Located in the west of Mangshan China, Luoyang City/
Brief introduction of Luoyang National Peony Garden;
Ouyang Xiu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote in the story of Luoyang Peony: "The flower of Luoyang is the most suitable, and peony is especially strange in the world." This sentence shows that Luoyang's "geographical vein" makes peony unique.
Luoyang is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the western part of the Central Plains and the eastern end of the Loess Plateau. The climate here is mild and the soil is fertile, which is very suitable for peony planting. As early as the Sui Dynasty, a large number of peonies were planted in Xiyuan, a royal garden. Luoyang peony is famous for its variety and exotic colors. Therefore, the famous phrase "Luoyang peony is the best in the world" has spread all over the world.
Luoyang is rich in peony, and there is a very interesting legend among the people.
It is said that on a snowy day in the middle of winter, Wu Zetian drank wine and wrote a poem, and wrote a letter with a drunken pen: The Ming Dynasty swam into the garden to announce the spring, and the flowers must be released overnight, so don't wait for the breeze. Hundreds of flowers were overwhelmed by this fate and bloomed overnight, only peony could not resist. Wu Zetian was furious and demoted the peony to Luoyang. As soon as the strong and unyielding peony arrived in Luoyang, it was in full bloom with its head held high, which angered Wuhou even more and ordered the peony to be burned. Who knows that although the peony branches are burnt, they bloom more in the next spring. People have a preference for peony, which is known as the peony with strong muscles and bones. In the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu compared the peonies from different regions of China and came to the conclusion that the peonies in Luoyang are the best in the world today. From then on, Luoyang Peony ranked first in the world.
Guose Peony Garden, also known as Luoyang National Peony Gene Bank in China, is located in Zhonggou, west of Mangshan Mountain in Luoyang City. Peony Garden covers an area of 700 mu, divided into South Garden and North Garden, with an area of 400 mu and 300 mu of seedlings. More than 500 domestic peony horticultural varieties, 6 wild species, 72 new varieties and more than 500 thousand plants were collected. Introduced 100 more than 50,000 foreign horticultural varieties. Cultivate 300,000 high-quality commercial peonies with nine colors, complete varieties and bright flowers every year. At present, it has become the largest production base for introduction and domestication of wild peony, cultivation of new varieties and reproduction of commercial peony in China.
Luoyang Guose Peony Garden began to collect and introduce new peony varieties from all over the country from 1984 to cultivate wild peony. 10 Over the years, more than 450 peony varieties and more than 300,000 plants have been bred in China, and more than 70 new peony varieties have been selected. Now, in the National Peony Garden, Qingxi Bibo is full of treasures. Every flower show, the fragrance of flowers is intoxicating.
While doing a good job in production, Guose Peony Garden pays more attention to scientific research and market development, and has successively undertaken the research on peony cultivation and annual flowering technology, which has achieved success. Established a marketing network system, and sold 654.38+10,000 peonies at home and abroad every year. It has been rated as an advanced unit by the State Forestry Department and Henan Forestry Department for six times. /kloc-0 was designated as Luoyang peony export base by China Forestry Seed Company in May, 1999, and was also designated as the national flower production demonstration base by the State Forestry Administration and China Flower Agreement in February of the same year.
In March 2002, the national color peony garden ushered in a good opportunity for development. After the Municipal Forestry Bureau took over, in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the municipal party committee and the municipal government on establishing a 10,000-mu peony industrial belt in Mangshan, the party group of the Municipal Forestry Bureau put forward the idea of building a national color peony garden to drive the peony industry to develop in a large-scale and collectivized way, and raised more than RMB1000, and comprehensively implemented the reconstruction and expansion project with high starting point and high quality, and built the gate of the north campus and the parking lot of RMB 80,000. Leisure Square 10000_, 5 tourist public toilets, 20000m newly-built garden road, artificial lake 1500_, expanding 300 mu of peony ornamental gardens at home and abroad and increasing 20,000 _. Planting all kinds of trees1.2000 will make the garden look brand-new, and a brand-new Chinese peony will welcome guests at the peony flower show.
Guose Peony Garden is located in the Yang of Mangshan Mountain, with convenient transportation, 4 kilometers away from the urban area and 5 kilometers away from expressway, Luoyang, and 3 10 national highway passes through the territory. The traffic is very convenient.