The 2022 Greater Bay Area Shenzhen Flower Show—Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden

The 2022 Greater Bay Area Shenzhen Flower Show

In March, spring reigns everywhere, everything wakes up and thrives!
The 2022 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Shenzhen Flower Show (2022 Shenzhen Flower Show) will be held at the end of March at Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden (SZBG), the main venue, and Xiangmihu Flower Wonderland, the additional venue. The theme of the 2022 show is Happy Life in Low-Carbon City. The theme flower is Hippeastrum, symbolizing success after a hard battle and struggle.
At the Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, more than 50 well-known horticulture and landscape companies, universities from home and abroad, six cities and Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin from the Greater Bay Area, and Chengdu, Sichuan Province will participate in this show. More than one thousand and one hundred ornamental plant cultivars will be on display. You can enjoy 30 gardens featuring different styles, including eight landscapes created by the world’s top designers. Nine city gardens highlight urban characteristics, encouraging low-carbon life. There will be thirteen creative gardens full of imagination and ingenuity, a horticultural bazaar that brings together 11 international flower and horticultural merchants, and a college students’ garden design show including 25 design works full of vigor and vitality. The newly built Gesneriad Garden at SZBG will be opened to the public during the show. At the main entrance, two beautiful flower borders greet the visitors. At the Xiangmihu Flower Wonderland, the theme flower, Hippeastrum, and a variety of other flowers were used to create a rich and stunning scenario.
We are facing a lot of difficulties and challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss and the pandemic. We hope that the success after a hard battle and struggle brought to us by the theme flower will strengthen our courage to face the difficulties and challenges. This will enable all of us move forward together with bravery and love.

Hippeastrum

Whether it’s at Christmas or Chinese New Year, when friends and family gather to pray for the future, vibrant flowers are an essential ‘ritual’ in addition to steaming food under warm lights. They are ideal if they are large and flaming in colour. About 300 years ago, such an ideal flower, Hippeastrum, came into human life.

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International Gardens City Gardens Creative Gardens Welcoming Flower Borders Special Collections of SZBG Horticultural Bazaar College Students’ Garden Design Show Xiangmihu Flower Wonderland

Nature gives us endless inspiration and tender memories. Gardens are pleasant places for people to dialogue with nature, and healing. Here are eight gardens presented by top designers from Romania, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Italy and Korea. These gardens take us on a beautiful and relaxing journey and invite us to explore a sustainable path to enjoy and value nature.
Southwest of the International Gardens is the ‘Countryside of the Greater Bay Area’ covering an area of about 1,000 square meters. It is dominated by the theme flower Hippeastrum. Small trees and flowering shrubs form the skeleton. Ferns, begonias and mosses act as the ground cover. They form an abstract pattern with rich texture, and create a vibrant and ecologically beautiful idyllic scenery of the Greater Bay Area.

Each city’s heritage, personality and growth originate from nourishing its land and water, the enduring passion for life, and the striving for happiness. These are the nine gardens presented by Hong Kong, Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan and Shenzhen. They are symphonies of the city’s history, culture, natural landscapes, development prospects and future imaginations, as well as vibrant harmony of people, city and geography.

There are 13 gardens in this exhibition area, including ‘The Mysterious World of the Cloud’, ‘Surging’, ‘Above the Field’, ‘Coastal Vision’, ‘Melting’, etc. The gardens mostly use recyclable and environmentally friendly materials and low-maintenance plants. Various gardening techniques, styles, and plant species are demonstrated to create a harmonious coexistence of man and nature to express the theme of this flower show, Happy Life in Low-Carbon City.
Nine of the gardens were designed, constructed and funded by companies from Shenzhen, and four were created and funded by companies from Chongqing and Hangzhou.

Two welcoming flower borders are carefully arranged at the botanical garden entrance. Here flower beds and art installations made of unique materials are cleverly combined with the fairy sculpture to create a warm, welcoming atmosphere. At the entrance lawn, the white gravel and streamlined flower border present the leisure and relaxation of a spring outing in the coastal city of Shenzhen.

The Shade Garden, built in early 1990s, is one of the pioneers of the themed gardens in Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, while the newly opened Gesneriad Garden is the youngest. With their unique style and enchantment, they present alternative exquisite and distinctive exhibitions for this flower show, telling the story of SZBG’s original aspiration, persistence and progress in integrating research, conservation, display and science education.

More than ten well-known domestic and foreign merchants have been invited to display the most cutting-edge home gardening products and bring their most creative garden inspirations. You can experience the mind-blowing gardening concepts, unique and trendy designs, and examples of creative gardening displayed at close range. Immerse yourself in the beautiful life of gardening, spark your enthusiasm, and get inspired.

The College Students’ Garden Design Competition was held to promote cooperation among universities, enhance the innovations, and promote the development of landscape design. A total of 137 teams from 55 universities submitted their design works. Five of the most outstanding entries received awards. Winners are ‘Regaining Blue Bay, and Reviving Sea Life’, ‘Iced Coconut Latté’, ‘Blossoming Waiting for Water’, ‘Net and Knot’ and ‘The Last Seed’. The designs encourage recycling, water saving, garbage classification, and commitment to a low-carbon life. In addition, the designs call on people to protect natural resources, think about the relationship between human beings and the natural environment, and enjoy a low-carbon life.

