Cherry Blossom Japan Flower Garden

A cherry blossom is a flower of many trees of genus prunus the most well known species is the japanese cherry prunus serrulata which is commonly called sakura 桜 or 櫻.

Cherry blossom japan flower garden. It is the second time for me to visit to rikugien garden of tokyo during the blooming weeping cherry blossom. See more ideas about flower garden cherry blossom japan beautiful flowers. They seem to be most significant in japan where they symbolize a kind of lifestyle and amount to a religious event with popular celebrations and hope for the future. Here a wide variety of flowers such as dimorphotheca sinuata nemophila snapdragons daisies poppies and rodgersia podophylla blossom in the 52 000m2 rice field.

Over the next month the cherry blossom blooms will move northward through japan according to japan guide. The earliest you can see sakura cherry blossom would be in late january. There are many varieties of the flower that have been introduced into japan. The custom is said to have started during the nara period 710 794 when it was ume blossoms that people admired in the beginning.

But by the heian period 794 1185 sakura came to attract more attention and hanami was synonymous with sakura. They are widely distributed especially in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere including japan taiwan korea mainland china nepal india pakistan afghanistan iran myanmar thailand europe. Cherry blossom season in japanese culture cherry blossom trees are popular around the world. Cherry blossoms garden japan photography tokyo travel this gallery contains 13 photos.

Cherry blossoms also known as sakura in japan are the small delicate pink flowers produced by cherry blossom trees. The great allure of the flower is the short blooming period it has. Kamikaze pilots used this flower as a symbol of their missions. From then on in tanka and haiku flowers meant sakura.

The springtime bloom is a lavish spectacle but remarkably brief. A fallen cherry blossom flower also has emotional connections in the minds of japanese. After only two weeks they drop to the ground and wither falling like snow with the ebb and flow of the winds. It is popular amongst the buddhist belief of impermanence and the beauty of life before it ends.

The name of this flower garden comes from the fact that the flowers are planted in a a rice field tanbo in japanese before it is being used to grow rice. Hanami is the centuries old practice of picnicking under a blooming sakura or ume tree. Apr 10 2020 explore alice c s board flower garden on pinterest.