After our trot in Odori park, we went to Hokkaido University botanical garden.
It was 400 yen per person to get in and worth every penny if you ask me.
Brace yourselves again, flower pictures are coming!
This giant pale pink rhodorendron was close to the entrance of the park.
Blooming forsythia.
Our picnic spot under this massive tree. Sushi and tea for lunch!
We walked through the wooded arboretum bit of the park to a garden area.
Very inspiring for how I'd like my dream kitchen garden to look. The beds were lined with roof tiles!
We walked on to a rose garden, complete with tadpole filled pond in the middle.
Under the trees on the outskirts of the garden, there were flowers to be admired. :)
Obviously none of the roses are blooming yet, but this is a place I will have to revisit once they do!
A rose tunnel of climbing rose vines... ooh fantasy!
They had a partnership with Oregon something or other (university was it?), and it was in the form of this rock garden.
The rock garden quickly became a bushy azalea place.
This bush was so red, that the camera doesn't even capture it.
I couldn't get over how lush this play of colors was.
The path went on to a little babbling brook and waterfall, then to an algae filled pond and this gorgeous tree.
Then there was a little area with I believe, most of the species of plants found in the garden with their name in Japanese and Latin.
And this pink tree was I believe a "decorative" apple tree like in Finland and not a cherry tree!
(The sign said malus = the latin name for a type of apple tree)
Next up: pictures of the greenhouse!
Told you this was my paradise! :)
