Abstract:Temple gardens have profound historical background and rich cultural connotations, and the plants in the gardens are the embodiment of their unique connotations. This paper takes the temple gardens in Guilin, the center of Buddhism in Lingnan in the Tang Dynasty, as an example, to study the species characteristics and configuration of the plant landscape. The results show that there are 75 species of garden plants in 11 temple gardens, belonging to 52 families and 67 genera, among which the plants belonging to Ficus of Moraceae and the plants belonging to Asparagaceae are the main components. And some garden plants (such as Osmanthus fragrans, Cinnamomum camphora, etc.) not only contain Buddhist connotations, but also reflect the culture of the Zhuang nationality. In general, the plant landscape construction of temple gardens in Guilin not only embodies the unique landscape characteristics, but also contains the cultural deposits of the Zhuang nationality.