Morning Eye Candy: Outside Osaka

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on February 5 2012, by Matt Newman

Many a blossoming tree on Garden grounds originates in Asia, and each–at least to me–carries with it a familiar air of eastern aesthetic. I suppose we owe that to the centuries of botanical imagery recorded in the artistic traditions of places like Korea, China, and Japan. The Japanese apricot (also Chinese plum, or simply “plum blossom”) is something of an archetype.

In this case, beauty isn’t fleeting: there’s a plum blossom tree in China that’s still flowering after 1,600 years.

Prunus mume ‘Peggy Clarke’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen