Donghu Plum Garden in the 80's to the early 90's, has built "cold colorful pavilion", "dark fragrance bridge", "water clear bridge", "plum blossoms In 1998, Mashan Management Office invested in remodeling the gate of the Plum Garden, and in 1999, it built a first-class exhibition hall of plum blossoms "Yizhi Chun" in China. 2002-2003, Donghu Plum Garden newly planted plum trees, and in 1999, it built a new exhibition hall "Yizhi Chun". In 2002-2003, nearly 1,000 plum trees were newly planted in Donghu Plum Garden, including more than 200 large plum trees. 2004, the expansion project of Donghu Plum Garden was included in the Wuhan City Urban Infrastructure Project to carry out the construction of plum garden infrastructure and the construction of garden sketches, based on the master plan and the requirements of the Ninth National Plum Exhibition, the new pavilion in the Plum Garden is called "Fragrant Clouds Farewell", and the garden sketches such as Flower Stream, Pier, Trestle, and the Pavilion of "One Branch Spring" were constructed. The garden sketches flower stream, dock, stacks, pavilions and bridges and "Mei You" sculpture, the new garden road more than 1,000 meters, and carried out the renovation of the entrance plaza and landscaping layout, the area expanded to more than 800 acres, the total investment of more than 15 million, 2009-2010 by the Dalian Wanda Group donated 6 million, and the Donghu Lake ecotourism Scenic Area Management Committee *** with the construction of the East Lake Ancient Plum Garden, covering an area of 150 acres, divided into the ancient plum blossom area and the ancient wax plum area, by the "Plum Fragrant Trail", "Valley of Beauty", "Raccoon Flower Stream", "Chinese Plum Culture Hall" and "Plum Legendary Characters Color Sculpture" and other attractions. There are four groups of sculptures of plum blossom legendary figures, such as plum boiling wine, plum wife and son, Li Bai's poem, Li Qingzhao, etc.; one group of Mao Zedong's bas-reliefs, four places of waxed-plum landscape and plum blossom landscape; and 12 places of jinshi seal carvings. The whole garden **** planted from all over the country to collect more than 100 years of plum and wax plum nearly 200, the highest age of 800 years. 2010 to 2012, the new east gate, small north gate, improve the parking lot, restrooms and other tourism infrastructure. All these initiatives, fundamentally changed the previous plum garden single-season viewing drawbacks, the East Lake Plum Garden is no longer just a special type of plum exhibition garden, but a set of tourism, recreation, scientific research, popularization of science, production in one of the integrated gardens.
This is a land full of poetry!
There is a rich Chu style and charm, and there are many different flavors throughout the year!
Spring to the mountains and water, birds and flowers; summer to ten thousand people lakeside water, the southern seaside scenery; fall to the maple leaves all over the mountain, osmanthus ten miles fragrant; winter to thousands of migratory birds, full of lakes to feed and sing.
This is the famous Wuhan East Lake Scenic Spot! East Lake Plum Garden is the seat of China Plum Research Center, which has built the world's largest plum resource nursery, cultivating and planting more than 320 varieties of precious plum trees and more than 20,000 plants, making it the world's largest, largest and most complete cultivation base of plum varieties.
The following is an introduction to several precious plum varieties in the East Lake Plum Garden:
Dragon Swimming Plum: the precious plums in the East Lake Plum Garden, with rare natural bending of the branches and trunks, in a posture like a group of dragons rolling over, with branch buds of light green and angular, and jade-white flower color, with a strong fragrance.
Beauty plum: bred by the French, China introduced from the United States, the Department of the European red leaf plum and China Palace powder plum hybrid offspring. The flower is heavy petal, light purple-red, leaves like red leaf plum, flowers, leaves are beautiful, dark purple-red, is the only plum in the red leaf varieties.
Multi-child Jade Butterfly: this variety is cultivated by the China Plum Blossom Research Center of the new varieties, late flowering, heavy petal sex is particularly strong, as many as 65 petals, up to 25 pistils, the maximum diameter of the flower reaches 4 centimeters, is the best domestic varieties of Jade Butterfly.
Snow Sea Palace Powder: this variety is cultivated by the China Plum Research Center of the new varieties, extremely dense flowering, early flowering, pinkish white to creamy white flowers, like snow from a distance, fragrant flowers, is to create a "sea of snow, fragrant Tao" landscape of the excellent varieties.
Money green calyx: buds large and flat round, the center has a hole, like an ancient copper coin, flower diameter of 3.5 cm or so, petals between 40 and 48 petals, really has a flower in the God of Wealth's momentum.
Huang Xiangmei: the real plum is straight branch plum class yellow incense type plum blossom, yellowish, Song Dynasty Fan Chengda "plum genealogy" recorded in the "light yellow color", that is, refers to it, light yellow color lost eight hundred years, in 1985 in Anhui rediscovered, on the yellow color of the yellow Xiangmei need to explain, it is not what people imagine yellow, but a kind of "yellow color", but a kind of "yellow color". The yellow, but a "like yellow non-yellow", like white non-white color, and this color is generally in the bud period and buds to be released when it has, and bloom when the plum blossom is almost white.
Compound petal jumping branch: amazing is a plum tree with red and white flowers or half-white and half-red, or white petals embedded in the beautiful silk red stripes, spots is very lovely.
Red Chidori: Introduced from Japan, it has rare purple-red flowers, which are as red as fire under the sunlight, and is one of the plum varieties favored by tourists.
Light Feng Hou: Introduced from Japan, the large diameter of the flowers can reach 4CM, the flowers bloom in two colors, the front side of the flower is nearly white, the reverse side of light pink.
