Taipei Aowanda Introduction
At Yangmingshan, those who love the beauty of maple leaves don’t need to travel far to Canada or Japan; the nearby "Taipei Aowanda" offers a stunning visual experience. Here, you can enjoy the maple leaves' beauty without having to wait for autumn or winter; from March to April, you can appreciate the lovely red maples all around. The garden features a variety of plants including pines, cherry blossoms, cypress, maples, and camellias, all cultivated from saplings, resulting in unique shapes, with black pines and maples being the most prominent and representative plants of Taipei Aowanda. General visitors are most impressed by the annual maple season—typically in autumn and winter, when a cold front is needed to see the maple leaves turn red. However, Taipei Aowanda not only has maple leaves in fall and winter; the best viewing time is from March to April, mainly because the maples at Taipei Aowanda are grafted with Japanese varieties. Due to the characteristics of these varieties, there is a period of over a month during which the new buds are red. As temperatures gradually rise and rainfall occurs, the chlorophyll changes, transitioning from red to green, and there are also many varieties with different colors. (Source: Taipei Aowanda Facebook)
