This is the line where evergreen meets deciduous. The green conifers and the red and yellow maples display their delineation when fall comes round on this hillside in central Japan.
Category Archives: Plants/Trees
Bonsai
This miniature tree doesn’t grow like this. It has been carefully tended and cut for many years.
The art of bonsai is a Japanese specialty, and this is the Japanese maple in full leaf.
Giant Redwood / Sequoia Trees
There are tall trees, there are taller trees and there are the tallest trees, and these are the Giant Redwood trees of California, also known as sequoia trees. Some are over 100m in height.
Blue flowers
Even though blue roses are very rare, blue flowers are not so unusual, and these tropical flowers can be found at Kew Gardens in London.
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Buckwheat
Buckwheat can be used to make to make soba noodles in Japanese cuisine. There a very attractive white flowers and these are they.
And below you can get a closer view.
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Sunflower
This is not the famous, and tremendously expensive, painting by van Gogh, known as the Sunflowers. This is the real thing, which is much much cheaper.
Different daffodils
Daffodils
Some people may think that a daffodil is a daffodil, but there are an incredible number of different varieties.
Corpse flower
It smells so bad
This is one of the rarest flowers in the world. This one in Tokyo blooms about once every 20 years ,and the flower is about 1.5m tall.
It is known as the corpse flower because it smells like dead flesh.
Spring maple
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The season for viewing maple trees is usually the autumn, but this maple tree is full of beautiful red leaves in April.
Pink rose
This is not artificial!
Almost perfect isn’t it?
This is from a rose garden in Hakone, Kanagawa prefecture. It was a little late in the summer, so there were not so many roses, but this one still looked so good.
Sitting on a leaf
Looks quite comfortable
Can a human sit on a leaf?
As you can see the answer is yes.
It looks a little like a water-bed, but it is a water-lily.
Okra
Also known as ladies' fingers
Okra is well-known as a vegetable, and its flowers are very attractive too.
Casablanca
A flower beginning with 'C'
When asked to name a flower beginning with ‘C’ one of my students could have said ‘carnation’ or ‘crocus’ or even ‘camomile’, but instead he chose to answer ‘casablanca’
I know Casablanca is one of the main cities of Morocco, and I know it is a Spanish word meaning ‘white house’ (or house white), but I never knew it was a flower.
The student then proceeded to show me a picture of this flower on his mobile phone, and what a beautiful flower it is too.
