Shanghai Botanical Garden - is the majestic City Botanic Gardens in China. In it there is a magnificent collection of plants, consisting of several thousands of species, including rare. In addition to the native plants in the garden are also growing types of flowers and shrubs imported from other climatic zones.

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

Best time to visit the garden - spring. At this time there are different exhibitions. Visitors can see the colors of the most incredible shapes, sizes, colors, smells. In the rose garden in spring blooming begonias, plums, peaches and cherries. The peony garden - the richest collection of peonies, the national flower of China. In the Garden of azaleas is around 5000 species of these flowers, and about the same kinds - magnolia garden.

For a summer vacation is the right place - it's Bamboo Garden. There is growing about 100 species of bamboo trees from all regions of China. On both sides of the road are bamboo huts, in the shade where you can relax and hide from the sun.

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

For winter exhibition at the Botanical Garden has a greenhouse, which represented more than 3, 5 thousand plants brought from the tropics. In the halls of installed automatic irrigation systems, as well as specific systems for the creation of a specific microclimate for each plant species. The greenhouse is divided into two zones. The first - for tropical plants, the second - for the plant of the desert.

Also on the territory of the garden there is a zone with tropical fruit trees. There are growing pineapples, coffee tree and other exotics.