Summer Trip 03 : Botanical Garden on the Top of the Mountain
We hiked in an alpine botanical garden on the top of the mountain. The garden has over 300 species of alpine plants, and 2 million alpine plants. Since the staff of the ski company has planted them since ten years ago, there are some valuable flowers and plants.
One of the most popular flower is this blue poppy(Meconopsis betonicifolia) because it grows in Himarayas which is 4,000 meters elevation. Some people visit the Himarayas to see them because it’s called the phantasmal flower.
However, you can see it at 1,500 meters elevation.
This is Edelweiss (Meconopsis betonicifolia) from Switzerland.
It’s famous because of the song.
This is “Takane Nadeshiko.”(Dianthus superbus var. speciosus)
It feels soft, as if you were caressing children. (Naderu in Japanese)
This is “NikkoKisuge” It’s called “One Day Flower” because the flower can live only a day.
However, you can see them every day because tons of flowers bloom.
Hmm, I forgot the name of it but it’s also very beautiful.
Many photographers gathered at the garden to take good photos.
Of coures, my family and I enjoyed hiking and seeing various flowers.
Wow! I learned a lot from the post!
I learned what a ‘phantasmal flower’ is…
I learned that Edelweiss is a flower!
And I learned what ‘Nadeshiko” means… interesting! Thanks~
My pleasure. I’m happy to hear that. I also learned the flowers during the trip.
I love the delicacy of the Dianthus but the blue poppy is world class.
Thanks. Yes, blue puppy was amazing.
You take beautiful photos Cocomino. I enjoyed the descriptions too.
Many thanks. All of them are beautiful and valuable.
You get a blue poppy? マジ で?! o_0 If you hadn’t included the photo, I wouldn’t have believed you.
Though my favourite in this beautiful collection is nadeshiko … the flowers and the soccer team!
Haha I didn’t think that the blue poppy is such rare plants.
Nadesiko Japan won against Brazil team. It’s great and now Japanese male team may win Egypt team.
What a beautiful blue poppy!
Indeed. Thank you.
What a beautiful collection. I really love the blue colour of the poppy – it is gorgeous. We have flowers like the ‘Nikkokisuge’ called ‘Day Lilies’.
“Day Life” sounds a good word. I learned a lot. Thanks. They were really beautiful.
Thank you for the photos of the flowers. They are so beautiful
My pleasure. They were really nice to take photos.
I’ve never seen a blue poppy! Very nice!
Thanks much. It was interesting to see such precious flower.
Lovely flowers!
Yes, thanks.
ﾌﾞﾙｰﾎﾟﾋﾟｰ、これほど綺麗な水色の花は珍しですね。 青色の薔薇を、人工で作るまでにとても苦労したそうです。 歌にうたわれるエーデルワイス、高嶺の花、タナネナデシコも珍しいですね。 いろいろ見せて頂けてありがとうございました 川*’-') ♪
楽しんでいただいて何よりです。ずいぶんスタッフの人もここまで作るのに苦労したと言ってました。その分、観光客もたくさん来てました。
Such a fun and beautiful trip. The images of the flowers were so wonderful.
Thank you so much. We experienced various precious things.
The diathus are really pretty, which ones did your daughters like the most?
My daughters liked a blue poppy. It’s cute.
This is the first time I have seen a blue one.
Me, too. It’s unique.
What a wonderful trip. The pictures are really beautiful. Great trip.
Many thanks. I’m really glad to hear that. That’s encouraging.
Your photos and sharing of your visits… sublime. TY!
Many thanks. They became good memory for us.
I love hiking in the alps at this time…the flowers are beautiful!
Yes, the flowers are very nice.
Love the photos … very informative post.
Thank you so much. They are really interesting.
This must have made for a very beautiful hike – the flowers are gorgeous!
Many thanks. It was a wonderful hiking.
What a lovely botanical garden that seems to be. And the photos as well. The blue poppy is quite extraordinary, but I also really like the edelweiss.
Thank you so much. The edelweiss of the music is very famous but the flower isn’t known well, I guess.
It’s so cute.
Wow, 300 species! That would be a place I’d love to visit, but I might be there all day taking photos. The flowers are beautiful! I have not seen some of them before.
Many thanks. Yes, tons of photographers were keen on taking photos there. I’m sure that you’ll get nice photos.
Wow! My favorite blue flower! How lovely!
Thank you!