Red table hanging branch: this variety is cultivated by the staff of the East Lake Plum Garden of plum blossom treasures, red flowers, set of table, hanging branch and other characteristics in one, is a rare treasure.
Shine Plum: "Flower Mirror" cloud: "Shine Plum, flowers bloom all downward and fragrant, wondrous products," from which we can see, Shine Plum and the pendant branch of the plum has a different concept, Shine Plum refers to the flowers bloom downward of the plum, the pendant branch plum refers to the branches of the plum naturally drooping, I do not know if you have paid attention to, the plum blossom habit of flowering is more side-opening or downward, and there is no backward opening, then, the plum is the most important thing. And there is no back to open, then there is a variety of plum in the light of the water "Ziti white light of the water", she is not only the flower blossom towards the bottom, and the heart of the flower with the pavilion, can be called the plum in the wonders of the product.
Taikaku: its buds like an abacus beads, buckle petals big red is the petals at the edge of the inward buckle or small bowl-shaped. Taikaku mutation phenomenon, that is, a plum flower regenerated in a plum flower, the formation of Taikaku, experts and scholars believe that Taikaku plum this flower in the long flowers of the phenomenon is a mutation of the plum pistil, commonly known as the pregnant with a child. Although the plum Cabinet variation is one of the characteristics of varieties, but this variation is not very stable, this is with the cultivation conditions or climatic conditions of growth, in the water and fertilizers in good climatic conditions in the year of the Cabinet flowers, the Cabinet phenomenon is obvious. East Lake Plum Garden since 1983 to organize the Plum Blossom Festival, attracted a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every year, creating a huge economic and social benefits and formed a good brand image.
Before the Fifth National Plum Exhibition was held in 1997, Donghu Plum Garden's annual Plum Exhibition was mainly a single form of plum-viewing, with less than 200,000 yuan of income from plum-viewing in each session. The fifth national plum exhibition is a milestone in the development of the East Lake Plum Garden, the session of the plum festival in the plum on the basis of the plum, carried out all kinds of rich plum cultural activities, attracted a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to come to enjoy the plum, not only set up a plum festival brand, but also led to the whole Mushan Scenic Area, the economic development, the formation of the first peak of the development of the East Lake Plum Garden.
In 2005, by the Wuhan Municipal People's Government, China Flower Association, the ninth session of the Plum wax plum exhibition held in the East Lake Plum Garden, the current national plum wax plum exhibition, so that Wuhan has become the city of Kunming after the city has held two national plum exhibition. For the Plum Festival, Wuhan Municipal Government attaches great importance to the investment of more than 17 million yuan on the East Lake Plum Garden expansion and renovation, a new set of Ming and Qing Dynasty Jiangnan garden-style courtyard building - Miao Xiang Guo, and its supporting projects Fangxi, put the crane Pavilion, pillow incense salon, the red bridge, the Plum Friends of the Bronze and so on. The new plum garden from the season open to enjoy the traditional mode of plum, into a year-round to let visitors close to nature, leisure and sightseeing place. The plum blossom festival plum blossom varieties, exhibition scale, plum bonsai art faction, ranked first in the previous plum show, more than ten participatory cultural activities colorful, loved by the public. Plum show revenue of about 2 million yuan, Wuhan East Lake Plum Festival has also become the Wuhan people during the Spring Festival flowers, leisure, entertainment, large-scale garden event. This is the second peak of the development of the East Lake Plum Garden.
In 2010, sponsored by the Dalian Wanda Group, Wuhan Municipal People's Government hosted by the Municipal Bureau of Tourism, Culture Bureau, Radio and Television Bureau, Education Bureau, Public Security Bureau, *** Youth League Wuhan Municipal Committee and our committee *** with the hosting of the "2010 China Wuhan East Lake Plum Blossom Festival" in February 8, 2010 to March 18 in the East Lake Mill Hill scenic area was successfully held. This year's Plum Blossom Festival will be "Plum East Lake, spring full of Jiangcheng" as the theme, to the East Lake's rich tourism resources and Dalian Wanda Group's full support as the basis for the purpose of enjoying the plums, tasting plums, welcoming the spring, spring for the purpose of breaking through the previous mode of organizing festivals from the simple garden activities into a large-scale mass participation in the theme of the cultural activities based on gardening, through the theme song, film, television and television programs, the theme of the Plum Blossom Festival. Greatly improve the visibility of the East Lake Scenic Area, expanding the influence of the East Lake Plum Blossom Festival brand. Especially in cooperation with CCTV Movie Channel to create a "Premiere China - Plum Dance East Lake" opening night, in the 2010 Chinese New Year to the whole country and even the world's Chinese diaspora grandly launched a large-scale performance of a group of stars, Jackie Chan, Liu Yunlong, Joey Yung, Zhu Yin, and many other stars have been to the scene to perform. Mao Xinyu, Wang Jianlin and provincial and municipal leaders *** with the opening of the Plum Blossom Festival. This performance has become one of the highest specification cultural and artistic evening held in the province, by the provincial and municipal leaders and the general audience unanimously praised. Plum Garden revenue hit a record high. East Lake Plum Garden ushered in the third peak since the festival. Located around the Chinese plum culture hall, combined with modern garden landscaping techniques, with a variety of aquatic plants, gurgling water; from the top look down like a dragon coiled around the Chinese plum culture hall, showing the depth and breadth of Chinese plum culture.
For the Ming and Qing Dynasty Jiangnan garden pavilion, its construction area of more than 3,000 square meters, the museum hides a large number of celebrities paintings and calligraphy, poetry and canonical books, is the spirit of the spirit of China's plum culture, and its supporting projects are Fangxi, put the crane Pavilion, the Shihong Bridge, the "Plum Friends" bronze statue and other attractions.