The Role of Chinese Plants in Hungarian Landscape Architecture

Gerzson, László (2012) The Role of Chinese Plants in Hungarian Landscape Architecture. In: China - EU Cooperation for a Sustainable Economy. Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, pp. 165-175. . ISBN 978-963-503-497-0

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Abstract

Most outdoor plants in Hungarian horticulture are exotas mainly from Middle and East Asia and North America. The flora of China is diversified and has many species because the last glacial period did not reach China. The richness of the Chinese flora was known for Europeans by the missionaries and medics first in 19th cectury. Later some bigger nurseries sent expeditions in China to collect new plants. Nowadays the Hungarian landscape architecture is impossible without Chinese plants.

Item Type:

Book Section

Uncontrolled Keywords:

China, Landscape architecture, Glacial period, Discovery

Divisions:

Faculty of Landscape Architecture > Department of Garden and Open Space Design

Subjects:

Landscape planning, landscape protection, landscape design

Projects:

TÁMOP

ID Code:

1556