Where does Shanghai Zoo belong?

Shanghai Zoo is a famous leisure and holiday attraction in Shanghai.

After half a century's construction, Shanghai Zoo has become one of the best ecological gardens in Shanghai. There are more than 600 kinds of rare wild animals here, including giant pandas, golden monkeys, South China tigers and other rare wild animals in China, as well as chimpanzees, giraffes, polar bears, kangaroos and other representative animals from all over the world. In line with the development of generations, Shanghai Zoo has rebuilt and built a visually barrier-free ecological animal exhibition area year by year, making visitors feel as if they are in nature and enjoy the beauty of wild interest.

There are nearly 600 kinds of trees and more than 654.38 million plants in the park, especially the fresh and open lawn of 654.38 million square meters, which basically maintains the topography of the golf course 50 years ago. Every greening and beautification in the park is combined with the ecological environment of animals. In particular, Swan Lake, surrounded by reeds inside and outside the lake area, flocks of pelicans and geese often soar in the blue sky with graceful and vigorous posture.

Shanghai Zoo has developed from a simple visit to historical sites in the early days into a comprehensive park with four functions of entertainment, animal knowledge popularization, scientific and technological research and wildlife protection, receiving nearly/kloc-0.5 billion visitors.

Shanghai Zoo, with its beautiful garden landscape, wonderful wildlife world, ecological wildlife exhibition area and places where people and animals live in harmony, has left visitors with beautiful memories and love for nature.

Shanghai Zoo has a history of nearly 50 years since its establishment. In the process of development, it gradually formed its own guiding ideology for development. Pursuing the harmony between animals and environment, man and animals, man and nature is the general trend of the development of zoos in the world and the guiding ideology of the development of zoos.

In recent years, in order to make the park landscape more in line with the natural and harmonious ecological zoo, the park greening construction has been qualitative and quantitative, and the greening design concept is advanced, pursuing the design concept of "modern, open, natural and friendly", with scientific and reasonable layout and distinctive functional characteristics. Persist in constantly creating new visual feelings for tourists, satisfy people's desire for novelty and novelty, coordinate the greening landscape with the environment inside and outside the animal exhibition area to the maximum extent, and form a "fine, unique and wild" natural ecological zoo landscape.

The zoo has a good greening environment and a good gardening foundation. The landscape is characterized by large lawns and big trees. In recent years, the greening landscapes that have been transformed one after another mainly include: park gate landscape, three-dimensional flower beds, outdoor playground of amphibian and reptile pavilion, exposed land of skating rink, landscape in front of green space pavilion, and transformation of southwest green space of Panda Ridge.

In order to highlight the personalized creation of zoo gardening, animal ecology should be integrated into the big greening of the park: animal exhibition area should be combined with animal ecology; According to different landscape needs, new superior plants are introduced on both sides of the main road to reflect plant diversity and biological diversity, so that the plant community has layers, seasons and landscapes.

Combined with the transformation of the park, the zoo has built some flower border landscape areas, and planted some beautiful and colorful waterfront plants on both sides of the river in the park, such as yellow heart, wisteria, safflower and calamus. , in order to enrich the overall landscape level and increase the landscape effect.

Over the years, perennial flowers have been selected in the tree altar and forest edge according to local conditions, and various types of flower borders have been opened up one after another, which has made the plant community rich in layers and distinct in four seasons, that is, fine, wild but not chaotic, ecological and natural, and greatly enriched the landscape of the park.

The flower border forms are rich and colorful, including the combination of water body layout and landscaping-the flower border of the hydrophilic platform of Lvye Pavilion; There are mainly herbal flowers that highlight the bright colors of flowers-the flower border of Menkou Avenue; Woody flowers with outstanding flower groups and seasonal change effects-the first-line landscape road of primate pavilion, the green space in front of two climbing pavilions, the woody flower border of space shuttle, etc. There are shade plants as the main configuration-palm forest, Metasequoia forest, giraffe pavilion flower bed and other flower borders on the main road; There are trees, shrubs, grass-sliding flower borders and other multi-level configuration of mixed flower borders.

In these flower borders, a large number of new excellent flower plants are cited, such as woody flowers: Rhododendron, Cassia corymbosa, Cassia bipinnata, Jin Yan Spiraea, Spiraea Jinshan, Spiraea farinosa, Lagerstroemia, Hypericum perforatum, Buddleja, etc. Ground cover plants: Wufeng grass, Huoxue Dan, Canna, Fugui grass, Mars flower, Hosta, Hemerocallis fulva, Polygonatum odoratum, Ajuga multiflora and so on. Aquatic plants: Acorus calamus, Acorus gramineus, water wax, onion, Sagittarius, taro, etc. There are also exotic flowers and herbs that came to Shanghai for the first time: delphinium grandiflorum like hundreds of birds playing among the flowers, Celastraceae and torch flowers with unique inflorescences, beautiful evening primrose known as pink beauty, yarrow with colorful leaves and beautiful trumpet daffodils. These wild perennial flowers are mixed with one-or two-year-old grass flowers with bright colors and different shapes, creating a colorful, warm and elegant atmosphere. Perennial flowers bring people information about seasonal changes, decorate the scenery lively and make people linger back and forth.

Adopt the natural collocation method of multi-variety mixing, consciously choose some honey-source flowers to attract insects and butterflies to collect honey, thus forming a natural wild landscape. Elegant fragrance and different forms of flowers will bring people olfactory and visual enjoyment and fun. All kinds of flowers are scattered like beating notes. All kinds of blooming flowers not only attract hardworking bees and dancing butterflies, but also attract tourists who like photography.

The landscape of flower border green space composed of perennial flowers is rich and colorful, ecological and natural, reflecting the artistic conception of "returning to simplicity", which will bring people different feelings, meet different ornamental needs, meet people's multi-angle ornamental needs, create different visual effects and form a natural plant community landscape.