The 2021 Greater Bay Area Shenzhen Flower Show—Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden

The 2021 Greater Bay Area Shenzhen Flower Show

The 2021 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Shenzhen Flower Show (2021 Shenzhen Flower Show) ran from March 20 to 29, 2021. It had be held concurrently at the Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden (SZBG) and the Shenzhen International Garden and Flower Expo Park (Garden Expo Park), and several floral landscapes in urban business centers in Futian District, Luohu District, and Nanshan District had be staged. The theme of the 2021 show was Deep Love From Shenzhen. Modern roses were the theme flower, symbolized love and the expectation of happiness.
This Flower Show had attracted the participation of 435 exhibitors and individuals from 19 countries around the world, and five cities from the Greater Bay Area and Chengdu, Sichuan Province. More than a thousand ornamental plant cultivars had be on display. The new cultivar of a modern garden rose, "Star of the Greater Bay Area" had made its premiere during the show. The SZBG, had a total exhibition area of nearly 60,000 m², with 38 gardens of different styles, included eight landscapes created by the world's top design masters. Seven city gardens highlight urban characteristics, encouraged city collaboration. Six Zen gardens featured natural simplicity, elegance, and tranquility. Twelve creative gardens, fulled of imagination and ingenuity, and five future gardens with a youthful atmosphere, designed by college students. The gardening treasures of the Lingnan region, included 300 bonsai and ornamental stone works, had be on display. The Rose Garden and the Cocoon into Butterfly were two extraordinary gardens constructed and decorated by SZBG staff. Many beautiful landscape niches and nodes along the way from the main entrance to the various attractions. A number of academic and cultural activities had be interspersed throughout the show, included the Greater Bay Area Garden City Forum, 2021 Shenzhen Flower Industry Forum, 2021 Shenzhen Nature Education Forum, Landscape and Horticulture Forum of Botanical Gardens and Flower Border Workshop. Cultural options included outdoor music and cultural performances, children’s painting show, scented tea exhibition and tasting, and a nature education carnival. Up-to-date technology had be available throughout the show for online viewing, on-site tours, broadcasting, mobile catering, and smart seats, and many visitors had experienced 5G high speed access.
In the Garden Expo Park, activities included a floral arrangement show, floral art performance, and the Greater Bay Area Floral Arrangement Competition had be held. Ten Master florists had created exquisite floral displays, allowed the audience to immerse themselves in the charm of floral art.
Deep Love From Shenzhen reflects the caring and intimate relationship between Shenzhen and its residents. The power of love is infinite, can bring us courage and wisdom, and is a great power to overcome hardships and heal everything.

Modern Roses

When we talk, write and express love, we usually relate to a flower species, the Mei-gui (Rosa rugosa in Chinese). Say the word Rose, and we can already smell their perfume, and think of the word and bouqets of flowers and petals tumble through our minds. Red for passion, pink for first love, and white for purity. But would you be surprised to know that the roses in our lives and our minds are, in most cases, I'm afraid, a different group of flowers, the Yue-ji (modern roses in Chinese)?

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International Gardens City Gardens Zen Gardens Creative Gardens Future Gardens Special Collections of SZBG

Gardening is a bridge that connects people with the environment, with others, and with their own fond memories. Eight international gardens, Granada Impression Garden, The Story of the Land, Van Gogh’s Garden of Dreams, Bayside Retreat, Shared Passion, Garden of Childhood, One Thousand Pictures, and Ubuntu, designed by top designers from Spain, New Zealand, Russia, the Philippines, UK, Lithuania, and South Africa. They portray exoticism, memories and hometown, demonstrate the relationship between people and nature, and reveal the past, present, and future of the Greater Bay Area in an international perspective.

Seven gardens were presented by six cities from the Greater Bay Area and Chengdu, namely Between Heaven and Earth (Shenzhen), Ripples of Love (Shenzhen), Fall in Love with a City - A Garden City under Snow Mountains (Chengdu), Pearl of the Sea (Zhuhai), Guangzhou & Shenzhen - Sincere Cooperation, Splendid Future (Guangzhou), A Sea of Bliss (Hong Kong), and The Dream Chaser (Dongguan). This show aims to use the garden as a medium to depict the city’s character, show the city’s charms, encourage the exchange of ideas, and imagine the city’s vision.

