Dalian: Ziyunhuaxi Lavender Farm

Provence, a romantic city renowned for beautiful lavender which I have been admired for a long time. Every year, a great number of visitors go to Provence only to have a witness of the vast and magnificent purple sea of lavender. But now, at the foot of Xiaohei mount, Jinzhou New District, Dalian, the second largest city in China’s northeast Liaoning Province, a lavender farm with about a thousand mu(nearly 666,600 square meters)was built up. Chinese visitors can see lavender in china’s mainland without going abroad.

I was attracted by the purple sea of lavender when I watched a Chinese TV series which is called A Dream of Link. Provence seems to be the town of lavender, remote and romantic. I had planed to go there when I attended a Beijing Xian tour, but because of time problem, I gave it up.
In 2011, the owner tried out 20 mu lavender at the foot of Xiaohei Mount in Jinzhou New District and it turned to be a success. Lavender is adaptive to the local climate, so the area was expanded to 600 mu. In April every year, lavender is planted and its flower phase will last from July to the end of October.

Lavender is widely grown in Provence of France, Hokkaido in Japan, Singapore and Canada etc. There are also many lavender farm in China, the thousands-mu farm are only two, one is in Yili, Xinjiang Province and the other is Ziyunhuaxi lavender farm in Dalian city. If you travel in Xian, a newly open lavender is recommended, but it is far from Xian downtown.