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Chase flowers(lifestyle.com)Updated: 2007-03-21 09:40 Spring is time of flowers. Last year's warm winter leads to the early blossom of flowers. Blooming flowers never wait, they blossom and then wither. To catch the transient beauty, you need a timetable. The following is a list of nice places appreciating blooming flowers. Let's enjoy spring. Wuyuan
Mid-March is the best time to appreciate flowers in Wuyuan. The best-known flowers in Wuyuan are rape plant flowers. They are so common that you may not notice them when you pass by. But in Wuyuan, you'll see acres of them, the yellow wave will refresh you. Besides, there are there are pear flowers, peach flowers, Michelia floribunda (Shilixiang) and azaleas. Three Gorges Tourists are welcome by seas of flowers if they visit Three Gorges in March and April. The whole area is awakened by dazzling rape plant flowers and peach flowers. Rape plant flowers blossom in mid-March, then azaleas blossom in late March, and it's the orange blossoms in Yichang at the beginning of April. Taohuacun (peach flowers village), as the name shows, is a good place to appreciate peach flowers. It is located near Yichang city, at the entrance of Xiling Gorge, the most east part of Three Gorges. Bailizhou, an island located at the heart of Yangtze River, boasts five million pear trees. Nyingchi
In Nyingchi, peach flowers bloom at the late March or early April. Different from the delicate peach flowers in east China, Nyingchi's wild peach flowers have more vivid color at the base of distant snow mountains. There is another place to enjoy peach flowers five kilometres away Nyingchi county, Ga La Peach Flowers Village. Visitors to Nyingchi may see blooming azaleas in June. Lijiang Located in Yunnan Province, Southwest China, Lijiang offers blooming azaleas every spring. From early May, azaleas bloom gradually on mountains. Azales at lower part of mountains bloom early while those at higher part later. In June, the flowery mountains turn up. Laojunshan Mountain is a good place in Lijiang to enjoy blooming azaleas. |
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