Lake at 45 Bole Lu Jiading District Shanghai
Looking South at 45 Bole Lu
I’m going to take you on a walk around a pond. It’s quite a big pond by UK standards, in fact we would call it a lake and the surface is covered in water lilies which will make it look spectacular in the summer when the water lilies are in flower. But that is not the reason we got on the metro on Sunday morning and travelled all the way up to the north end of line 11 to Jiading North, a journey that took us about 2 and 3/4 hours door to door. The pond didn’t look much, but at this time of year during the last two weeks in April it is a very special place indeed and certainly worth the journey we made.
Imagine a garden that concentrates on just one plant, (with a few others to compliment the others) but has 28 different varieties planted in their hundreds in two rows either side of a path that meanders around the lake. The plants are climbers and are trained over a pergola structure a bit like the laburnum tunnel at Bodnant. Only this tunnel is about half a kilometre long and the flowers that hang down are highly perfumed when smelled en masse, and are a mixture of purple, white and pink flowers……..
Welcome to the Jiading Wisteria Garden:
There – half a kilometre of fragrant pink, white but mainly purple racemes. Isn’t it wonderful (and it was free as well)?
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