Hanayama Park in Tatebayashi
Just the spot for Azaleas
Though I am not much of a horticulturist, visiting Hanayama Park for the first time in 2011 was quite impressive. However, sadly my friend and I got a little lost in translation. The park has many types of plants not just azaleas, and we didn't know what the Japanese term for azalea was (or really any other flower for that matter). We saw a sign that in kanji said "old group of trees" and both of us were imagining huge tall trunks like the forests in our home countries. We searched and searched but all we could find were azaleas! The in park signage was also kinda crap, so when we had had our fill of azaleas we gave up and called it a day. Only later did we realize that it was a grove of old AZALEA trees, and we had been looking at them the whole time. ha ha ha ha.
Though I am not much of a horticulturist, visiting Hanayama Park for the first time in 2011 was quite impressive. However, sadly my friend and I got a little lost in translation. The park has many types of plants not just azaleas, and we didn't know what the Japanese term for azalea was (or really any other flower for that matter). We saw a sign that in kanji said "old group of trees" and both of us were imagining huge tall trunks like the forests in our home countries. We searched and searched but all we could find were azaleas! The in park signage was also kinda crap, so when we had had our fill of azaleas we gave up and called it a day. Only later did we realize that it was a grove of old AZALEA trees, and we had been looking at them the whole time. ha ha ha ha.
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| Helpful direction signs in the park... |
I guess we should have done a little more vocab studying before this trip. ha ha ha.
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