Zen is a kind of wisdom, which runs through the landscape and blends into nature. Zen gardening combines Zen and horticulture. The design of the Zen garden pays special attention to harmony between landscape and the environment. This exhibition includes 6 theme gardens, Pure Pavilion, Cohesion, Life as You Wish, The Great Bay Area,The Great Love, Love · Home, and Find Zen from Deadwood. These different Zen Gardens allow us to return to nature, away from the hustle and bustle, feel the peace of harmony between man and nature, and regain vitality.

The creative garden design is innovation-oriented, using traditional landscape painting, calligraphy, bamboo art, and new technologies such as 3D printing and digital control modeling, combined with the use of theme flowers to create immersive scene gardens. Twelve gardens were presented. During the visit, it is not difficult for visitors to experience the designer’s outstanding creativity and imagination and the concepts of environmental protection and sustainable development advocated by them.

The future garden design competition focuses on the innovation and inheritance of landscape architecture. It promotes the creative spirit of college students and the development of landscape design. Students from five universities were invited to design and construct five gardens. They are:“Connecting Future”, “Digital Ocean, Rooting Journey”, “Retrospective Garden”, “Time Containers of Shenzhen”, and “Symbiotic City”. They are full of innovation and a new sense of the future. While these gardens allow us to look back on Shenzhen’s past and look forward to Shenzhen’s future. These gardens demonstrate the unique insights of college students on urban construction and the future landscape.

Fairy Lake Botanical Garden has always adhered to the principle of combining conservation, horticulture, and science education to carry out the construction of specialized gardens. This time, we highlighted the newly opened areas, the Rose Garden, and Orchid and Buttery Valley. In the Rose Garden, a romantic place, four sections of “Love · Flower”, “Love · Water”, “Love · Corridor”, and “Love · Bridge” were woven together for you. In Orchid and Butterfly Valley, a show entitled “Cocoon into Butterfly” was presented. Spring in Shenzhen will also be explored using a variety of orchids. The themes were “Cocoon into Butterfly”, “Butterfly Dancing with Orchid Fragrance”, and “Orchid Fragrance Spreading Out”.

Granada Impression Garden

This garden is a tribute to the Islamic heritage of southern Spain. The imposing lightness of its arches, the beautiful simplicity and symmetry of its layout, and the harmony of its proportions all come together around the most precious element—water. A symbol of life and abundance, Sierra Nevada’s water-focused gardens are spare and sublime. Modeled on the Alhambra and Generalife, this space is a true heaven that brings freshness to the otherwise hot city.

Designer: Fernando Camino
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

The Story of the Land

The garden is inspired by Shenzhen’s history and its transformation from a small coastal town into a global technology hub. This garden’s message delivers the importance of preserving nature and local specialties along with its rapid technological and economic progress. The garden’s composition compares the outline of rice paddy fields and mangrove wetlands juxtaposed with a design simulates a printed circuit board. Rice paddy fields and mangroves stand for the city’s origin, and the tech elements symbolize the city’s present and future. All features work together to create a future image based on ecological awareness and respect for the past.

Designer: Maria Roguleva
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Van Gogh’s Garden of Dreams

The garden is inspired by the post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh. His masterpieces Starry Night and Wheat Field are used as design elements to create a dream-like modern garden with brilliant color and strong contrast. Yellow and blue are the primary colors of the garden. The path, paved with white pebbles, and yellow and blue glass stones simulate the clouds in the painting, while the yellow and blue flowers represent the brushstrokes around the clouds. The shining stars and bright crescent moon in Starry Night are transformed into a Moon Corridor and a miniature landscape in the garden. A hanging wind device references the Dutch windmill and the clean energy movement. At the same time, the miniature landscape suggests the typical vast land in the Netherlands.

Desigers: Reyes Jose Noell Audit
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Bayside Retreat

The garden shows how the balcony outside an apartment can become a welcoming environment for eating and socializing, surrounded by plants. A backdrop of sculpted wire mesh, inspired by historic buildings in Macao and Hong Kong, creates the illusion of an apartment. At the same time, a dense canopy reduces the balcony scale and creates intimate space. The balcony offers views over the bay, represented by an arcing water body that exactly sketches the line that joins Macao, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. The water is enveloped by plants typical to this area.

Desiger: Alistair W. Baldwin
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Shared Passion

This garden is created in memory of the designer’s late Grandpa (Captain Murray Greenwood). It is inspired by an ideal garden which they conceived during the designer’s childhood. The garden is an imagined retreat. A quiet place surrounded by nature, where they could have enjoyed nature, sat together to share stories, and planned the future. His grandpa came from a nautical background, and therefore water plays an integral role in the garden. Timber fins erupt out of the water and plants, loosely framing the space while allowing views into the depths. The path meanders into the garden’s center through towering plants, influenced by the designer’s many visits to Singapore and the local (Shenzhen) flora. The plants used are subtropical, orchids are the primary flower. Strategically-placed some bold foliage plants create an exciting space with elegant tone and color.