Xiangmihu Flower Wonderland features the flower show’s theme flower, Hippeastrum, and a variety of other flowers. For creating a rich and stunning scenario, incorporating environmentally friendly materials (branches, rattan, etc.) and recyclable materials, in keeping with the flower show’s theme of Happy Life in Low-Carbon City and forming a new green and low-carbon trend. The entrance flower border ‘Blooming’ is based on a woven rattan floral arrangement, with various flowers and vivid Hippeastrum flowers in a staggered pattern. It is the start of a visual feast. Inside the exhibition area, there are flower sceneries at every step. Exciting and romantic art installations interspersed throughout, accompanying by colorful Hippeastrum varieties.

Self-Cultivation

Introspection in tranquility , cultivation of the mind is the design concept. Observing nature and life, then moving inward, as we cultivate the mind and then the garden is the goal.
Set up a tea house in the mountains. Surround it with bamboo, pines, hills and rocks. Meditate alone in the woods, among the grass and trees, and invigorate the body with natural air. In this garden, the designer uses the natural mountain scenery to create a realm for a hermit. The winding paths, green bamboo, thatches, and rocks are combined with shallow creek scenery, and the simplest natural elements to create natural agility.
In the shallow creek scene design, the red sand gravel is to blend into the nearby spring. The breeze is coming, the waves are sparkling, spring is in the heart. The design calmly cultivates the body and moves vividly.
Observe its micro, shape its object -- bamboo eaves mottled and moon-like shapes under the pine. Cultivating the heart is a journey back to nature. Growing the garden brings nature to nature.

Designer: 朴雄圭
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

The Island Boat

An abandoned wreck becomes a lush garden, suspended over a body of water, striking the visitor and prompting reflection on the future of the relationship between civilization, progress, and respect for the natural world.

Designer: Lorenza Bartolazzi, Claudia Clementini
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

The Urban Water garden

It is more important than ever to be sustainably conscious of our changing climate. As an industry, we can influence and inspire city planning and development to benefits our environment while helping to improve mental health and well-being.
A contemporary garden exhibits techniques to harness water and surface runoff.
Water courses through the garden, creating a mesmerizing and tranquil setting as pleasing to look at as it is to move through and reside in. A bold utilitarian hardscape is softened with a beautifully restrained pallete of plants and trees that tower above, providing dappled shade that animates the garden further. The excitement created with the movement of water down a vertical face will be contrasted with a perfectly still and highly reflective body of water. The garden will allow visitors to appreciate the beautiful possibilities in the city and remind them of the importance of our impact on the environment.

Designer: Matt Keightley
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

The Cloud

‘The Cloud’ is an artistic expression and an introspection of the way we interact with nature -- juxtaposed between being a spectator and immersed in the natural world.
As you walk towards the garden, a grand structure catches your eye. Walk closer, and you are greeted by deconstructed walls made of translucent glass blocks playing with light connecting the earth to the sky like a cloud. They are intentionally positioned with carefully angled openings so you catch glimpses of your reflection. ‘The Cloud’ capturing special moments of the sky and garden as the path guides you through the experience.
A meandering pathway invites you to walk through the garden, rising and falling like a valley, framing views as you journey between the majestic mountain-like arches and drifts of cloud-like planting. Natural stone boulders anchor the landform and provide variation in levels to create an immersive experience. A fallen sky is reflected on the polished metal boulders between natural stone.
As you move through the garden along the path, you capture moments of yourself within the serene planting. When you remove yourself from the track and rest, you experience the landscape as an observer as the arches reflect the sky and the garden. Delicate blown glass lighting is set within the cloud-like planting and the top rim of the tallest arches is illuminated to create a spectacular night-time display.
I invite you to drift through the garden at leisure or rest in quiet contemplation and even dance with the clouds!

Designer: Natasha Iyer
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Home

The garden explores the relationship between humans, plants and environmental issues. The environment isn’t something we can detach ourselves from. It’s our home, and it’s our responsibility to care for it.
Our journey begins in the forests and mountains. Plants native or endemic to S and E China form a backdrop to a stylized ‘mountain’. We are reminded precious minerals and rocks come from the mountains come, while the forest filters the air we breathe. Water is essential for all life, provides us with power and enables industry. The water from the mountain flows into a pool. A series of ‘skyscrapers’ with intelligent lighting emerge, demonstrating the importance of conserving energy, acknowledging that technology can be at the heart of protecting the environment. The pool collects the runoff and storm water from the landscape to be used again to recognize the critical importance of clean, fresh water for human survival. Flowing across the rivers that extend from the pool are deep drifts of colorful perennials. ‘Home’ demonstrates that it is possible to enjoy colorful gardens and protect the environment by selecting the right plants for the right place.
The journey ends with a body of water intersected by two raised areas planted with native wildflowers, representative of the aquaculture farms of the Pearl River Delta. This reminds us that whatever happens on land eventually makes its way to the sea and that all our actions have consequences.

Designer: Matthew Wilson
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Living Garden

A beautiful garden should be regarded as a room in your home, a part of your living space. This garden’s central theme is to blend life and the garden together. This is a functional, practical, and ornamental garden.
Focus on exploring how the garden can effectively manage space, change and recycling. This ‘movable’ assembled garden can be relocated to other areas for continued use. New technology and abundant plants make it possible. Unnecessary waste is avoided by using sustainable recycling.
The garden design also pays attention to the changing needs of children. It provides a relaxing living place for family and friends to socialize. It also creates a modern outdoor garden room similar to a home living space with healing power for trendy urbanites.

