Trees and shrubs such as red plum, green plum, wintersweet, nandina domestica, pyracantha fortunei, loquat, gardenia, pine, bamboo, lotus, fir, peony, camellia and rose in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, as well as Soviet-style bonsai with pine, fir and cypress as the main body, with winter red fruit, hawthorn, papaya, rhododendron, elm and bromeliad.
2. Many landscapes in the garden are directly or indirectly related to plants, such as loquat garden, Yuanxiangtang, Yulantang, Haitang Spring House, Liutingge and Tingyuxuan. They all take plant naming as the landscape theme, some directly take plant materials as the material, and some indirectly express some artistic conception or interest through plant materials.
3. The form of plant landscaping is based on natural layout, without plastic asymmetry, and the technique is nothing more than directly imitating nature or indirectly getting inspiration from traditional landscape paintings. The posture and lines of plants are mostly firm and soft.
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Overview of Humble Administrator's Garden;
1. Humble Administrator's Garden covers an area of 78 mu (about 52,000 square meters) and is divided into four parts: East, Middle, West and Residential. Folk houses are typical Suzhou folk houses, which are arranged as exhibition halls of garden museums. Most of the existing buildings in the Humble Administrator's Garden were rebuilt when the Humble Administrator's Garden became the loyal palace garden of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the ninth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (AD 1850). By the end of the Qing Dynasty, three relatively independent small gardens were formed in the east, middle and west.
2. The existing water surface in the middle of Humble Administrator's Garden is nearly six mu, accounting for about one third of the garden area. "All pavilions and pavilions are based on water", creating a cheerful atmosphere in a large area of water garden space, basically maintaining the characteristics of "bare forest" in the Ming Dynasty.