Designer: Matt Keightley
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Garden of Childhood

The Old Town of Vilnius is a famous World Heritage Site, known for its winding cobblestone streets, magnificent churches, and historic Baroque-style buildings. This garden is inspired by both the architecture and traditional rural planting. It is based on the designer’s childhood memories of her grandmother’s countryside home garden. The back wall of the garden incorporates elements such as cobblestone streets, churches, and Baroque architecture. Plants soften the rigid boundaries of the wall. The reflection of the sky in the two pools also adds interest and perspective to the garden. The light steel frame pergola symbolizes shelter. Underneath, visitors stroll along winding paths, immersed in the flower-filled garden and enjoying the comfort of beauty and fragrance.

Designer: Ula Maria
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

One Thousand Pictures

Soil and stone are the two basic elements of this garden. Everything that shapes the garden comes from the earth. Piled stones come from an abandoned quarry. The arrangement of the ancient rocks creates a space full of order and beauty while demonstrating minimal the forest disturbance. They are stacked into two resting areas, and a path interspersed between them leads visitors to the depths of the garden. The garden explores the ancient relationship between human beings and nature—an infinite cycle. Human beings are part of the picture. We must rely on nature to maintain the balance of life.

Designer: Xanthe White
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Ubuntu

When people gathered around the natural landscape to celebrate the harvest from the earth, the spirit of Ubuntu is awakened and rejuvenated. The city wall watches over the busy crowd's hustle and bustle, and they share the food brought by the rain. Water not only sustains diverse lives but also provides a space for reflection. Here, people realize that they are connected and are not invisible to the naked eye—human nature's commonality. Many trees become forests, and the trickles of water become a sea. When people gather together, they have more substantial power.

Designer: Leon Kluge
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Between Heaven and Earth

The garden explores the connections between space and form. The designer incorporates woodland, water, land, and sky, which abstractly create a unique sense of character in and around Shenzhen. Water channels reflect light and color from the surrounding landscape. Paved surfaces create areas for relaxation and informal meetings. The connections between man and nature are represented by the random pattern of tall carbon-fiber masts, some up to 10m high, designed to give height and drama to space and sway gently in the breeze. Each mast carries either a small LED or a misting spray adding animation and allowing the garden to be enjoyed as an installation space after darkness falls. The masts are either grouped or solitary, reflecting the diversity of local communities.

Exhibitor: Shenzhen Greening Administration
Designer: Gavin McWilliam
Designed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation
Constructed: Shanghai Huicai Horticulture Co.,Ltd

Ripples of Love

Shenzhen is a city full of charm. The rhythm of pursuing dreams in the city keeps going, and the pulse of innovation is never-ending. Shenzhen is a city full of warmth. Skyscrapers are surrounded by the fragrance of flowers and birds’ song, and a thousand parks are full of happiness. The charm and warmth of the city show the power of its love. This creative garden reminds us of the innovative city, offers its charm and warmth, and expresses love in many dimensions. The overall topography in the garden is the expression of the pulse of the city’s speed. The intertwined color lines are a metaphor on the feelings of love. Flower borders echo the sensation of rippled love. Art installation offer multi-dimensional meanings. The lifted corner opens a new chapter and presents another perspective. The twisted space brings diverse experience and conveys the power of warmth.

Exhibitors：Shenzhen Urban Management and Law Enforcement Bureau Gardens Dept.
Designers: HU Shiyang, WANG Lijuan, FENG Shizhe, Katarina Katsma
Designed: YiXiang Studio
Constructed: Shenzhen Flower Association; Shenzhen Dapeng Landscape Ecological Construction Co., Ltd.

Fall in Love with a City - A Garden City under Snow Mountains

The garden was inspired by ancient Chengdu’s portrayal and perception based on a famous drawing entitled Shuchuan Shenggai Tu (literally Overview of Sichuan Scenic Spots) in the Song Dynasty. It is aimed to show Chengdu’s urban features and beautiful scenery. Traditional and modern techniques, including bamboo art, flower art, horticulture, and flower border, are used to create this ecological garden. It reflects Chengdu’s new development concept as a model garden city. The new city spatial pattern of “one mountain with two wings” expresses people’s love towards this beautiful garden city under snow mountains.