Designer: Michael Morley
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Cloud Tessellations

Cloud Tessellations is a pocket garden that provides shade and rainwater collection within a lush and refreshing environment. It is intended as a walkthrough and a place to linger, even if just for a moment. Long benches provide seating either together or alone -- place to pause, wait for a bus or meet a friend.
A cloud canopy composed of a series of tessellated triangles is suspended via a system of cables. The construction captures rainwater which is brought underground via pipes for later use. The cloud canopy creates a shady, fantastic, dream-like world beneath.
The planting is lush, rich in texture and immersive. Tree ferns and palms tower, and large leaves hang over the edges. The garden evokes the feeling of a jungle or rainforest. You’ll forget that you are in the middle of the city, and feel like you are high in the tree canopy among the clouds.

Designer: Carrie Preston
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Nature Sanctuary Garden

Romania is well known for its rich and varied landscape. Taking inspiration from her home country, the designer explores her passion for drawing and capturing the beauty of the natural environment with a garden inspired by her childhood memories. The ‘Nature Sanctuary Garden’ is a personal interpretation of a wild escape for meditation and reconnection with nature. It’s a landscape where rigid lines and symmetry are avoided to create a naturalistic feel.
Rock walls made of boulders offer an escape and separation from the outside world. These are at different heights to create diverse habitats and showcasing a naturalistic planting style. Steel panels are used as a floating walkway over plants to minimize intervention on the landscape. A cascading waterfall connects to the constructed wetland with aquatic species that help filter the water. A feature tree acts as a primary element of the space. Irregularly arranged stepping stones provide another access and create an opportunity for play or dipping your feet into the water.
The design is intended to remind us of the crucial roles of natural landscape. Due to increased deforestation and urban development, few protected virgin landscapes are left in Romania.

Designer: Anca Panait
Constructed: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation

Unbounded

Tide rises from the Bay Area, it is unbounded.
Inspired by the development planning of the Greater Bay Area, the unbounded is taken as the theme of designs: the integrated ecology, development, and life.
The ups and downs of mirror-shaped water channel signify the rise of the tide and voyage sailing. The artistic abstraction of wetland patch is formed, with a meandering ‘Coastal Belt of the Bay Area’ running through. The dense and scattered lampposts indicate the cities in this area. Free and flowing metal mesh ribbon means ecological corridor for birds, with birds breaking through the boundary. The garden expresses the people’s aspiration for a better life, the harmonious coexistence among people, the city and nature.

Exhibitor: Shenzhen Park Service
Organizer: Shenzhen Flower Association
Designers: LIN Junying, ZHENG Chunming, LIN Chongtao, ZENG Yanhong, WU Ruojing, ZHAN Tingting, WANG Mi, CHEN Yichan, ZENG Yanjuan, QIU Wenhui
Designed: Shenzhen Zyeen Landscape Planning & Design Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Fangsen Garden & Flowers Co., Ltd.

The Trace of Nature

As a pilot demonstration area, Shenzhen has initiated carbon neutrality to lead green development as an urban sustainability strategy. Advanced green development provides solid foundations for building a natural social system and nature-based solutions for carbon neutrality.
This garden uses visualized carbon elements to form the landscape and express Shenzhen’s determination to achieve carbon neutrality based on nature. All the materials in the garden are made out of nature and are built with high technological methods. Along the path, the plant communities are keeping changing with the spaces. The plant layers are gradually enriched, which visualize the significance of plants sequestrating carbon and increasing of biodiversity. In this garden, you can track the trace of nature, explore the value, enjoy the beauty of nature, trigger ecological reflection and spread the idea of a low-carbon city.

Exhibitor: Shenzhen Urban Management and Law Enforcement Bureau
Designers: Emma POWELL, FENG Yanfei, FENG Shizhe, WANG Lijuan, FENG Yichan
Designed: Yixiang Studio
Constructed: Shenzhen Fangsen Gardening & Flowers Co., Ltd.

Vigorous Dongguan, Smart Future

Dongguan is young and full of vitality. The city loves sports, especially basketball. It enjoys the reputation as a National Basketball City. The design incorporates more than 1,000 basketballs as the surface of the spherical pavilion. A ball screen built inside displays the development process of Dongguan. You can feel Dongguan, a young, cheerful and vibrant city full of dreams, when you are in it. Hippeastrum are planted outside, showing love and peace. After the flower show, the basketballs will be donated to some Hope Schools in remote areas, reflecting green development and the love of Dongguan people.

Exhibitor: Dongguan Urban Management and Law Enforcement Bureau
Designers: LIAO Qiucheng, HUANG Yuan, TAN Fudi, WU Libing, LIANG Haijin, ZHANG Yunlong, LIANG Yutao, WU Guoyong
Designed and Constructed: Lingnan Design Group Co., Ltd.

