🍑🌸BEWILDERING BLOSSOMS🌰🍊

Camellia Tea Ceremony

BEWILDERING BLOSSOMS

Spring's great conundrum...which blossom is which?

There comes a period in the year when species of ume, quince, peach, cherry and almond trees can all be seen in bloom‍

Camellia Tea Ceremony

THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR

Ume (梅の花):
Flowers grow directly from the branch and have no stem.

are the sparrows too
having a private party?
plum blossoms
雀らも身祝するか梅の花
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1804.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.

Camellia Tea Ceremony

Momo (桃の花):
Flowers bloom in pairs from short stems (petals are always pink, and diamond in shape).

my mean peach tree
nice and chubby
with blossoms
苦桃の花のほちゃほちゃ咲にけり
-Issa, 1809.