Lovers Garden

Lovers Garden

Located on the East Bank of Xuanwu Lake in Xuanwu District of Nanjing, southwest of the middle section of Longpan road outside Taipingmen, and south of Xuanwu Lake Huanhu Road, the couple garden is a Jiangnan natural landscape garden with the theme of displaying wild medicinal plants and providing a series of services for sightseeing, rest and wedding. It is planned and designed by Mr. Zhu Youli, a famous Chinese landscape designer. The garden has rich plant varieties, profound artistic conception and picturesque charm It's very thick.

The couple garden is adjacent to Xuanwu Lake in the South and Zijin Mountain in the East, with a total area of 30 hectares, including 10 hectares of water. The park not only has the functions of sightseeing, viewing, leisure, entertainment, wedding and so on, but also has the content of teenagers' plant science knowledge practice. In 1984, it won the first prize of landscape design of the Ministry of construction and the national science and technology progress award.

Historical evolution

The site of the park was originally part of Xuanwu Lake, and then became farmland due to silting up of the lake bed. In 1952, Xuanwu Lake was constructed to dredge the lake, and this place became a dredged Lake spoil area.

In 1964, the garden was planted with flowers and trees donated by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and decorated with rocks, so it was called Sino Korean friendship garden. Later, a nursery was set up here.

In 1975, Nanjing Garden Department planned to build a hundred herb garden here, planting many valuable Chinese herbal medicines, which belongs to Nanjing nursery management office.

In 1982, the nursery management office and the flower and tree company merged, and BaiCaoYuan was subordinate to the newly established flower and tree company, and changed its name to garden Medicine Park, which was officially opened to the public on October 1 of the next year.

It was opened to the outside world on October 1, 1983. In 1987, the garden Research Institute moved from Gulin park to medicine park. The drug park has become a subordinate unit of the scientific research institute.

Medicinal garden takes plant landscaping as the main body, and local wild medicinal plant resources as the main landscaping materials. It integrates ornamental value and practical value. Through ingenious garden design, it has become a famous ornamental garden. At that time, there were sculptures of Li Shizhen and compendium of Materia Medica in the garden. With the continuous improvement of people's cultural and entertainment taste, the drug Park was renamed couple Park in 1993. Standing in the lovers garden, you can see the towering Zhongshan Mountain in the East, the pharmacist pagoda of Jiming temple and the Xuanzang pagoda of Jiuhua in the south. The winding Ming city wall goes westward along Xuanwu Lake. A beautiful scene of "thousand hectares of lake light and tower shadow, very mountain scenery embracing Pavilions" is displayed in front of you. Sightseeing here can not only increase the knowledge of medicine, but also enjoy the natural and beautiful landscape.

Park greening

In 1984, it won the garden design award of the Ministry of urban and rural construction and environmental protection of the people's Republic of China. In 1985, he won the national science and technology progress award. The couple park has the beautiful scenery of Xuanwu Lake in Zijin Mountain. Inside, there are flowing water, small bridges and winding paths, green trees and vines, and exotic flowers of green grass. The scenery is simple, wild and quiet. It can be said that the scenery of lakes and mountains is as picturesque as a poem.

The main part of the garden is plant landscaping, with local wild medicinal plant resources as the main landscaping materials. There are more than 900 species of more than 140 families. Referring to the natural population structure, the garden adopts a belt type multi-level light utilization structure composed of flowered ground cover plants, flowering shrubs, trees and vines, with a small amount of ornamentation of buildings and scattered marble. The landscape is built by taking advantage of the lake mountain and human characteristics to highlight the local characteristics and culture of Nanjing Tradition. In terms of the organization and division of the landscape space, the zigzag rivers, fuzhang and evergreen trees are used to organize the scenic spots, and then the artistic conception unit is determined under the comprehensive conditions of local topography and function. In general, each unit is cultivated by special cultivation or special cultivation, forming large flower blocks, large tree groups and flower forests, such as Manyuan, Mulan garden, Liaoyu Island, Mudan Island, etc.

