When is the best time to go to Ningxiang Garden?

The best time for Ningxiang Garden: suitable for all seasons.

Ningxiang Garden, also known as Zheng Chunyuan, is located in Yuelou Administrative Village, Yuecheng Office in the east of Heze City. It was built in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Originally owned by Yuan, it was named Yuanjiatang Garden. Later, the Yuan family declined. He was bought by He Yingrui, a scholar in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and a native of He Lou Village in the east of Heze City. It is also called Heyuan, and the famous river and peony are produced for this garden.

This garden has flourished for 400 years. According to Mr. Liu, who has been a gardener for three generations in this garden, 1933, Mr. Feng Yuxiang lived in seclusion in Mount Tai and bought 500 wintersweet plants from the garden at one time to beautify Mount Tai. At that time, even the big Hu Hong, which was widely circulated by Zhao Lou and Li Ji, was bought from this garden. It can be seen that Ningxiang Garden at that time was full of flowers. After he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown, He Yingrui wrote "Peony" in seven ways, describing the peony in Heyuan: he dreamed of garden flowers for twenty years, and now he has arrived home. How many new names are added to the old spectrum, because many old species have become new buds. The wind is swaying in various ways, and the shadow is oblique. Leave a drunken guest for the East Emperor, so that Danxia can be protected in sunny days. It was not until the end of 1937 that the Japanese invaders invaded Heze and fell.

At present, there is only 10 mu left, with less than 3 mu of peony specially planted, more than 70 varieties of peony, and more than 40 kinds of other miscellaneous flowers, such as thorn plum, Erythrina, Yuguo, Ginkgo, Lingxiao, yellow bud, crape myrtle, rose, pomegranate, papaya, persimmon, leading jujube and begonia. There are more than a hundred years of juniper, a hundred years of wintersweet, lilacs, a thousand years of cypress and a rockery in the garden. He Yingrui Cemetery near Ningxiang Garden is towering with cypresses.