What flowers are suitable for growing in Suzhou? What are the city flowers and trees?

1. Climate characteristics of Suzhou

Suzhou has a subtropical monsoon marine climate with distinct four seasons, mild weather all year round, abundant rainfall, and little snow in winter. Therefore, Suzhou is suitable for planting most plants. In addition, because the air humidity in Suzhou is relatively high, some moisture-loving plants can grow very vigorously in Suzhou, such as arrowroot, maidenhair fern, staghorn fern, monstera, etc.

2. What flowers are suitable for growing in Suzhou?

Generally speaking, ground-planted plants are greatly affected by the regional environment. According to the climatic conditions in Suzhou, it is more suitable to plant osmanthus, camellia, magnolia, azalea, June snow, Hypericum, gardenia, bottle orchid, Michelia, peony, rose, peony, crabapple, crape myrtle, hibiscus, plum blossom, peach blossom, lilac, bauhinia, winter jasmine, hydrangea, forsythia, deutzia, viburnum, rudbeckia, weeping crabapple, pearl bush, hibiscus, wintersweet, gerbera, pomegranate, trametia, wisteria, firecracker vine, trumpet creeper, daylily, hosta, amaryllis, saxifrage, dendrobium, lotus, water lily, arrowhead, etc.

3. What are Suzhou's city flowers and trees?

The city flower of Suzhou is osmanthus, and the city tree is camphor. Because osmanthus has a very long history of cultivation in Suzhou, every household in the local villages in Suzhou plants osmanthus trees at their doorsteps. Local people also call osmanthus "osmanthus flower", giving it a unique meaning and emotion. The camphor tree is evergreen all year round, with leaves not falling in winter and only replacing them with new leaves in spring and summer. As the most important street tree in Suzhou, the camphor tree has been designated as the city tree of Suzhou.