culture

The Central Botanical Garden has been successful in cultivating and breeding garden plants.

Recently, the researchers have completed the growing and breeding methods of more than 10 species of garden plants including rare gift plants presented to the peerlessly great leaders from different countries and newly registered them as national species, thus opening up a prospect for making landscaping diverse and more characteristic.

As the newly registered “purplish” red maple and “purple-leaf” smoke tree have distinctive leaf colours and shapes, they can be widely applied to landscaping of streets and villages.

The “incarnadine” crape myrtle which bears beautiful, long-blooming flowers is a good species to be planted in ornamental pots as well as in parks to enhance the scenic beauty.

Several kinds of gift plants including “autumn” coleus and parti-coloured Peperomia obtusifolia, which have high ornamental and practical values indoors, are widely spread and cultivated to give pleasure to people.