A Garden Within A garden
Landscape Middle East|July 2019

The Secret Oasis.

A Garden Within A garden

The 2019 Beijing Expo is a horticulture themed exhibition located 60 kilometers north of Beijing in the town of Yanqing. The Yanqing area is the traditional bread basket for Beijing and is famous for its flower and fruit festival s in Spring, and is conveniently located to the Great Wall and the famous Longqin Gorge.

The Beijing Expo Organisers are hosting over 110 countries who were required to follow the horticulture theme of ‘Live Green Live Better‘ and most importantly to be ready by April 29th April 2019 for the first of an expected 70 million visitors over a 6 month period.

UAE Government had not previously exhibited a horticulture theme at a world Expo, AECOM proposed a traditional Oasis as a representation of its agricultural history, there was immediate acceptance of the idea.

The Middle East AECOM Landscape studio had less than 4 months to complete the design with client endorsement, gain Expo Organizer approvals, source materials, achieve local Authority approvals and build the Exhibition Pavilion and the Garden in readiness for the April 28th opening.

With the assistance of our Beijing Studio and Birkdale Nurseries we not only met the schedule but have also enjoyed the praise of thousands of visitors.

Uae Horticulture history

Chinas long history of horticulture makes it ideal for a horticulture themed Expo and UAE proudly contributed by representing its own history of horticulture dating back to the Maghan period of 6000+ years ago and probably earlier. The Maghan were a culturally well-developed people growing cereal crops and vegetables and likely being the originators of the falaj system of irrigation.

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