Foshan Garden

Foshan, the pearl of Lingnan, a city with more than 1,400 years of history, began in the Tang dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties and is now in its prime. Its long industrial and commercial traditions have been transformed into a profound force that has taken the city from the distant past, into a new era.
A garden is like a microcosm of a city. The Foshan Garden covers an area of 220 m² on a slope. An ecological gardening technique combining pottery, casting and a modern flower border is used to create the garden. In the garden, the lines of the delicate flower borders falling to the ground transmit the city’s warmth and reflect people’s aspiration for a better life. The white pottery slips in the cluster with flowers come from blending modern technology with classical literary symbols. Its new pottery-making process reflects Foshan’s new concept of practicing low-carbon development in the city. The Foshan Seal also contains a unique symbolic meaning, each side of which is crafted to bring a variety of visual experiences, thereby telling the romance of the Foshan story.
Exhibitor: Foshan Municipal Bureau of Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau
Designers: ZHANG Weihai, YANG Yongming, HE Haiyin, FAN Shuting, ZHANG Zhongsheng, FANG Ruijian, FENG Li, ZHOU Guoyuan, CHEN Guizhi, ZHAO Min, CHEN Mengyin, WU Haohui
Designed and Constructed: Boyang Design Institute (Guangdong) Co., Ltd.

Zhuhai, an Ecological Livable and Happy City

Low-carbon is a well-known characteristic of Zhuhai. Urban development has always adhered to the concept of ecological priority, advocating low-carbon life and developing a low-carbon economy. The low-carbon concept has been integrated into all aspects of the city. Happiness is another dazzling label for Zhuhai. Lots of parks and beaches along the Lovers’ road are accompanied by the laughter of the residents. An excellent environment for innovation and entrepreneurship attracts more and more young people to settle down and set up their own businesses. The garden’s waterways, circular trails, lighthouse, glass house and flowers express the livable and happy scenes -- simulating the long coastline. Shared bicycles, solar lights, low-carbon life display corners, and marine element sketches illustrate the green and low-carbon lifestyle vision. The ancient post-trail in Mount Fenghuangshan was once the only way connecting Zhuhai to Guangzhou and Macao. The garden restores the ancient post trail, together with a peaceful flower border. It shows the historical heritage of the Greater Bay Area and the unfailing charm of Xiangshan culture. The garden is like a post house, where mountains and seas embrace each other, youthful vigor and history meet. It conveys Zhuhai’s unswerving commitment to a high-quality development road of ecological priority, people first, openness and coordination.

Exhibitor: Zhuhai Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau
Designers: FAN Qingqing, HUANG Xinyi
Designed and Constructed: Zhuhai Zhengfang Public Resources Operations Co., Ltd.

The Land of Abundance Lined with Flowers

Chengdu, the Land of Abundance, has a rich historical and cultural heritage. This is a city where the ancient Bashu civilization is compatible with modern technological innovation. A low-carbon transport network is in perfect harmony with the lush environment. The pulse of the garden city is evident, and people’s happy lives set sail here.
Out of the Ninth Heaven came Chengdu, where thousands of households dotted the fairy painting. True to the poem’s reputation, the garden 'woven' with Shu embroidery is a wonderful epitome of Chengdu, a city of innovation and dreams. The long Jinjiang Greenway with hibiscus flowers in full bloom provides an authentic recreation of the beautiful scenery of Jinguan (ancient Chengdu) lined with flowers. The garden reveals the landscape of the Jinjiang Ecological Wetland with its gurgling streams and rich layers of water and grasses. The wavy bamboo weaving looks like a colorful boardwalk across the greenway. A vivid panda sculpture symbolizes the happy life of Chengdu. The dynamic cityscape unfolds like a painting scroll that depicts a future full of promise and possibility. These colorful landscapes all interpret Chengdu’s philosophy as a garden city advocating a green lifestyle of harmony and happiness.

Exhibitor: Chengdu Municipal Park City Construction and Management Bureau
Designers: ZHENG Ling, ZENG Yao, CHENG Xiaowan, ZHANG Lei, TAN Mingcheng
Designed and Constructed: Chengdu Nature Reserves and Wildlife Protection Center

Low-Carbon Guangzhou, Happy Rising

The overall design is made of bamboo and flower borders, forming the theme of low-carbon Guangzhou, happy rising. The garden design expresses Guangzhou’s current vitality with flexible and smooth curves, lamps, and furniture. It then predicts development and environmental sustainability with curve extension and bamboo weaving characteristics.
The main building is made of bamboo weaving, to form a rising posture. Bamboo weaving is intertwined, representing low-carbon win-win. Formed by bamboo weavings, light and shadow have changed from countable to countless, representing the infinite possibility of low-carbon development. The flower border is dominated by Hippeastrum, combined with other beautiful flowers, grassland, and gravel to form a colorful lower horizon, representing the happiness of life.
The flower border represents nature, while the bamboo weavings represent the living environment. Combining the two means the harmonious development of Guangzhou and the Greater Bay Area. It integrates low-carbon innovations and energy-saving developments, and creates a happy green life together!

Exhibitor: Guangzhou Forestry and Garden Bureau
Designers: WEN Caizhen, Leo LIANG, PAN Fasheng, LUO Yunhua，MO Wanzhen, WANG Jingyu, LI Kunyao
Designed: Guangzhou Landscape Engineering Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Guangzhou Jiahui Landscape Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.

