Showing posts with label Japanese traditional plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese traditional plants. Show all posts

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Pink Fairy



Like pink fairies in the woods...



You can find them here and there...



Found a cluster of them:)

 


It's a Japanese traditional plant, called Lykoris Squamigera, late summer-blooming bulb of the Amaryllis family.



It doesn't have leaves, but it did.  In early spring, the bulb produces leaves, but all of them fall before summer comes. Afterwards, it grows only a stem, then produces some flowers at the end of it. So, Lykoris Squamigera appears to be dead once, but comes to life again and produces such lovely flowers! That's why it has another name, like "resurrection lily" or "magic lily."


I think that this trumpet-shaped flower seems like fairy's skirt:)



Beautiful , it has poison, though...



 

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Japanese traditional plants "Ikariso"

I love Japanese traditional plants.





Generally, they hate direct sun in mid summer.

So it is challenging for our roofless balcony to grow them.

But I can't give up...




Because some of them have such lovely flowers:)

This flower's name is "Ikariso"


What they attract me is not only flowers...



but also beautiful leaves :)