桂花Osmanthus fragrans作为主要造景植物广泛应用于明清时期的私家园林。东莞可园的可轩以桂花为主要元素营建，既展示独特的传统桂花文化，又显示园主人洁身自好的人格自信和高贵品格，以及对美好意愿和高品质生活期盼与追求。桂花的现代应用前景广阔，可以从古典园林中吸收精华，不断挖掘其文化内涵，丰富园林应用品种群及应用方式，发挥营造优美景观、改善生态环境、康养等多重价值；还可以华南国家植物园建设为契机，通过园林造景，营建具有科普价值和中国传统桂花文化内涵的专类或专题公园。

Osmanthus fragrans was widely used as a major landscape plant in private gardens during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Kexuan Hall of Keyuan Garden in Dongguan is built with O. fragrans as the main element, which not only displays the unique traditional culture of O. fragrans, but also shows the owner's self-confidence and noble character, as well as the hope and pursuit of goodwill and high quality of life. The modern application of O. fragrans has a broad prospect, can absorb essence from classical gardens, continuously explore the cultural connotation of O. fragrans, enrich the garden application species group and method, to realize the multiple values of creating beautiful landscapes, improving the ecological environment, recreation and health care, etc. It can also take the construction of the South China National Botanical Garden as an opportunity to build specialized or thematic parks with science popularization value and traditional Chinese culture of O. fragrans through gardening.

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