Category: Everyday Life

A visit to the flower garden

It was noisy downtown because of the Hakata Dontaku festival.
We don’t like to be in a crowd, and we had free tickets; so thanks to the person who gave us the tickets, we visited the Hakozaki Shrine Flower Garden this year, too.
Probably, for the Paeonia, a few days later might have been best. However, they had planted a lot of nemophila as ground cover. It’s not outstanding, but we like it. We feel envy: if we had a big sunny garden, we could do something like that. (This is an impossible scene for our small shady garden.)

It seems there are many sizes and kinds of Paeonia. We had the impression that Paeonia is much smaller than Paeonia suffruticosa, but some are big. We took some pictures but there aren’t any signs to tell us which is which, so we amateurs have no idea about their proper names. We just say ‘I like it! ’ or ‘This is so beautiful!’ and look around. Well, maybe that’s all right for the pretty flowers we were able to see, right?

– YS, 3 May 2007

3 May 2007