Botanic garden is blooming lovely thanks to flower show
The Shanghai International Flower Show at the Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Visitors enjoy a picnic amid balloons and blooms.
A bird's-eye view of the Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Shanghai Botanical Garden has been turned into a sea of flowers, adding a splash of color to the city's spring.
The Shanghai International Flower Show opened at the botanical garden in Xuhui District on Saturday.
The annual event, originally scheduled to open on March 28 but delayed because of the novel coronavirus epidemic, is now in its 14th year. It is the biggest comprehensive horticultural show in Shanghai and attracts several million visitors.
Covering 40 hectares this year, it features diversified flowers such as hydrangeas, azalea, iris and roses and has four display areas.
Lupins and hydrangeas are the theme flowers for the event this year.
Some 20,000 lupins and 1,000 hydrangeas of more than 80 varieties are on display, blanketing the garden in blue purple and pink purple.
Visitors take photos at the Shanghai Botanical Garden.
A girl walks amid flowers at Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Sixty varieties of iris, 150 varieties of clematis, 12 varieties of azaleas and aromatic plants of 68 varieties are also on display.
Thirteen courtyard landscapes prepared by seven international designers and 10 domestic horticulture companies are also part of the show. Highlights include a classic Jiangnan-style garden and European-style countryside garden.
A Chinese herbal plant exhibition, an orchid exhibition and a Chinese rose exhibition are also on show.
Webcasts will broadcast the exhibitions, which will run through May 24.
A reservation system for entry will be in place to keep the number of visitors to below 20,000 daily to prevent social gathering amid the coronavirus pandemic. Visitors are required to present their health QR code.
Cloud appreciation and online forums will be hosted.
A bird's-eye view of the Chinese rose garden
A floral landscape and gazebo.
Flowers blanket a gentle landscape.
At the Chenshan Botanical Garden in Songjiang District, a sea of Chinese roses covering 34,000 square meters and featuring diversified colors such as pink, red, yellow, blue purple, white and multiple colors is in full bloom.
There are more than 880 varieties.
Chinese roses, as one of the 10 famous flowers of China, have been grown for several thousand years.
Also in full bloom at the garden are 200 varieties of Chinese herbaceous peonies in brilliant pink, white, red and yellow.
As the garden will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Sunday, visitors will receive a gift of flowers that day.
Pink roses are a highlight at Chenshan Botanical Garden.
Rich colors contrast with green foliage.
