🍑🌸BEWILDERING BLOSSOMS🌰🍊
Spring's great conundrum...which blossom is which?🤔
There comes a period in the year when species of ume, quince, peach, cherry and almond trees can all be seen in bloom🔍😵💫
#blossom #Kyoto #Japan #京都 #cherryblossoms #梅 #桜 #桃 #木瓜 #アーモンド
Camellia Tea Ceremony
in reply to Camellia Tea Ceremony • • •🔍THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR👀
🎎 Ume (梅の花)-
Flowers grow directly from the branch and have no stem.
are the sparrows too
having a private party?
plum blossoms
雀らも身祝するか梅の花
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1804.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.
#Kyoto #plumblossoms #京都 #梅 #Japan
Camellia Tea Ceremony
in reply to Camellia Tea Ceremony • • •🍑Momo (桃の花)-
Flowers bloom in pairs from short stems (petals are always pink, and diamond in shape).
my mean peach tree
nice and chubby
with blossoms
苦桃の花のほちゃほちゃ咲にけり
-Kobayashi Issa, 1809.
Trans. David Lanoue.
#Kyoto #peach #peachblossoms #京都 #桃 #Japan
Camellia Tea Ceremony
in reply to Camellia Tea Ceremony • • •🌸Sakura (桜)-
Individual flowers grow from longer stems, generally in clusters. The oval petals typically have an indent at the tip.
cherry blossoms fall-
come out and play
devil in me!
散る桜心の鬼も出て遊べ
-Kobayashi Issa.
Trans. David Lanoue.
#Kyoto #cherryblossoms #sakura #京都 #桜 #Japan
Camellia Tea Ceremony
in reply to Camellia Tea Ceremony • • •🌰Almond (アーモンド)-
The flowers are very similar to sakura, but petals darken towards centre (they have a jasmine like aroma).
Only the leaves are gently stirred
By the soft breathing of the gale,
And in the almond-scented vale
The lonely nightingale is heard.
-Oscar Wilde.
#almond #アーモンド #blossoms