Exhibitor: Bureau of Garden City Construction and Administration of Chengdu Municipality
Designers: HUANG Lin, LI Chao
Designed and Constructed: Chengdu Garden Construction Technology Service Center

Pearl of the Sea

The “One Pearl of the Ocean, One Belt of the Bay” is an artistic representation of Zhuhai’s heritage and culture combined in one garden. Taking inspirations from Zhuhai’s thriving marine life and being a modern seaside garden garden city together with the romantic atmosphere Zhuhai is known for. The garden is surrounded by islands to mimic Zhuhai’s blue bay “hundred islands” characteristics. There are few iconic landmarks chosen to represent the garden theme starting with the “Bridge” which connect Zhuhai, Hongkong and Macao. Zhuhai’s “Fisher Woman”, a romantic story about the love and devotion of an immortal to a human in the pursuit of eternal happiness, “Shell Opera House” which represent romantic life logic of Zhuhai citizens, reminds us all that there’s nothing impossible in the name of love.

Exhibitor: Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Zhuhai Municipality
Designers: Christopher Edward Eulloran, Nathan WANG, Joy WANG
Designed: Shanghai Orisis Culture and Tourism Development Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Zhuhai Xiangzhou Zhengfang Holding Co., Ltd.

Guangzhou & Shenzhen - Sincere Cooperation, Splendid Future

The design is centered on a swirling ring-shaped streamer and a falling stream. Various colorful flower plants such as rose, sage, and impatiens form several beautiful flower borders. It reflects the theme of “Guangzhou & Shenzhen - Sincere Cooperation, Splendid Future”. The spiral ring-shaped streamers are like two vines that support each other and extend upwards. This shows that the development and cooperation between the two cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen are mutually supportive and a win-win and, thus, jointly promote the motherland’s economic growth. Guangzhou, Shenzhen and even the Greater Bay Area are closely connected, with a long history and prosperity of various industries with a promising future.

Exhibitor: Guangzhou Forestry and Garden Bureau
Designers: WEN Caizhen, LIANG Hongming, PAN Fasheng, GUO Jiameng, LV Qianting, LUO Yunhua
Designed and Constructed: Guangzhou Landscape Engineering Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.

A Sea of Bliss

The garden is entitled “A Sea of Bliss”, it is the right place for chilling out and soothing the soul. The massive heart-shaped wooden frame scatters a sea of flowers at random, which sends a message that with diligence, love, and strong will, one can live out a bright and blissful life. In the middle of the floral sea sits the theme flower of the Online Hong Kong Flower Show 2021 - Rhododendron. As the legend goes, the blooming of the elegant and dazzling Rhododendron spp. heralds the Goddess of Love’s arrival to bestow upon our city the joy and wishes of love. The beautiful analogy extends to the Greater Bay Area, where cities stand close and shine together, just as this show’s theme suggests.

Exhibitor: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Designed and Constructed: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

The Dream Chaser

The garden chooses Rosa ‘Free Spirit’ as the central flower, representing the enterprising spirit of the people of Dongguan. They are united and hardworking, virtuous and pragmatic, daring to try, and striving to be dream chasers and dreamers in the new era. Inspired by technology and dreams, it is integrated with four elements which are Dongguan landscapes, the history of Aquilaria sinensis, IT, and the Time Train. The garden shows that technology will promote urban development and help people realize their dreams. Interactive smart devices controlling fountains and background music enhance visitors’ experience. This high tech concept conveys an environment-friendly approach that highlights man and nature’s harmonious coexistence.

Exhibitor: Dongguan Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau
Designers: WANG Lan, FU Chenghong, LIAO Linli, NIU Yanpin, LIU Fengyuan, GUO Peng, YI Nan
Designed: Guangdong Bailin Landscape Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Dongguan Yihe Landscape Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.

Pure Pavilion

The top of the pavilion is a hollow circle. The base is a square that incorporates the Confucian theory of “Round Sky and Square Ground” as the building’s main body. The hollow circle stretches out a dead branch from the outside to the inside, suggesting the outside world’s temptation. Acrylic screens with classic Buddhist scriptures were hung on the wall to form an enclosed space. In the middle of the pavilion, a Japanese rock garden landscape is created. Four-colored roses are planted at each of the four corners, alluding to the cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. It is quiet inside this pavilion, with its spiritual landscape contrasting with the outside, which is a colorful sight, full of temptation. It is an ideal venue, so people can put aside all of their worries and find spiritual comfort here.

