Elegant spring flowers bloom in Chenshan Botanical Garden

LMS
Updated: April 9, 2021

Pink and white Yoshino cherry blossoms are in full bloom at Cheshan Botanical Garden. [Photo/WeChat account: sheshanlvyou]

With the arrival of April, more and more kinds of spring flowers are now in full bloom -- delighting visitors to the Cheshan Botanical Garden in the Songjiang district of East China's Shanghai city.

The pink and white Yoshino cherry, as well as various types of tulips and begonias, are now transforming the garden with a riot of vivid colors.

The Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden covers an area of 207 hectares with approximately 10,000 plant species, making it the largest botanical garden in East China.

Address: No 3888 Chenhua Road, Shanghai Sheshan National Tourist Resort, Songjiang district, Shanghai

Wonderfully vivid tulips are now in bloom, in bordered areas planted according to their colors, at the Cheshan Botanical Garden. [Photo/WeChat account: sheshanlvyou]

The Malus Evereste -- an ornamental cultivar of the crabapple -- boasts dazzling, unusually large white flowers in April, opening from scarlet flower buds that fade to pink. It is one of the stars of the garden at the moment. [Photo/WeChat account: sheshanlvyou]