Harmony between Guangdong and Macao with a Brighter Future

In the Hengqin Garden, three parts of Macao, Hengqin and the Guangdong-Macao integration are intertwined to present a wonderful symphony of harmony and development between Guangdong and Macao. Various plants like Hippeastrum, tulips, larkspurs, and torch lily flourish in the garden. Landscapes created from recyclable materials are interspersed among the plants. This combination is sophisticated and well-layered, demonstrating the creative themes of humanism, ecology and sustainability.
Chapter of Macao: Macao’s unique culture and charm is revealed through the regular gardens with the combination of Chinese and Portuguese features.
Chapter of Hengqin: The featured flower border of marine and wetland landscape shows the transformation process of Hengqin from the banana field to the modern city, and adheres to our original aspiration to build a deep cooperation zone between Guangdong and Macao.
Chapter of Integration: The Lotus Flower model is full of vitality and blooms in the center. The Lotus Bridge connects the two places. The circular arch is formed by the hands holding each other. These designs symbolize the deep integration of Guangdong and Macao, creating a bright future for Hengqin together.

Exhibitor: Urban Planning and Construction Bureau of Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin
Designers: LIANG Chaowen, YIN Haifa, CHEN Guanbao, CHEN Zhaoming, LUO Min, HE Gaimei, LIAO Shu, LIU Yuxi, OU Liyuan, YUE Senhao, YANG Qingxia, YANG Xiaomei, WEI Yanjian, LU Huijuan
Designed: Da Hengqin Public Facility Management Co., Ltd.; Shenzhen L&A Design Holding Limited
Constructed: Da Hengqin Public Facility Management Co., Ltd.

Ascending 25

Hong Kong has been reunified with the motherland for 25 years. The Greater Bay Area is offering multiple opportunities for Hong Kong to build a brighter future with measures to support the city as it strives for excellence. The design of the Hong Kong Garden, based on the concept of a giant bird stretching its wings, is adorned by a Pearl at its centre and blooming flowers of varying colors. It also features a massive Bauhinia display, symbolizing Hong Kong, the splendid and colourful Pearl of Orient is forever shining. The maximum use of green building materials, including permeable tiles and the LED lighting, epitomizes the importance of sustainable development for the city, ensuring the area’s long and happy existence.

Exhibitor, Designed and Constructed: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Exclusive Sponsor: The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Hometown of Hydrangea, the Old Capital of Bashu

Hydrangea, commonly known as hydrangea or hortensia, has signature big flowerheads that were made from small delicate flowers with diverse colors. They are a common ornamental plant in the Yangtze River Basin.
This viewpoint is located along the Crape Myrtle Road, using the original crape myrtle as the backbone to contrast the theme flower hydrangea. Combined with other plants and the original landform, several flower borders were set to create this road of hydrangea. These vivid and colorful hydrangeas will undoubtedly let our visitors experience the elements of romance and fantasy.

Designer: DENG Wei
Designed and Constructed: Chongqing Gardin Tourism Planning and Design Co., Ltd.

Hometown of <i>Hydrangea</i>, the Old Capital of Bashu

Orchids from Fairyland

Orchids are the primary plant material in this exhibit. The garden highlights the local environment, combining the natural of Fairy Lake Botanical Garden and the Chinese orchid culture. It uses bamboo, woods, and other primary materials to create pleasant scenery. With orchid elves as the thematic element, the story line of orchid elves exploring in the orchid planet is created by taking the life cycle of orchids in the tissue culture laboratory. Orchid artworks express the power of upward growth. It shows the dynamic pattern of the Greater Bay Area and the new style of world-class, high quality development.

Designers: CHEN Shenghong, CHEN Jian, YUAN Huihong, LI Yihong, WU Yin, XUAN Yinfei, ZHANG Ye, ZHAO Fei, LIU Pei, WANG Yi, CHEN Wanjun, ZHAO Yi, FANG Liqin
Designed: Hangzhou Humanities Landscape Design Co., Ltd. (The Second Design Institute)
Constructed: Zhejiang Humanities Landscape Co., Ltd.

Blossoming Water Lily

This area features many new varieties of water lilies to create an impressive aquatic garden. Inspired by a famous ancient Chinese poem, As the bright moon shines over the sea, from far away, you share this moment with me, it echoes the international prospect of world-class cities in the Greater Bay Area, and expresses people’s yearning for a better life. As the primary carbon sink storage area, the wetland creates a composite aquatic plant habitat with different levels. This watery space is integrated and combines to form a beautiful floating landscape.

Designers: CHEN Shenghong, CHEN Jian, YUAN Huihong, LI Yihong, WU Yin, ZHANG Ye, LIU Pei, WANG Yi, CHEN Wanjun, XUAN Yinfei, ZHAO Yi, FANG Liqin
Designed: Hangzhou Humanities Landscape Design Co., Ltd. (The Second Design Institute)
Constructed: Zhejiang Humanities Landscape Co., Ltd.

Azalea Red Carpet

Strolling along the loop around the Tree Fern Pond and Paradise Lawn, the colorful azaleas in different shades are just like a welcoming red carpet. Walking along the road full of flowers, you will find that the interconnected azalea bushes compose a rhythm like music. A vast and robust azalea rises up from the lawn, echoing the Dragon Pagoda on the distant hilltop, looking back like a colorful cloud tower, a kind of promising image. It links the past and future, and the lake and tower shadows depict charming scenery.

Designers: CHEN Shenghong, GAN Lihan, YUAN Huihong, LI Yihong, WU Yin, LI Xueting, YU Jianbo, CHEN Jiping, XUE Xiaoni, MAO Ye, CHEN Wenjun, WANG Siqi, FANG Liqin
Designed: Hangzhou Humanities Landscape Design Co., Ltd. (The Third Design Institute)
Constructed: Zhejiang Humanities Landscape Co., Ltd.

