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The main buildings of the Expo

The Qinling Garden is located on Xiaozhongnan Mountain in the park, with the theme of "showcasing the natural landscape, rare animals and characteristic plants of the Qinling Mountains".

The park has "four gardens and eight sceneries", with Animal Happy Valley, Monkey Mountain, Bear Paradise, and Birds Forest as the core. It imitates the natural landscape, cultural landscape, animal and plant resources of the Qinling Mountains, and creates a comprehensive tourism, sightseeing, and

A garden space integrating leisure functions.

The park combines the surrounding topography and landforms with mountains, rocks, and water management for planting. All scenic spots are built based on fragments of the Qinling Mountains. The Taoist temples in the park, together with the colorful Zhongnan and Chang'an Pagodas, the five major themed garden attractions, jointly create a unique Qinling Mountains.

religious and cultural landscape and atmosphere.

In order to display the rich plant landscape characteristics of the Qinling Mountains and combined with the landscape topography of the park, the Qinling Garden will plant camphor trees, Eucommia ulmoides, Magnolia officinalis, yew, Liriodendron tulipifera, Lilacia macrophylla, rhododendron azalea, fragrant thorn, whitebark pine, crabapple, and magnolia.

, weeping willow, Sophora japonica, saponaria, fragrant tree, cork oak, velvet hazel, white bauhinia, spruce, moso bamboo, kiwi fruit, osmanthus, eucalyptus, ginkgo, crabapple, ancient crape myrtle, palm, bamboo,

There are more than 30 species of nationally endangered plants such as walnut trees, tung trees, persimmon trees, chestnut trees, Albizia julibrissin, horse chestnut, white birch, tabulaeformis pine, velveteen spirea, brown sedge, purple peony, feathery lilac, etc., Shaanxi

There are more than 40 species of provincially protected plants.

The "World Garden" exhibition area of ??Xi'an World Expo Park is located on an island surrounded by water of about 18,000 square meters. It displays ancient Greek gardens, Italian terrace gardens, French classical gardens, British natural landscape gardens, Spanish Islamic gardens, etc.

Ancient Greek Garden The Ancient Greek Garden is located on the north side of the World Courtyard, covering an area of ??about 2,000 square meters.

The whole park is divided into three parts, from west to east, Soros Square, Sacred Grove, and Lion Gate.

The Greek Garden takes the Greek Delphi ruins square (i.e. Soros Square) as the main body. Sculptures of the 12 main gods of Greek mythology are scattered among the trees. A lion gate is set up at the east entrance, and two stone pillars carry bow-shaped stone beams.

Above the beam is an arch made of boulders, and on the front of the boulder is a set of reliefs: two symmetrical lions, one on the left and one on the right, standing on the altar, with a pillar symbolizing the palace standing in the middle.

The Italian Terrace Garden Terrace Garden adopts the layout of several consecutive terraces and adopts the composition form of central axis symmetry.

The central axis is a wide gentle slope from the platform to the viewing gallery.

Dolphins are arranged on both sides of the water, and in the middle is a centipede-shaped stone water tank, forming a series of falling water landscapes.

The second floor is an oval square with curved steps on both sides surrounded by light-transmitting water spray balls that spray water to the middle water tray.

There is a huge water bowl in the center, from which a bead-curtain waterfall flows down into the water pan.

There is a statue of a river god on the left and right of the water bowl, holding a horn and leaning on the water bowl, guarding the waterscape and viewing gallery.

On both sides of the gentle slope are the "Love Gardens" at Chateau Verandi, with red flowers planted in the middle.

French Classical Garden French Le N?tre Garden adopts a geometric grid with clear master and slave and strict order.

The mansion is located at the highest point and plays a commanding role.

At the same time, flower beds, statues, spring pools, etc. are used as key decorations on the central axis that runs through the entire garden to form the visual center of the entire garden.

In terms of waterscapes, static waterscapes are mainly displayed to form a mirror-like waterscape effect.

In terms of planting, abundant broad-leaved trees and embroidered flower beds are used.

Embroidered flower beds composed of hundreds of meters of stone, grass and flowers are placed on both sides of the central axis, with plants as the background outside and a tree-lined path in the middle.

At both ends of the avenue are four smaller pools symbolizing "spring", "summer", "autumn" and "winter".

There is a golden and delicate statue in the center of each pool.

The western end of the axis extends into the water, extending the project into the distance.

There are two fine white marble sculptures on each side of the east end of the axis.

The central water feature is three bronze-headed wall springs.

British Natural Landscape Garden The British Natural Landscape Garden adopts a non-deterministic, asymmetrical tree planting method.

The exhibition garden integrates rockery, grassland, pavilion, flower border, rocks and other elements to harmonize with the surrounding water surface, forming a natural pastoral with British style.

The Spanish Islamic Garden is a rectangular palace, about 35 meters long and 20 meters wide. It is surrounded by a row of marble columns and a beautiful verandah. In the middle, there is a pavilion-style building that imitates the clean hands of the Western Order. The circular

The roof is decorated with filigree patterns.

The flowers on the ground are arranged according to Arabic pictures and texts, and the cross water channel in the middle brings vitality to the entire garden.

In the middle of the garden, there is a fountain surrounded by lions, supported by 12 lions.

In the past, 12 lions could keep time, and one lion would spray water every hour.

In the Xi'an World Expo Park, designers from nine countries including Denmark, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and China gathered in the "Master Garden" to present a visual feast of creative gardens to visitors from all over the world.

The "Master Garden" represents the trends and trends of modern landscape design. It is also considered the most creative garden in the Expo Park, so it is known as the "Thinking Garden".

The entire garden is spread out in a triangle shape. On the triangular mountain, trees and other plants are scattered in a dense but not chaotic manner. All the materials selected for the garden are natural.

Conifers are planted in the higher areas of the garden, while flowering shrubs and herbs are planted in the lower areas.