Attraction of "Monet's Garden".

Skyrim Flower Field attraction

■Labor Daily reporter Hu Yurong Ma Yahui

Photograph Yan Xiaoyi

　　春日的上海共青森林公園，如同一幅流動的印象派畫作。第二十四屆都市森林百花展自3月底啟幕以來，以“賞春日百花，享美好生活”為主題，吸引無數市民遊客徜徉花海。在剛過去的清明小長假，公園三天客流近20萬人次，達到公園開園以來同期的最高紀錄。

Recently, the "Staff Star Lounge" column of the Labor Daily conducted a panoramic live broadcast here, embraced the "Monet Garden" affectionately, and took a deep breath in the natural reproduction of Monet's famous paintings, trying to unlock the ecological aesthetic code of the park in recent years.

Central City

The only national forest park

Gongqing Forest Park is the only national forest park located in the central urban area of Shanghai. The park covers an area of 239 acres and the forest area is 0 acres. Among them, the north park "Gongqing Forest Park" covers an area of 0 acres, and the south park "Wanzhu Park" covers an area of 0 acres.

"Every inch of land here is condensed with the ingenuity of generations of gardeners." Caressing the mottled bark of the camphor tree, Shu Wenting, assistant engineer of Shanghai Gongqing Forest Park, introduced.

The location of the park was originally the tidal flat of the Huangpu River, and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government dredged the river in 1997 years, took mud and reclaimed it, and turned it into a nursery; In 0 years, a youth experimental orchard was established in the nursery, named "Gongqing Nursery"; In 0/0, the park was officially opened to the public. In 0 years, the south block of Gongqing Nursery was built into "Ten Thousand Bamboo Gardens" and opened one after another in 0 years.

　　目前，園內有30多萬株參天大樹，配以丘陵、草地、湖泊、溪流、密林、竹叢，構成一個自然幽深、富有野趣的生態空間，並形成了“盈湖泛舟” “秋林愛晚”等主要景區；打造了公園四季分明的景觀效果，形成環湖特色植物景觀、中心草坪景觀、濕地林景觀、觀鳥區景觀、桃花林景觀、海棠林景觀、足球場景觀、萬竹園景觀等十大景觀。公園具有豐富的動植物資源，觀測記錄到鳥類120種，逐步形成了以城市森林景觀為特色的都市綠肺。

　　“把最好的資源讓人民共用。”舒文婷表示，2021年7月起，公園實施免費開放，年接待遊客量近500萬人次。

In nature

Reproduction of Monet's paintings

On the riverbank on the east side of Xiangzhang Square, a 250-square-meter flower landscape is interpreting the symphony of nature and art. This attraction, known as "Monet's Garden" by the public, has attracted a large number of tourists to take photos in the spring urban forest flower exhibition and the autumn Shanghai chrysanthemum exhibition held in the park in recent years. This year, it was unveiled with a more sophisticated eco-design.

The new version of "Monet's Garden" continues to take the route of Internet celebrity freshness, using the tenaches and roots of the fallen trees in the park after the typhoon last year as materials, combined with various flowers in spring, to embellish and arrange, so that these flowers seem to bloom from the vitality of the trees, further enriching the color and layering of "Monet's Garden". The oil painting forest and fragrant grass make visitors feel as if they are in a beautiful fairyland on earth.

During the live broadcast, in order to find the best angle for the audience to appreciate the beauty of "Monet's Garden", the beautiful reporter and anchor waited in line for a while.

"From the time it opens in the morning to the time it closes in the evening, almost all of this attraction has visitors." Shu Wenting said that in the flower realm of "Monet's Garden", there is a lot of ingenuity behind the seemingly random decoration of various flowers. The garden is planted with iris and rhizome plants, such as flowers and irises, with brightly colored one- and two-year-old grass flowers, such as foxglove, large-flowered delphinium, and philodendron. In terms of color, complementary colors and contrasting colors are used to coordinate and match, and finally form a harmonious texture and colorful artistic conception like an oil painting.