A Spring Morning

This garden is intended to present a beautiful image of a spring morning, with flowers in full bloom and the hazy, enchanting clouds of mist rising from Mount Wutongshan in the distance. A few tiny insects flutter around, and the beautiful sound of the lyre is indistinct and melodious. The garden is full of flowers along the winding garden trail, and everything is bathed in the soothing spring breeze. Zen sounds are everywhere over the deep valleys and water streams, from far and near.

Designer: TANG Hongxiang
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Bajun Environmental Landscape Co., Ltd.

Discovering Hidden Scenery

This garden gets inspiration from everyday lighting objects. The exhibit is divided into three areas: the entrance, a display of hand-made objects, and an activity/leisure area. Various environmentally friendly or recyclable items are used as containers for the plants. This garden creates a natural and wild landscape that allows us to discover the beauty of life in the action of recycling waste. We can experience the convenience and beauty of life sustained by low-carbon measures and activities that protect the environment. This garden conveys that a happy and beautiful life requires our actions -- starting with the small things around us, building our typical home and giving us all a bright future!

Designers: CHEN Ying, ZHAO Jun, HU Pan, JIANG Wenye, YANG Yun, LIU Wenkang, MO Pengkun, YANG Huaxin
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Fangsen Gardening & Flowers Co., Ltd.

Mystical Realm

Responding to the national call for ‘carbon neutrality’, we adopted environmentally friendly, low-carbon, recyclable materials to build the framework for this exhibit. Using hollow shapes to form several framed scenes, creating a visual effect for changing scenery. The framework runs through the entire site to form a central corridor. Combining this effect with the theme flower, Hippeastrum, and climbing roses highlights the characteristics of a long-lasting flower garden. It is easy to maintain, highly resistant, continuously flowering, environmentally friendly, low-carbon, and recyclable.

Designers: MO Xianting, YANG Ting, ZHOU Yu
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Shidai Garden & Flower Co., Ltd.

Forever Natural Home

With the rapid development of Shenzhen City, it also respects and needs ecology, goes deep into the hearts of the people, and pursues the ecological balance between man and nature, so as to keep the world alive and leave precious wealth for the future.
It is the responsibility of every Shenzhen enterprise to contribute to the ecological environment of Shenzhen. This garden calls for the harmonious progress of the city and nature by combining small with reality. At the same time, the garden space is combined with the existing bamboo forest to create a quiet atmosphere, which is the ‘comma’ of Shenzhen’s speed.
The cluster node in the garden is closer to the balcony and courtyard in terms of scenery matching and small space construction, so that citizens can ‘move back’ home and encourage ecology to fill the corner of life.

Designers: YE Weihua, WANG Xiaoling, LAI Shuweng, FU Shan, WANG Yuli, CHEN Haili
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Sincere Environmental Art Engineering Co., Ltd.

Melting

As carbon emissions increase, icebergs melt, sea levels rise, the land area for human survival becomes smaller and smaller, and our survival faces serious challenges.
The garden is centered on a bamboo grove, with a reverse Z-shaped bridge as the main feature. The garden is spatially separated through a bamboo corridor, bringing the visual focus to the centre of the landscape. This creates a long, narrow, framed space of tranquility that invokes exploration and reflection. The bamboo corridor symbolizes how people and nature are integrated with the sand pond and greenery. The design aims to raise awareness of low-carbon and environmental protection and contribute to humanity’s better home.

Designers: DENG Dan, ZHONG Min
Designed: Shenzhen Flower Border Chuangjing Technology Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Honghao Garden Construction Co., Ltd.

Coastal Vision

This garden creates an abstract seaside vision. Recyclable and eco-friendly materials are used to set up the photo frames, bridges and fishing boats, plus blue-green glass blocks and some artistic vignettes. The blue-green glass gabions symbolize the city’s tall buildings, standing amidst a sea of flowers, signifying a coastal city. Around the boats, there are also wave-like artworks, implying that the city is riding the waves with everyone into the new year.

Designers: LI Biyu, ZHU Binghua, HU Yong, LIANG Tusheng, ZHONG Xinrong, HUANG Zhinan, LIN Peng, HUANG Zhong, XIE Mengluan, ZHANG Zhengteng, HUANG Ying, CHEN Yujun, LUO Chaowei, WU Xinyuan
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Binhai Zhidu Environmental Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.

Above the Field

Although it is made by humans, the exhibit looks like it was created by celestial beings. The concept of this garden is derived from Van Gogh’s famous painting, The Wilderness. The blue sky, golden wheat fields and grasses create a tranquil and peaceful pastoral scene. The garden extracts the color elements from the painting. The green base is partially embellished with golden, purple, orange, and red, borrowing from the rural scenery of The Wilderness, reconstructing plant diversity, and making the garden highlight the texture of the wild.
The garden uses low-carbon recyclable materials, such as gravel, tree branches and canes, hemp ropes, and perennial ornamental grasses, which form a dynamic landscape.

Designers: LI Yu, LV Guowu, ZHANG Liyun, ZENG Haitao, LI Jinwen, LIANG Yonggao, LU Jianyi, TANG Jie, ZHANG Yupei, HUANG Junhua, SUN Si, ZHAO Zhenyan, WANG Qiang, TUO Jinling
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen Guoyi Park Construction Co., Ltd.

