Flowers of Spike Winter Hazel

Spike Winter Hazel is a deciduous shrub and has yellow cluster flowers (which is fragrant) in early spring precedent of leaves as you can see on the picture. This shrub grows about 2.4m (8 feet) height and 3m (10 feet) width in full sun or partial shade area.

Japanese Flowering Crabapple

Japanese Flowering Crabapple has showy red buds and pink to white flowers in spring season and has yellow-red color edible fruits in late summer or in autumn. This tree grows 7.5m (25 feet) height and width and form round shape in full sun area. Japanese Flowering Crabapple is used for many ways such as bonsai, pot plant, landscaping plant etc.

Flower of Lily Magnolia

This photo is a flower of Lily Magnolia. You can see flower bud picture in the previous post. This plant prefers to grow in full sun and well drain soil area and forms round shape. It is beautiful when this tree has flowers at the tops of all its branches.

Flower Bud of Lily Magnolia

Original plant of Lily Magnolia is native to China and cultivated in several areas include Japan. And this Japanese cultivated one is popular in USA. This magnolia is smaller than other magnolias and grows about 3.6 m (12 feet) height and width. Lily Magnolia is deciduous tree and has pink-red showy flowers in early spring precedent leaves.

Yellow Flowers of Forsythia

Here is another picture of Forsythia flowers. The popular usages of this plant are as screening and border plant and enjoying it’s spring bloom.

Please see previous post for Forsythia, too.

Flowers of Forsythia

Forsythia is a fast growing deciduous shrub and very popular in USA even though Forsythia is native to East Asia. This shrub has bright yellow flowers (as you can see in the picture) in early spring precedent leaves and this plant is loved many people. Forsythia (intermedia) grows about 3.6m (12 feet) height and width and it is easy for taking care of it in full or partial shade area.

Philox Subulata Emerald Pink

Philox Subulata Emerald Pink is an evergreen perennial plant and good for ground cover. The flowers of Philox Subulata Emerald Pink are long lasting pink beautiful small ones as you see in the picture (sorry for blur image). This plant is easy maintenance plant and has good tolerance ability for deer, drought, heat and seashore.

White Japanese Flowering Cherry

In Japan we have many cultivated Japanese Flowering Cherries (may be more than 200 kinds) and there are many famous places for watching cherry blossom in all over the Japan. And when we have cherry blossom in spring, we enjoy parties under the cherry blossom. We call this party as “Hana-Mi (花見)- meaning is flower watching”.

Japanese Flowering Cherry

Japanese Flowering Cherry is Japanese National flower and every Japanese likes this flower. Many ancient Japanese people included this flower in their “Tanka(短歌) or Waka(和歌)” (a Japanese style poem). We call is tree as “Sakura (桜)” and often used as names for girls. This tree grows about 22.5m (75 feet) height and 15m (50 feet width) in full sun area and has flowers in spring before leaves come out.

Flowers of Giant Redbud

Giant Redbud is a deciduous shrub (or tree) and has flowers (as you can see on the picture) in early spring before leaves come out so the whole plant colored beautifully in dark pink. This plant is good drought tolerance. Giant Redbud grows about 7.5m (25 feet) height in full sun area.