Shanghai Botanical garden is the majestic city Botanic gardens in China. It houses a magnificent collection of plants, consisting of several thousand species, including very rare. In addition to native plants in the garden also grow the types of flowers and shrubs imported from other climate zones.

In 1954 on the site of the Botanical garden is a Garden Longhua for children, but twenty years later began construction of the Shanghai Botanical garden. For visitors it opened its doors in 1978. Over the years, Botanic garden has won many awards at the most prestigious international exhibitions of flowers.

The best time to visit is from spring. At this time it hosts various exhibitions. At the exhibition you can see the most incredible flowers shapes, sizes, colors and scents. In the Rose garden begonias bloom in spring, plums, peaches and cherries. In the Peony garden is the rich collection of peonies, the national flowers of China. In the Garden of azaleas is about 5 thousand species of these flowers, and about the same species – Magnolia garden.

For summer vacation, the best place is the Bamboo garden. Here grows about 100 species of bamboo trees from all parts of China. On both sides of the road there are bamboo houses, in the shade where you can relax and hide from the sun.

A special place is the Garden penjing (a kind of bonsai). It presents pink water lilies and lotuses. Autumn Park is popular with tourists because of the rampage of the coloring of the leaves on the trees.

Winter exhibitions at the Botanical garden there is a greenhouse, which includes more than 3, 5 thousand of plants brought from the tropics. The halls are equipped with automatic sprinkler system and a special system to create a specific environment for each plant species. The greenhouse is divided into two zones. The first is for tropical plants, the second for desert plants.

Also in the garden area with tropical fruit trees. Here grow pineapples, coffee tree and other exotics.