Chenshan Botanical Garden
The Chenshan Botanical Garden ( Chinese 上海 辰 山 植物園 / 上海 辰 山 植物园 , Pinyin Shànghǎi Chénshān Zhíwùyuán ) is a botanical garden opened in April 2010 for Expo 2010 in the Sheshan municipality in the Songjiang district of Shanghai . The garden has a size of 207 hectares and is part of a water-rich landscape, the distinctive points of which are nine granite hills towering up to 100 m. One of the hills, the eponymous Chenshan (literally "the southeastern [of the nine] hills [of Songjiang]") is located in the Botanical Garden.
There is the approximately 60 m high hill, a 34 hectare lake landscape, large green areas and many different themed gardens grouped around the lake. The garden is divided by an up to 14 meter high walk-in heaped ground on which various laurel forests have been planted. These forests each represent a continent. There are also greenhouses, research buildings and a large main entrance building. The Botanical Garden is traversed by a small stream in a west-east direction and a canal in a north-south direction. So far, around 9000 species of plants have been cultivated in the Botanical Garden.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 邹逸麟 、 刘君德: 《上海 地名 志》 第一 篇 自然地理 实体 地名, 第二 章 山 、 岛 、 沙, 第一节 山丘. In: http://www.shtong.gov.cn . August 9, 2004, accessed February 16, 2019 (Chinese).
Web links
- Chenshan Botanical Garden website (Chinese)
- Website of the Botanical Garden Chenshan (English)
- Booklet Shanghai Botanical Garden (PDF file; 3.44 MB)
- Website Auer-Weber Landscape Architects
- Website Valentien + Valentien landscape architects
- Video recordings of the garden
- Interview with the landscape architect Christoph Valentien
- Information on the Chenshan Botanic Garden Shanghai Colloquium
- Zeit.de: Gardens are like a dream for the Chinese
Coordinates: 31 ° 4 ′ 35 " N , 121 ° 10 ′ 42" E