Surging

Shenzhen moved from a ‘Economical Special Zone’ to a ‘Pioneer Demonstration Zone’. The strong spring breeze of reform gives this innovative land a new mission. ‘Tide (rising)’, ‘wave (rush)’ and ‘surging (movement)’ imply that Shenzhen will continue to be a city at the forefront of reform and opening up, leading the trend in the wave of the new era.
The garden uses bamboo, an eco-friendly, indigenous, and natural building material by taking advantage of the natural benefits of bamboo in building sustainable structures. The design is intended to help raise awareness of the problems caused by the uncontrolled exploitation and abuse of building materials while perfectly blending regional culture, modern technology and practicality.

Designers: XIE Jun, LI Yinghua, LUO Yaxi, LIU Wuhui, LIAO Yuan
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen City Beryl Environmental Art Design Engineering Co., Ltd.

The Mysterious World of the Cloud

The garden is designed to show the three stages of Shenzhen’s development: past, present and future. It depicts a bird’s nest, a green land and a human residence without interference, living in harmony. The garden uses waste recycling products to build ten ‘Trees of Life’ displaying assembly techniques. The canopy is full of vitality as the mysterious cloud world sails by. The underneath is full of blooming flowers for enjoyment, like ‘The Wizard of Oz’. After the exhibition, all the materials in the garden can be returned to the project for reuse, so as to realize the whole process of construction waste application-demolition-recycling-treatment-reuse. This three-dimensional green garden illustrates a harmonious coexistence of man and nature. It provides a new way to explore the construction of low-carbon ecological-friendly garden city.

Designers: WU Yi, ZHONG Hui, OUYANG Qi, ZHANG Li, WEI Xue, WU Huajun, LIU Hui, HE Lu, WU Zhou, CHEN Zhuonan
Designed and Constructed: Shenzhen SEZ Construction Group Co., Ltd.

Welcoming Waves

As people living in a coastal city like Shenzhen, it is always fascinating to invite a group of friends to go to the beach in March to feel the breath of spring. This scene is intended to create the atmosphere of a spring outing in a coastal city. The white gravel of varying widths symbolizes the wave crashing on the beach. A streamlined flower border represents the raging sea. It’s a fantasy journey to the beach. This route can also lead visitors to the main scenic area, starting an incredible journey to the flower show.

Designers: JIANG Huaping，MA Yixin, GUO Jing，LI Xing，WANG Nan，JIANG Liqin，JIANG Xincheng
Designed: Shenzhen Beilinyuan Landscape and Architectural Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Hehe Landscape Planning and Design Co., Ltd.

Greeting Display

The design relies on the existing fairy sculpture and flower beds, and through artistic innovation, forms a beautiful and romantic landscape effect of fairies dancing with the wind. The 198 art installations made of special material are fixed around the flying fairy sculpture. The top of the art installations is Hippeastrum, the theme flower of this flower show. The beautiful Hippeastrum gathered together form a flower belt, just like a fairy’s gorgeous sash. The unique artistic design enables the flower belt to swing with the wind. The fairy is dancing, thus highlighting the festive atmosphere and welcoming guests.

Designers: JIANG Huaping，MA Yixin，GUO Jing，LI Xing，WANG Nan，JIANG Liqin，JIANG Xincheng
Designed: Shenzhen Beilinyuan Landscape and Architectural Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Constructed: Shenzhen Hehe Landscape Planning and Design Co., Ltd.

Shade Garden

The Shade Garden is located in the western part of Paradise Lawn and Heavenly Pond. The land area of this garden is only 1.2 hectares and it is divided into a number of irregular small areas. A small quiet and beautiful creek cuts across the middle. About a thousand shade-tolerant plants are planted in this garden, mainly include Gesneriads, ferns, carnivorous plants, bryophytes, Araceae, Bromeliaceae, Begonia, Hoya, and bamboos. Several species of national protection such as Alsophila spinulosa , Angiopteris fokiensis , Camellia petelotii and Isoetes sinensis are cultivated here.

Gesneriad Show

Fairy Lake Botanical Garden has always adhered to the principle of combining conservation, horticulture, and science education to construct specialized gardens. This time, we will highlight the newly opened Gesneriad Garden. The garden is divided into a Popular Science Classroom and a Natural Habitat exhibit. This educational display has carefully arranged beautiful gesneriad cultivars, combined with potted plants and exhibition boards. The Natural Habitat section simulates karst landforms, and provides a shady and humid habitat for the growth of gesneriads. Please enjoy the diverse colors and textures of the gesneriads here.

Exhibitor: Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden
Designers: SHEN Yue, HE Fang, HONG Linyan, XIE Xiaorong, SUO Xiu, ZHENG Yajing, HUANG Xinggao, ZHOU Yi, YAN Tingping, LIU Nan, WANG Wei, LUO Ruxia, HOU Zhenwen, HUANG Liaoyuan, XU Xiaojuan, ZHANG Haiyang, LIN Ruide
Designed: Shenzhen Meidao Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning & Design Institute (MED)
Constructed: Shenzhen Guangxin Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.
Plant exhibited: QIU Zhijing, QIN Mi, LIANG Qiongfang, LIU Wanchang, WANG Jiren, WANG Haihong, ZHANG Dongqiong, HU Chengxian, XU Mingxuan, DUAN Qiliang, LUO Hanqing, ZHU Zhanming

The Last Seed

When there is only the last seed left in the world, the once homeland will be deserted. In this exhibit, the surviving human beings take the last seed and embark on a journey. They shelter and care for the seed in their future home. It germinates, and humanity is saved. This design warns about environmental degradation through contrasting design elements of desolation and vitality. It appeals people to protect natural resources. The role of plants in reducing and fixing carbon and its significance to mankind are examined. Finally, the design reflects the pioneering spirit of Shenzhen, from a remote village to a vibrant and prosperous metropolis.