Landscape in the park

The whole garden is naturally divided into six xiaozhouzhu scenic spots by water system, which is usually called "polder". From the north entrance, along the main road, there are No.1, No.2, No.3, No.4, No.5 and No.6 polders.

No.1 polder

No.1 polder is the vine garden. It is a special garden for vine medicinal plant varieties, covering an area of 1.18 hectares. The ecological habits of vine plants are applied in the layout. Combined with horticultural techniques, it reflects the overall style of natural simplicity and wild, quiet and natural. For example, sparse forests, clumps, isolated trees, rocks and walls have become the supports for vines to absorb and climb, and bridges have also become the way to "lead vines to pass water", so as to reduce the atmosphere of construction. Those with flowers blooming under the leaves should be set up to guide climbing, while those with flowers blooming above the leaves should be used as ground cover, so as to enhance the natural wild interest. There are four scenic spots in the scenic spot: Liaoyu, Fanglin Changchun, vine specimen rack, and vine garden building. The hedges on both sides of the entrance are planted with Rosa laevigata, which has the effect of viewing leaves, flowers and fruits.

"Liaoyu" is a small island surrounded by water on the west side of the north entrance. It is mainly in autumn. It takes the meaning of "dihuazhou on Liaoyu, reflecting the bamboo fence and thatched cottage" from Zhang kuoqing of Song Dynasty. Polygonum multiflorum and Polygonum bistorta are planted at the edge of the water. In the center of the island, there are mountains and rocks to form a high planting platform, climbing Polygonum multiflorum, ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata and Lycium barbarum. In addition, some flowers and trees such as Podocarpus arvensis, Shanhu taoyensis, Acer palmatum and Acer rubrum are planted to strengthen the autumn taste and take other seasonal requirements into account. Polygonum multiflorum is planted on the ground, pink in autumn, and water lilies are planted in the pool. The east side of the entrance is 77 square meters Square meters of landscape architecture, pergola shade, false thatched roof and the pair of Liaoyu landscape.

"Fanglin Changchun" is located in the east of the scenic area, which is a sparse forest and grass area of Ginkgo biloba. The tree trunks are covered with stone, and the vines under the forest are used as ground covers. The velvet lawn is in the sun. The stone and evergreen vines are evergreen all the year round, with white and purple flowers in each. Ginkgo biloba has golden wind and yellow leaves. There are also seasonal color overlaps of soft green in early spring.

The "vine specimen area" is located in the west of the scenic area, opposite to the gate of Cuizhou in Xuanwu Lake. It is two arc-shaped leaky flower walls, climbing more than 10 kinds of medicinal vines such as Schisandra chinensis, fufangteng, wuyemutong, Changchun youmatong, gouqi, honeysuckle, etc. In the middle is velvet lawn with Osmanthus fragrans, Sijiqing, Cinnamomum camphora, Paulownia and Lingxiao.

"Manyuan Xiaozhu" is located in the south of the scenic area. It is a rest place for science popularization activities, covering an area of 220 square meters. Reed grass roll shed roof, large glass window, simple and elegant, before the lotus pool, after the construction of flower beds, the window view is far away, winter and summer exotic. There is an arc top flower rack on the east side of it, which is the place of ornamental Akebia.

No.2 polder

No.2 polder is the medicated flower path area, covering an area of 2.57 hectares. There are two roads connected with Manyuan. Flower path is a kind of tree path network scattered in the ground cover of medicinal plants, which is the abbreviation of "flower visiting butterfly path". It is composed of six artistic conception units: Xiaoxi CI Yi, diejing District, yehuaxiudi, zhangyintai, papaya garden and palm slice. These six artistic conception units are not only independent but also connected into a whole.

