Chengdu Botanical Garden Great Lawn
Sweeping lawn on a former burial hill, awash each spring in tulips and cherry blossoms.
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This guide to the Great Lawn at Chengdu Botanical Garden traces what the ground beneath the picnic blankets used to be: an unmarked burial hill, planted over with trees through the last years of the Republic and into the 1950s just to tidy it. It follows a retired Sichuan University botany professor's push in the early 1980s to turn the old forestry farm into something new, and the swift two years it took the city to act on his idea. Walk the eastern woodland section, edged by red pine and oak, where the first modest gardens once stood.
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