In the Great Lawn of Swan Pond, the wooden windmills with a height of 8 meters are particularly eye-catching. This attraction, titled "Sky Flower Field", is derived from Monet's famous work "Tulip Fields in the Netherlands". The garden designer ingeniously reproduces the farmhouse, tulips and other elements in the original painting in a three-dimensional real-life scene, and truly restores the core element in the original painting - the wooden windmill. At the same time, combined with the beautiful canopy line and skyline of the park exhibition site, the combination of virtual and real techniques makes the whole painting as if it has come to life.

　　“此處景點的打造也是一波三折。首先造型的設計和製作需要時間，但3月份上海不時下雨，經常處於無法施工的狀態。”上海共青森林公園助理經濟師童幸欣告訴記者，為了給遊客更好的遊覽體驗，圍繞風車四面立體佈置工藝花卉，“如此一來，遊客不論站在哪個位置觀看，都會感受到《荷蘭的鬱金香田》畫作的意境。”而這樣的設計給布展帶來不少挑戰，“你看到裝置上插滿的花卉嗎？那是一朵一朵插上去的，十多個女工足足花了三天時間。”

Similarly, the creation of Swan Wharf attractions is not easy. The attraction is based on five of Monet's sailing-themed paintings. Combined with the characteristics of the natural waterfront landscape of the park's "Swan Pond", the wharf, sailboats, and buildings in Monet's original paintings are restored in three dimensions, depicting a busy scene of a vibrant spring port. At the same time, the core element of the painting, the sailboat, is recreated according to the original painting and combined with the floral arrangement, so that the overall picture is more layered and artistic. "In order to make the attraction more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the swan pond has been thoroughly cleaned before to make the water quality clearer and more pleasant."

A dialogue between nature and art

Full of life

Moving to Xiangzhang Square, the "Life Painting Tree Cultural and Creative Collection" is also the innovative highlight of this exhibition. The organizer takes the 11 arbor trees in the camphor square as the natural point and the tree as the axis to create a circular wooden booth around the tree. At the same time, with 0 Monet paintings as the design inspiration, according to the composition and color matching of the flowers in the paintings, each booth is artistically empowered, so that it echoes the color system of the corresponding paintings, and strives to make the colors and themes of each booth different and harmonious.

"Life Painting Tree Cultural and Creative Collection" provides more than 20 categories of products such as flower-themed jewelry, plant micro-landscape, and fresh-cut flowers. When visitors come to the market, they seem to have entered a utopia constructed by color, reflecting the new concept of "beauty is content, content is beauty".

"Monet Town Life Market" breaks through the traditional market form and creates 12 colorful and unique French-style small bungalows, each of which has fruit tea, hamburgers, sausages and other Western food, light meals, European desserts and other different special delicacies, tourists can enjoy the "eye blessing" at the same time, but also enjoy the "mouth blessing". The market revolves around the core elements of "Monet", and the façade of the bungalows displays a number of Monet's replicas, making visitors feel like they are in a European town full of literary and artistic temperament.

From the three-dimensional reproduction of Monet's famous paintings to the deep integration of ecology and art, this is the wisdom and innovation of urban gardeners. In the southern half of the lawn of the west gate of the park, the boundary line is closed to tourists, which is the time for the gardeners to follow the laws of nature and give the lawn to recuperate.

Shu Wenting said that since the park was opened for free, the number of tourists has surged, and the density of tent construction has been increasing, which has had a certain impact on the green landscape of the park, especially the damage to the lawn landscape of the park is more serious. In 2024 and 0 years, the park implemented rotational rest on part of the lawn with good results. This year, the park will continue to carry out the lawn rotation system, so that the lawn can be restored and grown in batches to ensure the park's good ecological environment and landscape. "During the rotation period, maintenance measures such as fertilization, drilling, and irrigation will be strengthened, and sporadic lawns with bald areata or serious damage will be replaced to achieve lawn restoration as soon as possible."

Towards the end of the live broadcast, the warm sunlight gilded the "Monet Garden" with gold edges, and the light and shadow under the camphor tree were dappled, as if it was a signature of nature across time and space. Here, every petal is a natural brushstroke, every birdsong is an ecological chord, and the ingenuity of the gardener makes this dialogue between nature and art full of fresh vitality.