Designers: YANG Zhengmeng, WANG Wei, LUO Dequan
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Flower in Heart Development Co., Ltd.

Cohesion

Shenzhen is an inclusive city. Shenzhen embraces the advances of science and technology and the achievements of modern civilization. Talented people were attracted from all over the world and contributed to the city’s vigorous development. This garden adopts the design technique of pixel landscape. From the outer surroundings to the center, enclosed box-like greenery highlights the “cohesion” theme. The “big family” of Shenzhen was composed of hundreds and thousands of “small families” and talented folks from all over.

Designers: LI Xia, PAN Xuanhe, LU Yuanzheng, LIU Jun, YU Lianghui
Designed: Shenzhen Landscape Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Landscape Planning & Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Landscape Co., Ltd.

Life as You Wish

The combination of Amaryllis and the concept of satisfaction shows a theme of happiness, compassion, love, and friendliness. This garden attaches great effort to using ordinary objects, showing that people can live well in an environment of simple items. Still, they are happy and satisfied in their hearts. In the garden, a comfortable, peaceful, and optimistic atmosphere is created by combining the environment’s simplicity with the nobility and elegance of Amaryllis. Visitors can get away from the hustle and bustle and seek inner peace there.

Designers: WU Haohui, ZHENG Zhuofan
Designed: Guangdong Boyang Architectural Planning and Design Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Guangdong Shengyin Flower Gardening Co., Ltd.

The Great Bay Area, The Great Love

The garden employs the traditional Chinese ink painting method to outline the Greater Bay Area’s unique natural beauty. It incorporates Buddhism and Zen concepts. The background of the garden is presented as a three-dimensional Zen painting integrated with the continuous mountain scenery. By using the painting screens, the clouds and fog surrounding the mountains are displayed. Natural objects such as tiles and gravel are used for indicating the inheritance of nature and culture. The natural beauty of the Greater Bay Area is beautifully depicted by this simple design style.

Designers: SHEN Yue, HONG Linyan, ZHENG Yajing, HOU zhenwen, CAI Wenchao, WAN Fengqun, XIE Xiaorong, YAN Tingping, HUANG Xinggao, ZHANG Haiyang
Exhibitor: Shenzhen Meidao Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Beilin Landscape Architecture Ecological Co., Ltd.

Love · Home

The home is a haven of love, and the courtyard is a place for family communication and entertainment. The “love · Home” try to construct a comfortable idyllic landscape in the modern simple courtyard, giving people a comfortable, quiet and warm feeling of family. Warm home. Deep love! Here, we combine gardening with agriculture. Our Garden has not only flowers and trees, but also fruits and vegetables. The flowers and branches of the natural beauty are swaying, the verandah of the fragrant wood is fluttering, the fresh and soft outdoor sofa, the barbecue grills scattered, the quiet tables and chairs, all attract people to go in and smell flowers, experience a light and quiet rural life.

Designers: DENG Dan, DAI Li, ZHONG Min
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Honghao Garden Construction Co., Ltd.

Find Zen from Deadwood

The withered woods’ artistic display implies the reincarnation of life. The withered tree is reviving and echoing the wabi-sabi aesthetics of Zen. The designer uses stainless steel as a metaphor for water, while micro-topography and white sand representing mountains and rivers. Simultaneously, mirrors at the front of the wall extend the space, including the landscape’s opposite mountain scenery. The Zen platform setting will also bring interactive experiences to the visitors, who can see themselves through the mirror. Showing the harmony of nature and themselves.

Designers: WANG Lianghong, PAN Yuchen
Designed: Suzhou Around-Aisan Landscape Planning & Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Suzhou Industrial Park Gardens Co., Ltd.

Love and Growth in Nature

The garden with its natural beauty enhances the rapid urban development of Shenzhen. The garden embraces the themes obstructed Shenzhen’s recent years rapid development which is ‘Deep Love’ & ‘Healthy, Quality Plants’.
In designing this garden, the designers use the rose, diamond and water to reflect the above themes in a way to deliver the deep love for this great city and for the people who live there.
The garden is filled with romantic plants and symbols. The roses surround the pool of purity, the love deepens as the visitor walk up the clear steps as if floating on love and joy. The viewer’s health, both body and mind, will benefit from the love, plants, the purity of land and water they exude. This garden reflects the company’s ultimate belief in developing landscaping culture, creating high quality life.

Designers: Yuko Tanabe Nagamura, Ankur Jajpuria, Ingrid Swan
Designed and Constructed: Sunnystone Group Co., Ltd.