Designed: Beijing Forestry University
Designers: YANG Jingming, XIE Shixian, ZHANG Qingran, SUN Jinlu, ZHOU Lijun
Instructors: LIN Qing, WEI Fang

Net and Knot

The design takes the marine ecological culture of the Greater Bay Area as the source of inspiration, and exploring the fishing culture that is indispensable for the development of the Greater Bay Area. The ‘net’ connects the Greater Bay Area’s past, present, and future. The Shenzhen Flower Show provides an opportunity to link the Greater Bay Area, the country and the world.
The main element of this design is discarded fishing nets. Combining fishing nets with a garden creates a place where people, nature and the Greater Bay Area are interconnected and connected. Visitors walk through the garden as if they are swimming in the ocean. People will think about the relationship between human beings, the sea, and other organisms when they visit and better understand the concept of environmental protection. We look forward to creating a more attractive Greater Bay Area and happier life for people.

Designed: University of Hyogo (Japan)
Designers: SU Yuanyuan, WANG Zilan
Instructor: SHEN Yue

Blossoming Waiting for Water

In response to the low-carbon theme and the need of saving water in the Greater Bay Area, ‘water’has become the theme of the design. Everyday waste materials are used to build a ‘water cycle’ framework. Gravel paving used is another example of the low-carbon nature of this garden. A variety of water connection modes shows the sustainable utilization of water. Hippeastrum is the central flower in this garden, combined with local spring ornamentals. Various planting methods form three major landscape areas, showing the relationship between water availability and plants. People can walk through the garden and participate in the water cycle with pedal-powered pumps and hand-held sprinklers. We hope to raise visitors’ awareness of water-saving techniques through this garden exhibit.

Designed: Beijing Forestry University
Designers: JIA Lyuyuan, MIAO Chensong, JIA Wenzhen, QIU Tianqi, CAO Xuqing
Instructors: LIN Qing, HAO Peiyao

Iced Coconut Latté

Shenzhen is an international city full of youth and vitality. In the long and hot summer, beverages have become an essential part of Shenzheners’ daily life. The bottles and cans have great recycling potential. The design focuses on the typical scenes in Shenzhen’s everyday life. It extracts three design elements: the soda in the store’s refrigerator, the fresh coconuts on the seaside stall, and the coffee on the commuter road. Beverage waste is used to create a variety of landscapes, forming ‘Listen the Cool Summer’, ‘Beach Pie Pair’ and ‘First Cup of Coffee in the Morning’. The three units show the 3R low-carbon concept of ‘Reuse, Recreate and Recycle.’ Creative works of glass bottles, coconut shells and coffee grounds are scattered in the colorful flowers. The three water-drop shaped structures in the garden form a beautiful picture of the ‘Iced Coconut Latté’, calling on everyone to enjoy a low-carbon and happy life in Shenzhen.

Designed: Beijing Forestry University
Designers: CHEN Yao, FAN Hong, FAN Xing, ZHU Muyao, HE Sixian
Instructors: LI Liang, LI Guanheng

Regaining Blue Bay, and Reviving Sea Life

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area enjoys an excellent environment by the sea. However, due to the rapid urbanization in recent years, the coastal ecology faces significant challenges.
Inspired by the goal of restoring the beauty of the bay area, we set up a garden named ‘protecting the sea’. We simulated sea level rise based on the topography of the bay area. Then the relationship between coral and jellyfish is extracted. Finally, litter from the beach, the sea, and the seabed were selected to set up an interactive science project using recyclable materials. Then, flowers and herbs were used to create an undersea scene. The aims are to arouse people’s awareness of environmental protection, encourage waste and garbage classification and recycling, and develop a commitment to a low-carbon life.

Designed: Shenzhen University
Designers: HUANG Shuyu, ZHANG Manjia, CHEN Yuxi, DENG Mengting
Instructors: WANG Chunxiao, Christiane M. Herr

New Varieties of Ornamental Plants

Low-carbon initiatives have become an increasingly important issue in urban life. This has become an indispensable part of people’s daily lives, combined with appreciating beauty wherever it is found. Can we create a sonata of flowers with sustainability that every visitor to the flower show will enjoy?
Inspired by the theme Happy Life in Low-Carbon City, the 2022 new varieties venue brings together the latest achievements in modern horticulture from 14 countries, including the UK, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Japan, Peru, China, the USA, Italy, Israel, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland and Germany. The exhibit also features discarded and recycled objects that have been transformed by professional designers and garden enthusiasts.
New varieties are no longer confined to individual pavilions in the seven zones. They are integrated into different modes throughout indoor and outdoor landscapes. Creative flower paths link all the zones, with flowers on both sides, like a walk in painting. Balcony gardens, flower bulbs, hanging flowers, flowering walls, and small courtyards scatter here and there to showcase a range of new varieties. Strolling by the rounded flower pavilion and other pavilions will bring you 360 degrees of enjoyment. The magical presentation of the theme flower Hippeastrum will bring good luck to all of us!