Abstract: Though China has been called Mother of Gardens since nearly a hundred years ago, the Chinese ornamental plants resources and their contribution to the horticultural world has never been summarized. Through the hard work of China National Botanical Garden (North Garden) with more than seventy institutions by nearly 170 contributors both from home and abroad, ten volumes of China, Mother of the Gardens, in the Twenty First Century, with 5995 pages and more than 11,520,000 words, have been published in the past four years (2022—2025). The contents and procedure of ten volumes and the prospect of future volumes are introduced here, and we hope more colleagues could join us in writing the new chapter of a series of books entitled China, Mother of Gardens in the Twenty-First Century.

Key words: new book, China, Mother of Gardens

摘要： 中国“园林之母”已经提出近百年，然而中国观赏植物资源以及对世界园林界的贡献至今没有详细总结。经国家植物园（北园）等全国70多家单位海内外近170人共同努力，过去四年（2022-2025）顺利出版《中国，二十一世纪的园林之母》十卷本，总页码达5995，总字数达1152万。本文介绍十卷本的主要内容与编研进展，并对未来卷册作展望，期待更多的同仁一起谱写《中国，二十一世纪的园林之母》新篇章。

关键词: 新书, 中国, 园林之母