"Xiaoxi CI Yi" is located in the northeast of Huajing District, with a bamboo forest in the East and a river in the West. The river is connected with Manyuan by a small stone bridge. On the other side of the river is a sparse forest of Metasequoia glyptostroboides and Lysimachia christinae. Under the bamboo forest, Lycoris radiata is the ground cover, mixed with grass and flowers. It is tangent to the "Pingan bridge". The flowers and plants linger in the blue water, and the windows of the thatched cottage are slim and graceful. The dust can't be seen, and the meaning of the word "light wind sweeps" comes from time to time.

Diejing district is located in the east of Huajing district. The top of fuzhang is composed of pine, cypress and fir with evergreen background, and slightly lower is the mixed forest of giant Bauhinia, Aesculus and Paulownia. Rhododendrons, orange wood and genkwa shrubs were planted in the ground, and Ophiopogon japonicus, Lycoris radiata and Oxalis were planted in the ground. A network of paths - "butterfly path" is arranged among the flowers under the forest to form a secluded landscape on the east side of fuzhang. There is a small magnolia flower dock between Qianqian pine forest and Metasequoia glyptostroboides forest, with Magnolia officinalis, Magnolia officinalis, Magnolia grandiflora, Michelia and other Magnoliaceae flowers and trees. The main road passes through its west side and connects the garden with "yinman bridge".

"Yehuaxiudi" is located in the southwest of yinmanqiao, with malantou paving as the main body. In the west, there are Longbai and lujiaobai trees, which are connected by flowers. In the south, there are gingko woodlands, which are purple calyx and evergreen. In the East, there are yueyuehong flowers. In the West, there are abundant flowers and small roses. It is adjacent to zhangyintai scenic spot in the south.

"Zhangyintai" takes three ancient camphor trees as the main body, surrounded by camphor trees, and the canopy covers about 200 square meters of cool world. Because the terrain is divided into high and low terraces, scattered stones are used as the edge, taking into account the use of sitting and playing chess. Shegan and Honggen are the ground covers.

"Papaya garden" is located in the west of diejing, Zhangyin, Tainan, on both sides of the main road. On the east side, there is a semi arbor type papaya forest, and on the west side, there are large shrub type papaya and various kinds of Begonia, all of which use Oxalis as the ground cover to set off each other.

"Palm slice" is located in the southwest corner of the river into the lake, both sides of the water, open water. "The palm leaves tremble and the water is cool", which is a good place for summer rest on the lake bank. Wild snakeberries are used as ground covers under the forest.

No.3 polder

The third polder also uses plants as landscape materials, reflecting the characteristics of natural simplicity, wild and quiet. Including cherry Road, maple tree iris forest, wisteria flower rack, tea garden, Yuanyang bamboo building, water lily Pavilion and many other scenic spots. Cherry blossoms are planted along the main road, but they are not limited to the planting methods of common roadside trees, either in pairs, or in groups, or in isolation. Under the forest, red oxalis and Ophiopogon japonicus are used as ground covers, showing the pure appearance of cherry blossoms. The varieties are divided into two types: Japanese cherry with single petal and evening cherry with double petals. The flowering period is connected and the flowers are as bright as clouds. On the west side of the main road are lawns and tall Pterocarya stenoptera forest. On the outside of the forest is the lake. Iris plants under the Pterocarya stenoptera forest and lotus flowers on the lake form a natural plant community in a humid and shady environment. The beautiful treeline creates a cool rest world. In the lotus field near the lake, there is a small and exquisite round pavilion with four pillars. Its appearance is simple, and its seat is shaped like five petals. From a distance, the whole pavilion looks like a water lily in full bloom, and the pavilion is carved with white jade to send the son Guanyin. It is dignified, beautiful and compassionate. The maple poplar forest is adjacent to the palm forest in the north, which is regularly planted to form a close-up view. Wisteria frame is built in the south of palm forest and the west of lotus pond, with large volume and excellent shape

Chinese PinYin : Qing Lv Yuan