I don't know my trees that well, but all the deep burgundy, bright glowing red and yellow-peach leaves seem to be on Japanese maples. The park includes several ponds, a small, sad zoo where I still couldn't resist taking a picture of the mere cats, numerous gardens, and a Buddhist temple. One of the things that makes the Fall color here so spectacular is that it's not that cold, and there is still a lot of other plants that are green and flowering! Here are a few pictures for you to see. As nice as some of these are, they don't do it justice.
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| Higashi Koen 11/30/08 |
2 comments:
Marsha,
These photos are unbelievable! I'm so jealous of your trip; I've been wanting to go to Japan for a while now. I hope you're having a great time and maybe you are getting some Aikido in? I read your postcard that you sent to the Dojo (we have it posted on the announcement wall) and I hope you're having better luck with the search. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and I can't wait to read more and see more pics!
-Alex Lyscars
Portland Aikido Dojo
(also from Marcy Angelo's Sudan benefit)
Yes, these are japanese maples, thanks to your close-up. Yu should plant one at home in Portland to remember your trip. This is from wikipedia:
* 'Aka shigitatsu sawa', pinkish-white leaves with green veins
* 'Ao ba jo' — a dwarf with bronze-green summer foliage
* 'Atropurpureum' — wine-red, including new branches
* 'Bloodgood' — an improved cultivar of 'Atropurpureum'
* 'Butterfly' — small leaves with white borders
* 'Dissectum' — lace-like leaves, drooping habit
* 'Golden Pond' — greenish-yellow summer foliage
* 'Goshiki koto hime' — a delicate, variegated dwarf
* 'Higasa yama' — crinkled leaves variegated with yellow
* 'Hupp's Dwarf' — a small, dense shrub with miniature leaves
* 'Issai nishiki kawazu' — very rough, rigid bark
* 'Kagiri nishiki' — similar to 'Butterfly' but more pinkish tones
* 'Karasu gawa' — slow-growing variegate with brilliant pink and white
* 'Katsura' — yellow-green leaves tipped with orange
* 'Koto no ito' — light green, thread-like leaves
* 'Little Princess' — a sparsely-branched dwarf with irregular habit
* 'Mama' — a bushy dwarf with extremely variable foliage
* 'Masu murasaki' — a shrubby tree with purple leaves
* 'Mizu kuguri' — orange-tinted new growth and very wide habit
* 'Nishiki gawa' — pinetree-like park desirable for bonsai
* 'Nomura nishiki' - dark purple, lace-like leaves
* 'Ojishi' — tiny dwarf, grows only a few centimetres per year
* 'Osakazuki' — tree-like shrub with spectacular autumn colour
* 'Peaches and Cream' — similar to 'Aka shigitatsu sawa'
* 'Pink Filigree' — finely dissected, brownish-pink leaves
* 'Red Filigree Lace' — delicate, finely dissected, dark purple
* 'Sango kaku' — "coralbark maple" with pinkish-red bark
* 'Seiryu' — a green, tree-like shrub with finely dissected leaves
* 'Shikage ori nishiki' — vase-shaped shrub with dull purple foliage
* 'Skeeter's Broom' — derived from a 'Bloodgood' witch's broom
* 'Tamukeyama' — finely dissected, dark purple, cascading habit
* 'Tropenburg' — slender, upright grower, convex lobes, purple leaves
* 'Tsuma gaki' — yellow leaves with reddish-purple borders
* '*'Yuba e' — upright tree with scarlet variegation
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