Aromatic Perception

It is a challenge to create a multiple-dimension landscape in a limited venue. The main structure of this garden, “Jinghong”, is based on a cursive Chinese character, “爱” (love). It is agile and open. The structure forms an endless landscape extension with the near stage and the distant mountains and forests. Rosa odorata var. gigantea were planted around the main structure as the theme plant, accompanied by new ornamental flowers, creating a unique plant landscape. The roses and the colorful flower border complement each other, giving visitors a wonderful experience.

Designers: JIN Xiangda, ZHAO Yongqing, JIANG Qian, ZHENG Zhicheng, LI Zongze, LI Changping, LUO Tongguo, WU Wenli, LIU Lishen, HU Jindou
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen BLY Landscape & Architecture Planning & Design Institute

Deep Love

Shenzhen has been transformed from a small coastal fishing village into a vibrant and innovative modern international metropolis. Gardening and floral art are combined to create an immersive garden scene. Expressing our memories of Shenzhen’s past life, our love for a happy life now, and our vision for a better tomorrow. Except for plants, the exhibition is made of old objects commonly used by fishermen in the past, such as broken fishing nets, bamboo fish baskets, small fishing boats, cables, and green wine bottles.

Designers: XIE Xu, KE Yingfeng, NIU Xiaonan, LI Guili, HUANG Nanjiao, HE Huili
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen ZSZ Construction Group Co., Ltd.

Drink a Cup of Tea, and Grind a Bowl of Green Sand Together

Drink a Cup of Tea, and Grind a Bowl of Green Sand Together” comes from famous poet Xu Zhimo’s poem “Ink and Blue Flower”. The text of the whole poem is refined and elegant. It vividly exaggerates the leisurely motions of boys and girls in love. This design adopts a simple technique and accompanies rare plants, which symbolizes the preciousness of love and expresses men and women in love in a beautiful garden setting.

Designer: QIAO Yu
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Lvyuanfang Garden Flower Co., Ltd.

Immortal Terrace for Dew

In ancient times, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built a terrace to connect with the Immortals. He felt a strong desire for mankind to be united with nature. Nowadays, people use advanced technology to realize a healthy ecological cycle. Every drop of rain and dew is like the blessing of the sky, nourishing the organisms on the earth. This garden expresses the scientific and ecological water cycle systems of urban rainwater collection, purification, and reuse, depicting the vision of the sustainable development of people, cities, and nature, and a harmonious and coexisting beautiful environment, combining ancient and modern practices. It is hoped that these practices best express love for the motherland and hometowns.

Designers: LI Jie, CHEN Chuanlu, CHEN Xiaoyu, PAN Jiazong, XU Juan
Designed: Shenzhen Branch of Beijing ZEHO Waterfront Ecological Environment Treatment Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Beijing ZEHO Waterfront Ecological Environment Treatment Co., Ltd.

Spray after Spray

This garden's theme is based on a viral song, I and My Motherland. Traditional bamboo weaving, fixing, 3D printing, and digital modeling are applied simultaneously to bring traditional bamboo products in line with modern technology. The shapes of sprays and sprays are perfectly presented, using the unique toughness of bamboo. Flowers were also planted nearby to create a pleasing scene. While stopping to enjoy this beautiful artwork, visitors can also feel their deep love for their Motherland.

Designers: XIE Jun, LI Yinghua, KE Yukai, LIU Ziqiang, LOU Yaxi, LIAO Riwen,
LIAO Yuan, WU Guizhou, LIU Wuhui, ZHONG Yunhai
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen City Beryl Environmental Art Design Engineering Co., Ltd.

Dancing Life, Living Fragrance

Imitating the dancing state of rose petals to create a free and extremely energetic theme sculpture “Dancing Life, Living Fragrance”. It symbolizes the vitality and power of life and expresses people’s deep yearning for a better life in the future. The sculpture uses stream like flexible ribbons, representing the world’s constant changes; an elegant posture against the flower border, becoming visitors’ visual focus from different directions.

Designers: LI Xiang, DU Jingming, PENG Wei, LAI Yun, LUO Chen, LI Jiayi, WANG Xiaolin
Designed: Jingtianxia Landscape Planning And Design (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Binhai City Environmental Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.

Lucky Box

This lucky box, loaded with flowers, expresses gratitude to Shenzhen. Inside the box, “mirror + flower border” is used to form an infinitely extending flowery horizon. The combination of light and shadow changes as the mirror establishes a new connection with the colorful roses. It creates a rich visual space like a kaleidoscope. It conveys the innovation and inclusion of this city and expresses the best wishes to the Shenzhen people...

