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posted: March 31st, 2014 |
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This page begins and ends with March 8th and a trip to Jindai Botanical Garden to check on the progress of spring flowers. As you can see by glancing down - we were successful in finding spring flowers. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| Begin March 8th |
As the header says, on March 8th we went to Jindai Botanical Garden. We went on our bicycles and we wanted to see if the Plum Blossoms had finally become beautiful. Warmer weather has been so amazingly slow to come this year that the plum blossoms have been delayed by at least a couple of weeks. The first photo in this row is actually a type of very early cherry - the Kan Zakura. The 2nd shot shows the large patch of Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana) and the 3rd shot is another of the Kan Zakura.
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Here are 2 more shots of the Kan-Zakura. You should note that Kazuya caught an airplane in the center shot - look near the lower left. The 3rd shot shows the first photo of the plum blossoms.
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Now we are en-route to the Plum Garden and all 3 shots in this row show beautiful plum blossoms.
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Here are 2 more shots of Plum Blossoms and then a shot of that early cherry - the Kan-Zakura - is shown in 3rd position.
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Here is another shot of the Kan-Zakura. That is followed by a nice shot of Adonis sp. and then a shot of what? Is it a species of Roubai (Chimonanthus sp.)? We don't know. The area inside the box has been brightened to reduce the shadows inside of the flower.
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Here are 2 more shots of Adonis sp. and then another shot of that same unknown bush and its flower which is shown in 3rd position in the above row.
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Here are 3 shots of Adonis sp. In the center shot note the background on the right side - that is one of the Kan-Zakura Cherry trees.
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In this row are 3 shots of Cornus officinalis. Now we are approaching the Plum Garden.
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Now we have arrived at the Plum Garden and everything in this row shows various colored Plum Blossoms.
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Here are 3 more shots of Plum Blossoms, taken in the Plum Garden.
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Here are the final 2 shots of Plum Blossoms and then a shot which shows 2 different colored Hamamelis sp. (Witch Hazel) bushes.
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In this row are 3 shots of Hamamelis sp. (Witch Hazel) flowers. Such a common and little bush, but such intriguing and beautiful flowers!
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Here are 2 more shots of the Hamamelis sp. flowers.
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These are the final 2 shots of Witch Hazel (Hamamelis sp.) flowers.
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There is only one photo in this row to see if you can look at it and determine what the subject of the photo is. The photos in the next row are more zoomed in to the subject, but try and find it in this photo first. Did you succeed?
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Okay, if you succeeded in finding the River Kingfishers (Alcedo atthis) in the previous photo then you already knew what the next row would show. Here are 3 increasingly zoomed in shots of these 2 River Kingfishers sitting in a tree. The bird nuts who had been here for some time informed us that they had been sitting there every since the Garden opened. Is this possibly a mating ritual for Kingfishers? Wait each other out or something? How do they determine when the time for mating is ripe? Does one or the other of them go to the branch of the other one? Do you know? If you do, please tell us via the e-mail link at the bottom of the page.
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And here are 3 panoramic images shot with the maximum zoom of my camera. It was not possible to capture both birds in a single photo at maximum zoom - that is why these panoramic images were created.
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