SAKURA TREE - THE LITTLE BRANCH
ROMANCE IS IN THE AIR!
THE MAGICAL SAKURA TREE BY THE LITTLE BRANCH
In Japan, cherries play a hugely important role in daily life. hanami, the festival that honours the arrival of the cherry blossom, is celebrated throughout the country. Families and friends go in parties to view the massed blossoms, making a day of it with special picnics.
The onset of the opening blossoms is tracked daily on the news as it moves northwards from the warmer south around Okinawa in January, to Tokyo in late March and up in the mountains and around Hokkaido in April. Although this would seem to be a long flowering season, it only lasts in each place for a short while and its impact lies in the fact that the cherry trees are suddenly and completely covered in blossom. Just as suddenly, the petals fall like snow and are lost within a week.
Short lived cherry blossom has been a traditional metaphor for the ephimerality of life followed by the inevitability of death. The lesson for life is to appreciate the moment, the intense beauty and optimistic joy or spring, before it passes.
The variety most widely planted is 'Someio-Yoshino' and was probably introduced in the mid 1800's. It is probably a cross with a Korean species.
Although it has become a national tradition, Hanami must be fairly recent in japanese history, even though sakura, cherry blossom, has always been revered and portrayed in pictures and poems. There are records of the nobility as far back as the third century celebrating cherries. Now everyone can follow the ritual of visiting the blossoms.
Most of the Japanese flowering cherries were developed from Prunus serrulata and Prunus sieboldii. Prunus serrulata was the first of these cherries to be widely grown in Europe. Ironicall, it was first introduced from canton in China.
It is a beautiful tree in its own right - of small stature with a plateau like top, with bunches of double white flowers. Prunus sieboldii is now known as Prunus 'takasago'. It is a pretty spreading tree with double flowers of pale pink. The resulting Sekura crossed, Somei Yoshino, have doubl, pure white flowers with a pink blush at the base with just enough variation to give the breathtaking, frothy look when seen from a distance.
This gorgeous, magical, romantic tree by the fabulous designer Cari McKeenan is now available at the Liaison Collaborative. May it bring you lasting love, peace and happiness.
The onset of the opening blossoms is tracked daily on the news as it moves northwards from the warmer south around Okinawa in January, to Tokyo in late March and up in the mountains and around Hokkaido in April. Although this would seem to be a long flowering season, it only lasts in each place for a short while and its impact lies in the fact that the cherry trees are suddenly and completely covered in blossom. Just as suddenly, the petals fall like snow and are lost within a week.
Short lived cherry blossom has been a traditional metaphor for the ephimerality of life followed by the inevitability of death. The lesson for life is to appreciate the moment, the intense beauty and optimistic joy or spring, before it passes.
The variety most widely planted is 'Someio-Yoshino' and was probably introduced in the mid 1800's. It is probably a cross with a Korean species.
Although it has become a national tradition, Hanami must be fairly recent in japanese history, even though sakura, cherry blossom, has always been revered and portrayed in pictures and poems. There are records of the nobility as far back as the third century celebrating cherries. Now everyone can follow the ritual of visiting the blossoms.
Most of the Japanese flowering cherries were developed from Prunus serrulata and Prunus sieboldii. Prunus serrulata was the first of these cherries to be widely grown in Europe. Ironicall, it was first introduced from canton in China.
It is a beautiful tree in its own right - of small stature with a plateau like top, with bunches of double white flowers. Prunus sieboldii is now known as Prunus 'takasago'. It is a pretty spreading tree with double flowers of pale pink. The resulting Sekura crossed, Somei Yoshino, have doubl, pure white flowers with a pink blush at the base with just enough variation to give the breathtaking, frothy look when seen from a distance.
This gorgeous, magical, romantic tree by the fabulous designer Cari McKeenan is now available at the Liaison Collaborative. May it bring you lasting love, peace and happiness.
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