Designers: ZHEN Jianting, ZHEN Zhanzhao, WANG Xia, HU Ting, ZHENG Maohe, HUANG Liqun, ZHANG Haitao
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Wenke Landscape Co., Ltd.

All Things Growing and Thriving

Combining venue landscape with flower borders, using flowers as media, praising the Chinese Communist Party’s philosophy and spirit. Wave-shaped and arc-shaped elements are transformed based on waves used as the main elements throughout the garden, integrated into the main scenery with colorful flower borders. The garden as a whole shows an upward and extending power.

Designers: ZHAO Jun, LI Yusheng, HU Pan, JIANG Wenye, CHEN Rui, WANG Lei
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Fangsen Gardening & Flowers Co., Ltd.

Queen of Flowers

The rose is known as the “Queen of Flowers”. This “Queen of Flowers” project creates a unique crown erected by a smooth curve structure decorated by 99 varieties of roses, combined with bamboo art, branches, and ornaments. The rose crown is agile and noble and expresses “deep love” with particular connotations. Designers: Vicky GONG, Ting MO, Kiki WANG, Ava CHEN, Qin SU, Yongming LIN, Yongtian WANG, Haibin LUO, Jane LU, Mio HONG

Designed: Asia Pacific Landscape (HK) Design Ltd.; Shenzhen Shidai Garden & Flowers Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Shidai Garden & Flowers Co., Ltd.

Six Zen Garden

Comprehend Zen in nature and create six Zen realms: water of Zen, bamboo of Zen, the stone of Zen, the wood of Zen, house of Zen, and sound of Zen. A Japanese rock garden is designed from borrowing bamboo forests and rocky slopes. Under the trees, there is a guqin platform. A moon-shaped gate close to the platform functions as apicture frame. Visitors can enjoy the scenery from the frame area and listen to the performance of the guqin. Zen is everywhere.

Designers: LIN Chunlin, LI Quanjin, LIN Huifang, SHAO Haiying, HE Jiaofeng
Designed: Shenzhen Metro Landscape Design Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Bajun Environmental Landscape Co., Ltd.

Colorful Garden

The theme of “Farewell to 2020 and Welcome to 2021” aims to break through the haze caused by Covid-19 last year and welcomes a more hopeful 2021. The design concept originated from “O” in the word “Love”, the second word of the flower show's theme. The “O” is transformed into a disc, giving emotional connotations. The discs are mostly warm colors, with high and low staggered heights, forming a colorful scene. The old tree is the core of the garden. A pergola made of white bamboo shoots is interspersed between the trunks and branches. Blue and pink vines are hung, creating a colorful flower pavilion. A pretty girl with an umbrella passes by the round rattan window, and time was frozen at that moment...

Designers: MA Michael, DOU Yuanyuan, LIAN Zhongming, WEN Jiamin, LV Guowu, PAN Jinfa, ZHANG Liyun, ZHAO Zhenyan, WENG Minren
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Guoyi Park Construction Co., Ltd.

Connecting Future

With the theme of “Flowers Blooming in the Bay Area, Creating the Future Together,” this work focuses on the Greater Bay Area’s interconnected and prosperous future. It is inspired by signal transmission and wind power generation. The rotated spheres representing the Greater Bay Area cities and the intertwined ripples show the future development trend. A blue-purple flower border with a sensing technology was created using mixed flowers in either independent or connected display scenes. In the flower border, lupines are the theme flowers that symbolize the vitality of city development.

Exhibitor: Huazhong Agricultural University
Designers: DIAO Junyu, YUAN Mengchu, LI Cenfeng, ZHANG Zixuan, ZHAO Xuying
Instructor: XIA Xin.
Constructed: Shenzhen Guoyi Park Construction Co., Ltd

Digital Ocean, Rooting Journey

The works use lupines as the theme flower and the intangible cultural heritage fish lantern as the main structure. The central part of the garden uses the dance of fish lanterns as the core design element. Many small fishes seem to converge into big fish from a distance, expressing the journey of seeking roots in Shenzhen. The works also show that Shenzhen has not forgotten its original aspirations and keeps its mission in mind. It promotes traditional culture using scientific and technological innovation. With the ocean as the background, the Bay Area as the support, culture as the link, progress is the future goal.

