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A pink peony labelled Paeonia lactiflora Everywhere Red at Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Paeonia lactiflora “Everywhere Red” at Shanghai Botanical Garden, in an archival photograph. This shows a plant in the garden’s collection, not a confirmed 2026 flower-show display. 阿橋 HQ / Wikimedia Commons; resized proportionally and converted to WebP. Image source · CC BY-SA 2.0

Forty hectares in the botanical garden

Shanghai Botanical Garden’s professional exhibition covers 40 hectares, divided into four principal zones. The announced programme includes 41 floral attractions and more than 400 plant varieties. Eighteen new plant varieties, selected from submissions by 28 organisations in China and abroad, will make their debut across the wider show.

A wooded pond bordered by rocks and dense planting at Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Shanghai Botanical Garden in August 2015. An archival garden landscape, not a photograph of the 2026 show’s installations. Esin Üstün from Istanbul, Turkey / Wikimedia Commons; resized proportionally and converted to WebP. Image source · CC BY 2.0

Gardens among shops and streets

Huangpu’s programme will bring more than 40 themed gardens and over 60 window displays into the district. The citywide format also includes 10 satellite venues, among them Fuxing Island, Chenshan Botanical Garden, Binjiang Forest Park and Gongqing Forest Park. Commercial areas, parks and other green spaces across all 16 districts participate.

The central displays make flowers part of a day already containing lunch, shopping or a walk. The botanical garden offers a longer visit focused on the plants themselves. These are different scales of experience, and the show is broad enough to accommodate both. More than 100 activities link flowers with culture, tourism, commerce and sport, while 34 commercial districts will carry related programmes.

Dates and addresses

The main festival runs 18 April–10 May 2026. Shanghai Botanical Garden (上海植物园) is at 1111 Longwu Road, Xuhui (徐汇区龙吴路1111号). Huangpu’s main-venue displays occupy several central locations; the official programme gives the individual gardens and routes.

Admission arrangements differ between parks, specialist displays and street installations. The citywide festival dates do not make every participating garden free or give each venue identical opening hours.