange, and build a modern scientific and technological ecological garden with the characteristics of "Green Garden Expo, Ecological Garden Expo, humanistic Garden Expo, and harmonious Garden Expo", so as to promote the garden and horticulture of the whole region The rapid and healthy development of internationalization and modernization has made positive contributions to the construction of ecological and harmonious Guangxi. This is also an important measure for Guilin to build itself into a "modern international tourism city, historical and cultural city and ecological landscape city".

Garden Expo

Highlight 1: different styles of urban exhibition gardens have their own highlights, including coastal customs, rare animals, history and culture

The 14 city exhibition gardens are the "feast" presented by Guilin and other brother cities. The history, culture and characteristics of each city are different, and its exhibition garden also has its own style.

Beihai, Qinzhou, Fangchenggang and other cities in southern Guangxi: beach, white dolphin, waves, palm plants and other elements highlight the coastal style, creating a well-organized, well arranged and well matched southern scenery.

Chongzuo Garden: with the theme of "the last home of white headed langur", it shows the living history of this world recognized rarest monkey in the local area for more than 3 million years with the help of Han white jade totem pole and stone stacked rockery.

Guigang Garden: it connects the traditional Lingnan architecture with white walls and tiles, rocks, pools, garden plants and many other materials, showing the unique style of traditional Chinese landscape garden. With lotus, bamboo and other plants, to convey the "clean" garden idea.

Highlight 2: landscape art reflects the highest level of Guangxi, 20000 pots of American ornamental millet appear for the first time

Before the completion of the Expo, except for some fruit trees, the original site was a number of naturally growing miscellaneous trees. After vigorous construction, the landscape art of the park Expo has reflected the highest level of Guangxi.

"Flower sea and mulberry field": covering an area of more than 10000 square meters, "flower sea" has more than 50 varieties and 800000 pots of fresh flowers. More than 20000 pots of ornamental millet, also known as "ziyugu", were introduced from the United States.

Garden plants: 600 extra large trees, more than 2100 large trees, more than 60000 shrubs, 1.86 million ground cover plants, 150000 square meters of turf, more than 2 million pots of flowers and more than 30000 stems of various bamboos were added to the garden.

Highlight 3: rich in aquatic plants "water article" of the Expo: more than 60 kinds of aquatic plants are planted on the surface of 50000 square meters

There are many places to enjoy the water scenery in Guilin, but most people just sit on the boat to enjoy the scenery on both sides of the Strait and pay little attention to the situation in the water. The most wonderful part of the "water article" of the Garden Expo is that it provides a large number of rich aquatic plants for people to enjoy.

Water system: the total area of water surface is 50000 square meters, there are 350000 new species and varieties of aquatic plants, and there are nearly 60 species.

Wetland Garden: it has preserved and expanded the wetland formed naturally in situ, and planted more than 50 kinds of aquatic plants, such as Acorus calamus, lotus, barracuda, water lily, arrowhead, taro, Phragmites australis, etc. There is a sunken bridge in the museum. The bridge deck is one meter below the water surface. Through the glass curtain walls on both sides of the bridge, you can enjoy the panorama of aquatic plants and the koi swimming in it.

Highlight 4: five antique buildings constitute the "core" of the public park, and there are different sceneries at every level of the Dayan Pavilion

There are five buildings in the park, including Landscape Garden Museum, Wetland Museum, Dayan Pavilion, boutique Street and tourist service center. These buildings are antique architectural styles, which integrate many architectural elements such as cornices, corners, gray tiles, yellow walls and so on. They are not only the window to show the characteristics of Guilin traditional architecture, but also the "core" of the public park.

Landscape Garden Museum: with a construction area of more than 20000 square meters, it is the central building of the Garden Expo, which is well arranged and full of Chinese ancient charm. It integrates with landscape and garden to form a beautiful landscape. During the Expo, most of the exhibitions will be held in the museum.

Dayan Pavilion: the 48m high antique 5-storey building is the highest building in the park. You can see the panoramic view of the park. Each floor has a different landscape.

Highlight 5: 9 exhibitions, multi side display, Guangxi horticultural achievements model exhibition, let you appreciate China's famous ancient architecture

During the Expo, the museum will hold 9 exhibitions, including model exhibition of Chinese ancient architecture, Guangxi stone rubbings exhibition, Chinese garden and horticulture theme stamp exhibition, Guangxi bonsai root carving stone exhibition, jixueyu exhibition, Guangxi landscape painting and Garden Expo theme painting exhibition, Guilin Garden Expo construction picture exhibition, osmanthus flower exhibition and osmanthus seedling trade fair, outdoor large-scale green carving and garden and horticulture exhibition It's an exhibition.

Model Exhibition of Chinese ancient architecture: at present, it is the largest exhibition in China with the largest number of exhibits. It plans to display 33 models of palaces and walls, splendid gardens, pavilions, temples, Taoist temples and ancient capitals, including China's four famous buildings, Tiananmen Square, Palace Museum Taihe hall and other famous Chinese buildings.

Photo exhibition of Guilin Garden Expo Construction: it is divided into six parts: Garden Expo construction, Garden Expo elegant demeanor and Garden Expo achievements. It uses pictures, multimedia and other forms to show the construction process of Guilin Garden Expo and the "Garden Expo spirit", "Garden Expo speed" and Garden Expo construction achievements created by Garden Expo people.

What you need to know

About tickets

Guilin Garden Expo was officially opened on September 28, 2012. From September 30, 2012 to October 30, 2012, people in Guilin city and 12 counties can enter the park free of charge with their ID cards, but from October 9, 2012 to October 30, 2012, they can only enjoy the free admission at 10:00. Other cities need to buy admission tickets, which are 60 yuan per person.

About time

After the official opening of Guilin Garden Expo, the opening time is 9 a.m. and the closing time is 6 p.m.

If you want to have a better time, you'd better go out early. It will take several hours to finish the garden.

About transportation

Guilin Garden Expo is located in Guiyang highway, the golden channel for tourism. It is adjacent to the ring expressway in the north, Guiwu Expressway in the west, Hunan in the north, Liuzhou and Nanning in the south, Liangjiang International Airport in the West and Guangzhou in the East. At present, the transportation from Guilin city to yuanboyuan is also very convenient. Guilin bus company has opened five bus lines, including No. 5, No. 96, No. 97, No. 98 and direct special line (No. 5 has been combined with yuanboyuan special line).

In addition, there is a shuttle bus to Lingui.

About mascots

According to the relevant person in charge of the park expo office of the autonomous region, the mascot guiwa takes the city flower of Guilin as the design element, combines the landscape elements of Guilin, and changes into a healthy, confident, festive and auspicious Guihua doll image through personification. Guiwa is wearing green leaves, spray shoes and a bellybag with the characteristics of Guilin folk art, which fully demonstrates the theme of "landscape garden, show the best in the world" of this Expo, as well as the beautiful natural scenery and cultural connotation of Guilin. "Guiwa's hand gesture of victory is also the number" 2 ", which means that this Expo is the second one." The person in charge told reporters that the mascot named "guiwa" represents Guilin, Guangxi, and implies that the second Garden Expo will become an important event

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