Exhibitor: Nanjing Forestry University
Designers: ZHAO Yue, WANG Liya, HUANG Kexin, YANG Defei, WEI Shuyu
Instructors: SU Tongxiang, QIAN Kedun
Constructed: Shenzhen Guoyi Park Construction Co., Ltd

Retrospective Garden

The garden design theme is “Retrospective Garden,” a homophone with “tracing to the origin” in Chinese. It traces the source of Shenzhen. The garden is divided into two parts. The water section uses mirrors instead of water, creating a deep and wondrous feeling, plus fishing boats that suggest Shenzhen’s origin. On the other hand, the boat's bow is raised, and the boat moved forward against the current, showing the city’s spirit of hard work. The theme flower “modern roses” is planted all over the venue. Their colorful flowers create a warm atmosphere, vividly showing the former small fishing village's scene becoming an international metropolis.

Exhibitor: South China Agricultural University
Designers: PENG Linqi, LIANG Hao, LI Jun, BI Tianfei
Instructor: ZHENG Wenying
Constructed: Shenzhen Guoyi Park Construction Co., Ltd

Time Containers of Shenzhen

The work intends to interpret the sequence of city space from the time dimension and trace it back to Shenzhen’s development. Three square boxes were used as carriers to represent its past, present, and future, respectively. The square box representing the past is low walls with regular hollow. The square box representing the present is the modern downtown skyline of skyscrapers. The mirror inside can reflect the visitors, implying that the construction of Shenzhen needs everyone's participation. The square box that represents the future is connecting to the “present.” Inside, there are some ecological balls containing seeds that symbolize rising hopes.

Exhibitor: Zhejiang A＆F University
Designers: HUANG Shengmeng, ZHU Huaizhen, SHEN Shanshan, YAO Meijin, JIN Yalu
Instructors: BAO Zhiyi, YANG Fan
Financially Supported and Constructed: Shenzhen Binhai City Environmental Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.

Symbiotic City

The garden shows the ecological orientation of Shenzhen in the new era of high-quality development. Based on Shenzhen’s rural scene and biodiversity, a miniature symbiotic system involving humans and nature is established. Reflecting on modern cities’ ecological crisis, we suddenly realized that the “symbiotic” wisdom of Shenzhen’s development could supply us with new inspiration continuously…

Exhibitor: Beijing Forestry University
Designers: HUANG Shoubang, DONG Yuxiang, MAO Yueting
Instructor: HAO Peiyao
Constructed: Shenzhen Guoyi Park Construction Co., Ltd.

Rose Garden

The garden consists of four sections, “Love · Flower”, “Love · Water”, “Love · Corridor”, and “Love · Bridge”. Using the combination of the abstract concepts of “silk” and “knot” in traditional Chinese culture, creating a romantic atmosphere based on “Love · Flower” and “Love · Water”. “Love · Corridor” functions as a link to connect the different spaces, and the “Love · Bridge” is the focus of the garden. Roses of four colors, pink, red, yellow, and purple, are used to express the first time meeting, falling in love, figuring things out, and enduring love.
Let Fairy Lake witness your love!

Designers: LIN Junying, ZHENG Chunming, WANG Mi, WU Ruojing, ZENG Yanjuan, LIN Chongtao
Designed: Shenzhen Zyeen Landscape Planning & Design Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation; Shenzhen Zhonglv Environment Group Co., Ltd.

Cocoon into Butterfly

The story of spring in Shenzhen using bamboo art and various orchids is on view in the Orchid and Butterfly Valley exhibit. It is divided into three chapters. In the first one, “Cocoon into Butterfly”, cocoons are attached to bamboo, surrounded by many orchids. In chapter two, “Butterfly Dancing with Orchid Fragrance”, butterflies flit between orchids, creating a beautiful story of butterflies and flowers. In chapter three, many orchids grow abundantly on big trees, on vines, and by the stream to create a tropical rainforest scene.

Designers: Kent POON, Joyce PENG, HUANG Zai, LI Changxian, WANG Zimu
Designed and Constructed: Huizhou Lvsu Technology Co., Ltd.

New Varieties of Ornamental Plants

The exhibition area is inspired by “deep love.” Four exhibition halls are constructed in the shape of “LOVE” to reflect the exhibition area’s beauty from the sky and interior layout. Eleven well-known horticultural companies from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan have provided more than a thousand new ornamental varieties. These new varieties are exhibited in the rose theme area and the new variety area. They will also be displayed in a variety of scenes, such as garden design, flower street design, and small space layout. The world premiere of the new rose variety, Rosa 'Star of the Greater Bay Area', will also be exhibited.