VISITING GARDENS IN HOKKAIDO. 1/2

We visited gardens in Hokkaido. It was early spring even now in Hokkaido.

We first visited Rokkano Mori garden at Obihiro.

 六花の森です。（バターサンドで有名な六花亭の森です。）

A small stream with Ezono-Ryuukinka flowers both banks.

 

エゾノリュウキンカ（蝦夷の立金花）が両岸に咲く小川です。

 

 

Purimura flowers.

 

大桜草です。

 

Shirane-Aoi.

 

白根葵です。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

Trillium.

 

大花の延齢草です。北大の寮歌にも歌われています。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

Then we went to Tashirono Mori garden.

 

太四郎の森です。

 

A lane with primura and trillium.

 

大桜草と大花の延齢草の小道。

 

 

Trillium flowers grow in colonies.

 

大花の延齢草の群生です。

 

 

Ezono-Ryuukinka flowers grow in colonies.

 

蝦夷の立金花の群生です。

 

Then we went to Shichiku garden.

 

紫竹ガーデンです。

 

Shichiku garden.

 

 

 

A row of Japanese white birch trees.

 

白樺の並木です。

 

Male blossoms of the tree.

 

白樺の雄花です。

 

 

Yukimocji-Soh.

 

雪餅草（ユキモチソウ）です。

 

I want to write a continuation of Visiting Gardens in Hokkaido No.2 in two or three days.

 

 

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PEONIES AND WATER LILIES.

THis Jindai botanical garden is very big. There are a peony garden, a rosen garden and greenhouses.


                                                       Peonies were in full bloom.

                                                           シャクヤクの色々な園芸種が咲いていました。

 

 

 

 

Many roses were full bloom in a rose garden.

 

 

I wrote about roses last autumn. Please look as folloows.

 

A small talk about roses.

 

 

There are glass houses in this botanical garden. Many flowers were in full bloom.

 

 

Jade Vine.

 

ヒスイカズラです。

 

Many water lilies too.

 

水連も見事でした。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FLOWERING TREES IN A BOTANICAL GARDEN

We went to Jindai botanical garden in Tokyo. I uploaded only flowering trees in this post.

調布の神代植物公園に行きました。　今回は木の花をアップしました。

Japanese big leaf magnolia.

 

朴の木（ホオノキ）、朴葉味噌を思い出します。

 

Kalmia.

 

カリミアです。

 

 

Rhodendron.

 

石楠花（シヤクナゲ）です。

 

 

Baika-Utugi.

 

梅花空木（バイカウツギ）です。

 

 

Sarasa-Utugi.

 

更紗空木（サラサウツギ）です。

 

 

 

Sarunashi.

 

猿梨（サルナシ）です。

 

Red horse-chestnut.

 

紅花栃の木（ベニバナトチノキ）です。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

 

Chinaberry.

 

栴檀（センダン）です。栴檀は双葉より芳し。の栴檀は白檀の事です。

 

My wife sketched trees by using only a ball pointed pen.

 

 

My wife's drawing.

 

 

My wife's drawing.

 

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EARLY SPRING IN HOKKAIDO.

Spring has come. We wanted to see scenery in Hokkaido.  So we started to go to Hokkaido.

We got on a plane at Tokyo International Air port(Haneda).

 

 

Arrivng Hokkaido, we went to a field in a surburbs of Sapporo.

We could see that Ezo-Engosaku flowers grew in colonies.

 

 

 

Ezo-Engosaku,growing in colonies.

 

エゾエンゴサクの群生です。

 

 

Ezo-Engosaku.

 

エゾエンゴサクです。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

Then.On the way to Lake Toyako,we went to a entrance to Hyakunen-no-Mori.

 

 

 

Ezono-Ryukinka started to bloom along a small stream.

 

エゾノリュウキンカが小川に沿って咲き始めました。

 

 

Ezono-Ryukinka.

 

エゾノリュウキンカです。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

 

Mizu-Basyo flowers grow in colonies.

 

ミズバショウです。

 

Mizu-Basyo

 

ミズバショウです。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

 

 

We stayed a hotel beside Lake Toyako.

 

泊まったホテルです。

 

 

Next  day,we could see Lake Toyako from the hotel site.

 

洞爺湖です。

 

 

And, Mt.Yoteizan.

 

羊蹄山です。

 

Zooming up.

 

アップです。

 

 

We could see Lake Toyako from the room where we stayed.

 

部屋から洞爺湖が見えました。

 

We went to Hoppo wild flower garden at Asahikawa.

 

 

 

A white birch forest.

 

白樺の林です。

 

Zazen-Soh.

Zazen means that sitting in Zen meditation.

 

ザゼンソウです。

 

Zazen-Soh.

Does this flower look like a priest sitting in Zen meditation?

 

 

 

Hukuju-Soh.

 

福寿草です。

 

Then we went to Yosyou garden at Takinoue.

 

 

 

Erica flowers grow in colonies.

 

エリカです。

 

White Erica flowers by macro lens.

 

 

Tamazoki-Sakurasoh.

 

玉咲き桜草です。

 

Chiyonodokusa.

 

チヨノドクサです。

 

 

White Chiyonodokusa.

 

It was very cold in Hokkaido. Temparature was about 6~8°C.

It snowed in Sapporo,the capital of Hokkaido,in May after an interval of 21 years.

 

 

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