Yuanda Begonia Garden in Tianjin

Tianjin Yuanda Begonia Garden was established in 2010, covering an area of 2200 mu. It is located in Jinghai District of Tianjin, near Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, 80 km from Beijing and 50 km from Xiong’an New Area. It mainly planted 200,000 begonia crabapples introduced from the United States and grafted with domestic rootstocks. The seedlings have grown very well in the past ten years. Among them, more than 150,000 trees are over 8 cm in diameter, more than 20,000 trees are over 10 cm in diameter, and thousands of trees are over 20 cm in diameter and 7 meters in height, with a 5-meter crown diameter. Now it’s the largest North American crabapple base in China and well known both in Beijing and Tianjin. It possesses the basic conditions of selling large quantities of seedlings, rebuilding large parks, building joint development projects and accumulating assets.

In the past 10 years, the growth of seedlings has adapted to the soil, climate, temperature and environment in China. Their basal diameter has grown from 3 cm to 25 cm, with an average annual growth of more than 2 cm. Now the seedlings are growing every year, and their prices are also rising with their growth.

North American crabapple was introduced to China from the United States. After more than 10 years of planting experiments and training, the practice proved that it was a right choice. North American crabapple is cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant and saline-alkali-tolerant (tree species). It blossoms in spring and has a large number of flowers, such as bright red, purple red, pink and white. The whole tree is full of flowers, both inside and outside, which is very spectacular. They begin to bear fruit in July, the fruits will turn into red ones in Autumn, which make red fruits full of trees, attracting birds flying around, human and bird living in harmony. The red fruits hang until the Spring Festival. When it snows, it looks beautiful in the snow. Every year during the blooming and fruiting periods, people will come to enjoy flowers and fruits spontaneously, they move around, laughing.

In 2015, Tianjin Tourism Bureau and Jinghai District People’s Government urged us to open nurseries and show such beautiful flowers to the public. Nurseries do not lock their doors. Instead, they open their doors for tourism, hold a crabapple cultural festival, and give them a good place to watch flowers, relax and travel. We have held four “Tianjin Begonia Festival” so far. During the period of Begonia Festival, nearly 70,000 people, men, women, old and young, come to visit flowers every year. Tianjin Television Station, Jinghai Television Station, People’s Network, Xinhua Network and other media have reported many times and given a good evaluation. At the same time, Jinghai District Government and Tianjin Tourism Bureau give some tourism subsidies every year, which benefits us a lot.