#fleur blossom

[maureen2musings]

Scattering blossoms, the dream of a butterfly...

pc.koublis

[flowerishness]

Prunus × subhirtella (spring cherry, winter-flowering cherry)

Possibly the earliest flowering cherry blossom, this spring cherry is putting on quite a show on a sunny, March afternoon.

[feuilletourne-sir20]

Tournefeuille, couleurs rosées de printemps (2)

Tournefeuille, pinky spring colours (2)

by sir20 for feuilletourne-sir20

[love-for-carnation]

Vase of Mixed Flowers, about 1872 Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904, American)

[quentindouchetphotographie]

Douces étoiles des montagnes.

(Edelweiss - Leontopodium alpinum).

(Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes - Juillet 2023).

A Julie…

© Quentin Douchet.

[aesthetically-flora]

🥹🌸💫

[glamboyl]

La Fleur Jaune by Tara Turner 2018

[lerefugedeluza]

Un peu de calme au milieu de tout ce bruit.

[coffeenuts]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Chaque fleur est une âme qui s'épanouit dans la nature.

- Gérard De Nerval

[maureen2musings]

another_blue_sky

[flowerishness]

Prunus serrulata var. 'Kanzan' (Japanese flowering cherry) and Apis mellifera (Western honey bee)

Hanami

When people talk about cherry blossoms they usually mean this species, Prunus serrulata, the Japanese flowering cherry. In Japan Hanami (花見, "flower viewing") is the traditional Japanese custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers (花, hana) but it almost always refers to pink flowering cherry trees(桜).

In Vancouver, the history of cherry blossoms dates back to the 1930s. Two of the main Japanese port cities, Kobe and Yokohama, donated 500 trees to the Japanese cenotaph in Stanley Park to honor Japanese Canadians who served in the First World War.

There are now over 45,000 cherry trees in Vancouver. We have an annual Hanami Festival and I think this year's must-see event is the Sakura Days Japan Fair at the Van Dusen Botanical Garden (April 13/14). I'll be there. I think I'll take my camera. I'm hoping for a sunny day.

[feuilletourne-sir20]

Tournefeuille, printemps au soleil couchant

Tournefeuille, spring colour at sunset

by sir20 for feuilletourne-sir20

[hansdurrer]

Mishima, Japan, 19 April 2019

[richardsfotoseite]

Frühlingsblumen - Vergissmeinnicht spring flowers - forget me not

[heavenly-garden]

Photography by Egor Belov (Link)