John W. Sorenson and Joseph R. Parinella, design supervisors at the Shanghai Disneyland Landscape Department, led a 20-person design team to visit Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden on Sept 9.
Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden will hold the Chenshan Autumn Flower Show during this year's National Day holiday and Shanghai Tourism Festival.
An ornamental plant research team from the Research Center of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden attended the American Begonia Society (ABS) Convention 2012 in San Diego, California from August 4 to August 26. The research team gave a lecture entitled "History, Resources, Scientific Research and Industry of Begonias in China" at the convention.
The 10th Songjiang "Root of Shanghai" Cultural Tourism Festival and 2012 Songjiang Shopping Festival will be held on Sept 17 at Songjiang Kaiyuan-Mediterranean Plaza in Shanghai.
The Shanghai Happy Valley Carnival Festival successfully finished on August 26. The carnival festival lasted 58 days from July 30 to August 26 and impressed tourists with a fun summer experience.
Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden is preparing for the 2012 Chenshan Autumn Flower Show by utilizing new methods to popularize scientific knowledge. The show's new methods make use of new media and are geared towards the needs of teenage visitors.
Jiang Kai and two other research assistants from Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden have won the 2013 BGCI-KFBG Travel Scholarship, sponsored by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG). They will go to Hong Kong to receive training at KFBG from Jan 21 to Feb 2, 2013.
Chinese tradition says at the very beginning of a new year, when there's a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate and thus, the Lantern Festival is celebrated in winter.