How often does the Garden Expo take place? When is the Kunming Garden Expo held? Which session?

News from China Garden Network on June 17: The first Kunming Gardening and Greening Expo opened yesterday morning. The Chunrong Park and Pinyuan carefully built by Chenggong and Shilin, which won the right to host the first expo, opened in full bloom. Kunming Garden Expo is held twice a year, each time hosted by two counties (cities) and districts. The second Kunming Garden Expo will be held in October this year, hosted by Anning and Yiliang.

Yesterday morning, the first Kunming Gardening and Greening Expo kicked off, adding greenery to the new area and adding color to the Yi countryside: Chunrong Park and Pinyuan Park, carefully built by Chenggong and Shilin, which won the right to host the first event, opened in full bloom. It presents citizens with a rich visual landscape of landscaping and greening with unique garden art scenery.

Qiu He, Li Peishan, Tian Yunxiang, Li Wenrong and other city leaders attended the opening ceremony.

The Landscaping and Greening Expo is a grand event that showcases our city’s gardening and horticulture standards. It also drives the development of the five major industries of garden planning, garden design, garden architecture, property management and seedlings and flowers, and comprehensively improves urban landscaping planning and design. and construction level, and build a platform for the coordinated development of urban economy, society and environment. After reviewing the planning plan of the organizing committee and voting by secret ballot, Chenggong and Shilin County will host the first Garden Expo. After more than half a year of careful preparation, the Chenggong and Stone Forest Expo Parks were respectively opened yesterday.

Chenggong Chunrong Park: Showcasing the horticultural standards of the new district

With an investment of 56 million yuan, the Chenggong New District Garden Expo Park, also known as Chunrong Park, was completed at the end of May this year. On the north side of the center, the park covers an area of ??180 acres, including 112,000 square meters of green space. Construction started in January this year and took 130 days to complete. There are 39 large and small landscape attractions in the park. More than 5,000 trees of 65 varieties are planted in the park, forming a comprehensive park focused on leisure. On the right side of the park is the Garden Expo exhibition area covering an area of ??more than 4,000 square meters. Relying on the park's peaks, pavilions, bridges, corridors, wetlands, floating islands, sculptures and other landscapes, some enterprises in the new district, townships (streets) and relevant county-level departments have built gardening sketches, flower art sketches, and famous flowers and trees in the park. , bonsai art and other attractions, representing different gardening schools, styles and traditional cultures, displaying the garden art and historical culture of the new area.

The entire park highlights the technological nature of garden art with a complete rainwater collection and green irrigation system. Signs are hung on various types of trees in the park to allow visitors to learn garden knowledge during the tour. It is reported that the park is open to the public free of charge.

Stone Forest Garden: Highlighting the essence of Yunnan style gardens

Stone Forest Garden Expo is also called "Pin Garden". It is located in the area with the highest concentration of stone forest tourist attractions along Shilin Avenue. Construction started at the end of last year , covering an area of ??150 acres, with a green land rate of 88.3%, a green coverage rate of 90%, a water area of ??22.56 acres, and a total investment of 33 million yuan. The park has 11 scenic spots including the Welcome Square, Harmony Square, Tianyuan Square, Listening to the Whispering Waves, Moon Pavilion Star Platform, Dense Branch Forest, Bamboo Shadow Screening the Moon, Plateau Apricot Altar, as well as Ginkgo Garden, Bamboo Garden, Subtropical There are 8 branch gardens including evergreen coniferous forest, evergreen broad-leaf garden, and aquatic botanical garden. There are 207 kinds of ornamental gardens with more than 500,000 plants (clumps) including trees, shrubs, bamboos, vines, ground covers, aquatic plants, etc. Ornamental plants, with the theme of "Gardens create beautiful cities and create happy lives", display the rich garden plant resources and diverse national cultures of Stone Forest, highlighting the characteristics of flowers blooming in spring, providing shade in summer, highlighting autumn colors, and creating greenery in winter. Culture is the main line, based on "water, the source of life", and based on the large-scale use of flowers and plants to create a harmonious living environment and highlight the essence of Dian style gardens.

The Garden Expo Park not only includes large and small stone forest scenic spots and the most distinctive landscape avenues, but also has scenic spots such as Lufu Ancient City, Wetland Park, and the First Village of the Yi Nationality that are under planning and construction. In the future, a tourism development pattern of "five points in a row and five stars shining brightly" will be gradually formed here. The Garden Expo Park and the other four characteristic tourist spots will form the main elements of tourism development in Shilin County.

The reporter learned that the Kunming Garden Expo is held twice a year, and each time is hosted by two counties (cities) and districts. The second Kunming Garden Expo will be held in October this year, hosted by Anning and Yiliang.