Who knows, Jiading Wisteria Garden is so beautiful that it's a must-know for sisters!
🌸Wisteria Garden:
Located on the south bank of the ancient city river in Jiading, Jiading Wisteria Garden was built in 1997 and opened in 2000. It is the first wisteria-themed park in China.
The 1990s were the honeymoon period of friendship between the two countries, and the wisteria was a fine variety provided by Okayama Prefecture and Nankai Town in Japan. At that time, Mr. Michio Fujimoto, the then mayor of Nankai Town, donated and personally grafted and cultivated dozens of varieties and more than 100 wisteria plants.
Wisteria is a vigorous climbing plant that must be pruned twice a year to ensure beautiful blooms, once in January for winter pruning and once in May for summer pruning. Since the garden was established, Mr. Fujimoto has visited Jiading at least twice a year to guide the pruning and management of the wisteria. As he grew older, he knew that one day he would no longer be able to prune personally, so in May 2017, he specially selected five masters from the staff of the Wisteria Garden to be his apprentices, passing on the techniques of wisteria pruning and management.
🌸Wisteria Bloom:
The park covers an area of more than 10,000 square meters. In the small garden, there are branches and vines of different varieties of wisteria. During the blooming season, wisteria flower clusters hang down from the green leaves, dreamy and beautiful. What's different here is the rich colors of the wisteria, including not only the common light purple and dark purple but also white and pink, creating a romantic gradient.
Due to its fame, the park is crowded during the blooming season. Those who want to take photos are advised to come early or avoid the weekend peak.
🌸Wisteria Blooming Period:
Mid to late April, the blooming period lasts for about twenty days.
Photos taken in late April, it's unclear whether it's an equipment issue or a weather issue, but post-production color adjustment is necessary, yet it still doesn't restore the beauty seen with the eyes.
🌸Nearby Attractions:
South City Wall Park / South Water Pass Park: Along the ancient city wall with wisteria corridor ¥0
Zhouqiao Old Street: Fahua Pagoda, Stone Bridge Old Street, ancient town flavor ¥0
Qiuxia Garden: Ming Dynasty ancient garden, autumn maple appreciation ¥10
Jiading Museum: A county-level museum where humanity and nature coexist, stamp available ¥0
Huilongtan: Filming location of 'Flirting Scholar' ¥5
🌸Recommended Routes:
① Half-day tour: Wisteria Garden → Zhouqiao Old Street → Jiading Museum → Qiuxia Garden
② One-day tour: Wisteria Garden → Zhouqiao Old Street → Jiading Museum → Qiuxia Garden → Huilongtan Park → South City Wall/South Water Pass Park
🏠Address: No. 45, Bole Road, Jiading District
🈺Business Hours: 7:00—18:00 (No entry after 17:30)
⚠️Flow Limit: Temporary control when instantaneous visitor number ≥1800, enter from the east side and exit from the west side, clockwise one-way route in the park
🎫Ticket: ¥0
🚌Transport: Transfer to bus Jiading 9/12/13 at Jiading North Station on Metro Line 11
🅿️Parking: Xianchang North/Han Tianheng ¥5/hr, Lengcheng Xintiandi ¥5/hr, Bole Plaza ¥8/hr, No. 73 Bole Road ¥6/hr (tight), Jiading East Street ¥0 (tight)
In the middle of April, there were quite a lot of people in the afternoon of the weekdays. The door was full of cars and people. It was not easy to walk. Many aunts and uncles in the garden took pictures there. The whole garden is not big, it is enough to take pictures for more than half an hour. I am very happy to see a lot of uncommon varieties and uncommon colors. After visiting the park and the ancient town opposite the garden, you can punch in together.
Every year in mid-to-late April, it is the season of the wisteria flowers. A string of flowers are like grapes, which fall from the vine rack, with purple, pink and white. The wisteria garden brings together more than 30 varieties of fine wisteria from all over Japan. Wisteria is a large vine with long life and thick leaves. Before cultivation, build a solid and durable scaffolding, planting in early spring, and tie the rough branches to the rack to help it climb along the rack. Wisteria root is deep, has strong drought resistance, and likes wet soil. In winter, nitrogen fertilizer, calcium perphosphate, etc., compound fertilizer after flowering to meet the growth needs. Cultivation can be used to plant, press strip, sowing, grafting and other methods to reproduce, the key is reasonable pruning and artificial traction to make the branches evenly distributed. The vine flower is beautiful, mainly divided into Chinese wisteria, North American wisteria, Japanese wisteria. Jiading wisteria garden is mainly divided into Japanese multi-flower wisteria, and is divided into mountain vine system, wild field vine system. The mountain vine system has a purple flower beautiful short, red flower beautiful short, white flower beautiful short. The Noda vines flowered in late April to early May, and were divided into purple (from the length of the flowers to the length of the nine-foot vine, six-foot vine, Noda vine, one-year-old vine), pink, and double. Many parks have wisteria corridors, usually can see the vine climbing, to the flower season can see the beauty.
In fact, the Wisteria Garden is not only when the Wisteria flowers can be opened. In different seasons, the Wisteria Garden will also open other varieties of flowers, but there is not much publicity, but the surrounding residents will come to stroll around in their leisure time.
The Wisteria Garden in Jiading is a very famous Wisteria ornamental park in Shanghai. Although the park area is not very large, the variety of Wisteria is very complete. Every mid-to-late April is the flowering period of Wisteria. The park visitors are like weaving. A string of Wisteria flowers falls down. The park is like a purple sea of flowers. It's beautiful.
It is said that there are only four Wisteria-themed parks in the world. The three one? It's really nice to have such a place in Jiading, Shanghai. It's very convenient to have a subway now. To Jiading West Railway Station, take Jiading No. 11. All the buses are middle-aged and old people who go to Wisteria Garden. The park is free, and the cherry blossoms on the roadside at the entrance of the park are very beautiful, but now the blooming season is almost over, and half of the flowers are spent. There is no prosperity of cherry blossoms. Next year, we can also consider cherry blossoms here. Wisteria flower long corridor, Wisteria string hanging down, very beautiful, did not expect the scent of Wisteria so fragrant. The wisteria in this garden is donated by Japanese friends. It is not only purple, but also pink, white and yellow. The garden is small and has a lotus pond. It would be better if there were a small rockery and pavilions in the garden. Not far from the Wisteria Garden is Huilongtan Park, a Chinese garden park, compact and compact, and a good look by the way.