Other scholars disagree. They argue that there is no distinct "Botanical Garden culture," but that there is instead a single culture with a Yuanshan period and a Botanical Garden period denoting the different stages in its development.
另也有學者不同意，他們認為根本沒有植物園文化，只有圓山期和植物園期，那只是同一種文化的不同發展階段。