Meet Garden of the West: Dream Weavers of Time and Space at the 2024 World Garden Congress

On April 28th, the World Garden Congress Wuhan Chapter was grandly opened. 39 new gardens of different types and styles were designed and built at the Wuhan Garden Expo venue, and 45 domestic and foreign enterprises were recruited to participate in the Merchant Flower Market. The General Assembly merchant flower market unit (specially installed booth area) set up a total of comprehensive display awards (1), space design awards (2), creative exhibits awards (5), excellence awards (7). Wuhan WEME Ecological Landscape Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of WEME Landscape, took the “Design and Construction Integration” of Zhongshan Park Garden - Meet West Garden 1910, which stood out from many other gardens and won the highest award of the conference. --Comprehensive Display Award.

Fantasy Set Sail: A Green Invitation to Travel Through Time and Space

In the Wuhan branch of the 2024 World Garden Congress, a visual feast called “Meet Western Garden” is quietly blooming in the B12 booth of the specially-decorated booth area of the Merchant Flower Market. This is not only a display area, it is a bridge connecting the past and the future, a stage for science and technology to dance with nature, and a vivid interpretation of Wuhan's urban green memory and the spirit of modern innovation. With the theme of “Wetland Flower City with Hundreds of Flowers and Colors”, “Meet the West Garden” has interpreted a green epic spanning over a hundred years in the limited space of 16mX6m.

Weaving Time: The Magical Reality of Pixelated Art

Led by the creative concept, “Meet West Park” creatively uses the design language of “pixelation” to reconstruct and reorganize the century-old changes of Zhongshan Park in the form of digital art. Each pixel is a footnote of history, and each box carries the weight of culture. This unique design technique allows tradition and modernity to collide in the microcosm, producing an unexpected visual shock and deep cultural resonance. When night falls, the interaction between light and shadow and pixels makes the whole exhibition area both mysterious and fascinating, as if you are in the garden of the future world, and you can meet history unexpectedly at a certain corner.

Cultural Deep Dive: Emotional Resonance under Five Dimensional Exploration

“Meet the West Garden” explores the historical and cultural heritage of the West Garden and builds a multi-layered and multi-dimensional cultural exhibition space through the five dimensions of “History, Humanities, Vitality, Ecology and Spirituality”. From the private backyard of the West Garden to the evolution of the public park, to the spiritual symbols of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling, every detail is carefully laid out to touch the heartstrings of every visitor and awaken a deep emotional resonance for the city.

Featured Highlight: Shuttling Between Memories and Dreams

- The Stone of the Western Garden and the Gate of Nakayama: The stone and pixelated gate of the entrance, like the gatekeepers of history and the future, invite you to step into this journey through time and space.

- Ru Bing's Door and Historical Light: Behind the minimalist Moon Door are old photographs interlaced with light and shadow, taking you on a stroll to the edge of history and reality.

- Symphony of Interaction and Ecology: The skillful combination of flower interactive devices and ecological fish tanks allows visitors to touch the rhythm of life with their own hands and feel the perfect fusion of technology and nature.

- Laughter in Memory: The miniature Ferris wheel and roller coaster are not only models, but also memories shared by several generations, awakening happy times about the park.

Flower Language: A Poetic Presentation of the Beauty of Nature

In the selection of plant varieties, “Meet Western Garden” is even more carefully selected, the noble moonflower columns, clusters of pink-flowered embroidered chrysanthemums, the freshness of the flower-leafed cycads, and the toughness of the upright holly, the warmth of the “Red Fox” Brahmana contrast with each other, and together they weave a colorful ecological picture scroll. colorful ecological scroll. Each flower and plant tells its own story, and together they interpret the ecological music of Zhongshan Park's changing seasons.

“Meet Western Garden” is not only an exhibition, but also a touching of the heart, a cultural baptism, and a profound dialog about the city's memory and future dreams. At the 2024 World Garden Congress, let's go into this fantastic green world together, feel the unique flavor and vitality of Wuhan, experience those stories that have been carefully carved by time, and “Meet the Western Garden” together to renew the green legend of the next hundred years.

[Introduction to the 2024 World Garden Congress]

The 2024 World Garden Congress kicked off in Wuhan, China, in the season of spring. This globally-anticipated horticultural event, which kicked off on April 28 and lasted until May 5, with the theme of “Wetland City of Flowers, Hundreds of Flowers Overflowing with Colors,” brought domestic and foreign guests a double feast of floral art and natural ecology. Wuhan, a city where history and modernity are intertwined, with its unique wetland landscape and deep cultural heritage, became the ideal place for the conference.

The conference was located in Wuhan Garden Expo Park and Shahu Park. The two parks were meticulously arranged to not only display over 300,000 pots of seasonal flowers, but also featured areas such as corporate exhibition gardens, merchant flower markets and specialty theme gardens, with a total area of tens of thousands of square meters. In the exhibition area, the special flowers from international exhibitors such as Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, France and other international exhibitors competed with each other, and the exquisite horticultural works of well-known domestic enterprises, showing the international vision and cutting-edge trends of the flower and horticulture industry.

Especially worth mentioning is that the conference deeply integrated the concept of “flowers + technology”, using modern technological means, such as intelligent greenhouses, augmented reality (AR) interactive experience, etc., so that visitors in the immersive experience to feel the beauty of flowers, explore the harmonious symbiosis of nature and science and technology. In addition, creative exhibitions such as “Meet the West Garden”, which skillfully combined the century-old history of Wuhan Zhongshan Park with modern design, told the story of the West Garden's transformation from a private garden to a modern city park through the pixelated design language and the art of light and shadow, which made people linger.

During the event, more than 2,000 exciting horticultural displays, academic forums, creative workshops and cultural exchanges were held, which not only attracted the active participation of horticultural professionals, but also greatly stimulated the public's interest in and love of flowers and horticulture.The 2024 World Garden Congress is not only a visual feast, but also a dissemination of cultural and ecological concepts, which has successfully demonstrated the ecological and civilization construction achievements of Wuhan and China, and promoted the ecological and civilization construction of Wuhan and China. The 2024 World Garden Congress is not only a visual feast, but also a dissemination of cultural and ecological concepts, successfully demonstrating Wuhan's and even China's achievements in ecological and civilization construction, promoting global exchanges and cooperation in the field of flower and horticulture, and offering the world a symphonic movement of green and beauty.