Beijing Botanical Garden is located between the Xiangtan Park in Haidian district and the Jade Spring Mountain (near the Wofo Temple), it was built under the approval of the State Council in 1956. It is an extensive botanical garden, popularizing knowledge about plants among its visitors. As well as exhibiting species of plants long know to men, it is a place of conservation of new types of plants and plant seeds (so called germplasm). Currently, the planning area is 400 hectares, with 200ha completed and opened to the public. There are more than 10,000 species of plants (including their varieties). At present, it is the largest botanical garden in northern China specializing in introducing new types of plants and promoting theoretical and practical knowledge about them through research. The exhibition greenhouse is the center of the whole garden. It has 13 rooms, in which 1500 kinds of tropical and subtropical plants are planted, including stone flower, bachelor trees, oncidium and other rare plants. Beijing Botanical Garden is a cultural landscape, consisting mainly of plants exhibition area, historical sites, nature reserves and research zone. The plants exhibition includes ornamental plants area (Special Class Park), arboretum, bonsai garden and greenhouse flower district. Ornamental plants area is divided into 11 special class gardens, such as peony garden, china rose, flowering peach garden, clove garden and so on. Arboretum area consists of the ginkgo area, rose area, Berberis area linden and willow areas, Paulownia ash zone, as well as the magnolia and sycamore zones. The nature reserves and research zone includes Wofo Temple, cherry gully, the ruins of Long Taught Temple, “One Two Nine” pavilion, Liang tomb, Yellow Leaves Village and Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall. The Wofo temple was built in Tang dynasty and is now under the national cultural protection. The bronze Buddha of Yuan dynasty is protected and exhibited there. The leafy cherry gully is to become a nature reserve. Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall exhibits Cao’s life history and the scene of the creation of “Dream of the Red Chamber”.
Beijing Botanical Garden Attractions
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