Beijing, the northern city, embraces amazing flowers in spring. You can witness plum flowers, yulan magnolia, malus spectabilis and oriental cherry flowers etc.
Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins Park
The optimum period for appreciating plum blossoms here lasts from mid-March to mid-April. During the period, the Plum Blossom Festival will kick off and brings forth dozen of plum blossoms in red, white, green, pink and other colors. They add brilliance to vicissitudinary city walls, picturing distinctive scenery like “Spring Dawn of Ancient City”, “Sea of Flowers” and “Western Mountain Diffused with Flowers Fragrance”.
Address: No. 9 Chongwenmen East Avenue, Chongwen District崇文区崇文门东大街9号
Ticket: free (Ming City Wall); 10 yuan for adult, 5 yuan for student
Tel.: 010-65270574
Route: take Subway Line 2 and get off at Chongwenmen Station (崇文门站).
Summer Palace
In the wake of chilly winter, Yulan magnolias planted in the front of Hall of Joy and Longevity will burst into flowers. Beloved by Empress Dowager Cixi, blooming flowers are full of vitality in the sunshine and make the Hall of Joy and Longevity exceptionally beautiful and splendid.
Address: No.19 Xinjiangongmen Road, Haidian District海淀区新建宫门路19号
Ticket: 50 yuan per person
Route: take Subway Xijiao Line (西郊线) to the west gate of Summer Palace; take Subway Line 4 to Beigongmen Station (北宫门).
Yuan Dynasty City Wall Relics Park
“Haitang Huaxi” (The malus spectabilis Blossoms Serried Brook), a scenic spot in Yuan Dynasty City Wall Relics Park, enjoys a high reputation for its wildly blooming Chinese Flowering Crabapples. All varieties of crabapple blossoms here come out in a rush in time, such as midget malus spectabilis blossoms and hall malus spectabilis blossoms. The “Chinese Flowering Malus Spectabilis Festival” held in the Park is one of the three biggest “Flower Events” in Beijing, and the other two are “Peach Flower Festival” in Beijing Botanical Garden and “Cherry Flower Festival” in Yuyuantan Park.
Address: Jian'an East Road, Chaoyang District朝阳区健安东路
Traffic guide: take Subway Line 10 and get off at anyone of HuixinxijieNankou (惠新西街南口), Anzhenmen Station (安贞门站), Beitucheng (北土城站), Jiandemen (健德门站), Mudanyuan (牡丹园站) and Xitucheng (西土城站)
Yuyuantan Park
Located in Haidian District, Yuyuantan Park is a good place to appreciate the beauty of cherry blossoms. As the temperature changes, some cherries may be early in blossom. This short-lived flower usually lasts from the last ten days of March to the middle ten days of April, but the early cherries only lasts for seven days. When the flowering plums are in bloom on the roadsides, you’re told it’s the right time to enjoy the cherries in Yuyuantan Park.
Yuyuantan Park has more than 40-year history of planting and cultivating cherry blossom. In recent years, the new cherry scenic spot in the park has been designed by taking full consideration of the colors, surrounding landscape elements and the culture of early cherries, with “Miles of Cherry Embankment” waterside cherry blossoms and cherry blossoms all over the mountain landscapes created. The self-cultivated colorful “hill cherry” plants are broadly planted in the park, which are in complete harmony with the terrain, topography and cultural atmosphere, forming a harmonious ecological environment and making the park present an entirely new look. The new landscape will be ready in future cherry blossom seasons.
Every spring, the "Cherry Blossom Festival" will be held in Yuyuantan Park, presenting more than two thousands of cherry trees which look like rosy clouds. The breeze is gently blowing your face, the snow-like petals is flying into the sky, this romantic scene attracts crowds of people, and makes them immerse into it.
Address:No.10 West 3rd Ring Middle Road, Haidian District 海淀区西三环中路10号
Traffic Guide: Take Bus 320, 114, 717 or 727 and get off at Mixidibei Stop (木樨地北站)
