White peonies?
Spring has finally arived with a steep rise temperature and flowers blooming everywhere although the main cherry trees are still late and will bloom only for the Shizuoka Festival taking place next week (report in the offing!)!
I couldn’t help taking pictures on my way to work yhis mornig.
My office is only a 10-miute bicycle ride away and I took these pics along the way to show you the simple pleasures of everyday life in Japan!
I don’t know the names of many of these flowers and I hope my friends help me there!
I will credit them of course!
All pices are shown in the order on my trip to work!
I know the French word for these but not the English one!
These small white flower bushes are very popular in Japan!
Late blooming Japanese plum tree.
Red camelias in front of a vetenerary hospital.
Rape flowers.
Not flowers, but kumquats!
Cherry blossoms.
Large cherry blossom variety.
Winter oranges!
More white peonies?
Cherry blossoms at a kindergarten!
Very popular again but I don’t know their name…
Cherry blossoms.
White peonies again?
Peeking over the hedge…
I don’t know their name but their yellow color suit the nearby police-box well!
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Have a look at Spring flowers in Germany – we have Easter in snow!
Find some pics here http://einfachbento.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/osterspaziergang/ if you like.
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Thank you so much! I’m going there right away!
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Just an addendum to my first comment on blossoms: The big white tulip-like (a tree/1st picture) isn’t peonie – it is magnolia (same name in French/English/German). A popular name here in Germany is Tulip Tree. The pure white one might be Kobushi magnolia or star magnolia that is the earliest booming. Peonie means Pivoine (F) that is a shrub and blooming with big fat blossoms later at Whitsuntide. It’s very traditional and typical in farmers gardens.
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I knew I did well to ask for help! LOL
Thank you so much!
A lady knows better!
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We have to wait for most of the blossoms yet but some of the brave start blooming. This seems to be the same species as you show to us on the last picture: forsythia (same name French/English/German).
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Thank you so much for the information!
Very much appreciated!
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Beautiful!
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Thank you so much!
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You are very welcome!
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Robert, lets exchange places ! beautiful sights and I dont mind if the journey to work takes an hour instead of 10 minutes 🙂 Spring is the most welcome season of the year and I wish we have spring all the year round 🙂
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I couldn’t agree more!LOL
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