First up thanks to those who commented on my last post. I guess I'll continue blogging for as long as I feel like it and then stop. Basically the same life rule I follow for everything else, especially chocolate.
Yesterday I had an outing in the rain to Kyu-Furukawa garden. There is an english-ish house and a formal english garden, then below that is the traditional japanese section. This was Walk 7 in the Flower Lover's Guide to Tokyo and the book lives up to expectations. You start at one station and end at another so you get to see all the bits in between as well as the garden. Traditional shopping streets...
A Temple (Muryo-ji) - I adore those trees with their balls of leaves on the ends of the branches. No idea what they are called.
A pink police hut.
These are not usually pink but sakura (cherry blossom) seemed to be quite a theme throughout this part of town. For instance...
Plus the buses all had sakura designs on them.
Getting to the garden itself, I was really surprised. I had hoped for Azaelias and I got....roses!
Plus a lot of people. I suspect a coach party of retired japanese had just arrived but there were also one or two groups of ladies-who-lunch. Otherwise I suspect I was the youngest there. The photo above was just the one bed along the side of the house. There were plenty more.
When the rain restarted there were the colourful umbrellas to contrast with the flowers.
I took photos of soooo many roses. I made a mosaic but the individual photos with the names of the roses are all on Flickr.
This is all that was left of the Azaelias - a week earlier and they must have looked amazing.
The japanese part of the garden was just as beautiful.
There was a lovely viewing platform where you could look over most of both gardens and I spent a while sitting there and mulling over life in general. It was a very pleasant place to be!
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