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”.

Leaves of Incense Cedar

Incense Cedar is found in Oregon and California and grows up to 30m (100 feet) height. As you can see on this picture, the leaves of Incense Cedar form scale-like appearance. This evergreen tree is used for manufacturing pencils and also preferred for side board for building housing. Here you can find more information for Incense Cedar.

Japanese Chestnut Tree

One more photo for Japanese Chestnut. Both of picture is not good at all—sorry. In near future I’ll take better one.

Tomato Flowers Photo

This photo is also for tomato flowers. Previous picture is not good so I took one more and the result is also not good. Sorry… I’m not professional photographer.

Soapwort Flowers Photo

Soapwort is a wild flower and known as a herbs. Some area they plant this flower in their garden and use it as soap as the name indicate. If your skin is delicate enough for regular soap, This Soapwort is for you. The soap from this plant is much tender than regular one.

Japanese Crepemyrtle Photo

As I mentioned in previous post, Crepe Myrtle trees are called “monkey slip tree (Saru Suberi)” in Japan. See now you can understand from the picture how slippery this tree is. (But actually I have never seen a monkey slip and fall down from this tree.)