Yurigahara koen

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Is anyone there?

I have pictures to share! 

Sorry it's been a while....... a long while. We are now in our last week and after an unintentional hiatus from blogging, I feel the urge to share the backlog of photos! We have been busy cramming in the last things with my dad, busy with lab work (Kevin anyway), busy with planning a business (yeah, I'm nuts I know), and cursing the never ending rain! Argh! Seriously, enough already with the rain!!

So here's a glimpse of the past... It's a picture heavy post and I'm just gonna split this into parts, ok? :)

I feel generic using the same line but sue me ;)

 

The rest of Yurigahara koen. 

Before we even ventured to find the muscari walk, we stopped to eat lunch. My dad bought a whole fish from the supermarket near the subway station. :D We ate under a patch of blooming wisteria. Beautiful! 

After the wisteria, we found muscari walk. 

Then when we left that slice of heaven, we just meandered and found the flower shop and some gardens. 

These hanging baskets outside the flower shop were some of the most amazing I've ever seen!

Tulips and pansies. 

You see why this place was heaven for me, right?!

 

There was a conservatory/greenhouse but we opted to skip it and instead we just got a coffee and ice cream from the vending machine in the front. 

We passed this tree, the rose walk (no blooms) and found the lilac collection. 

 

My dad and I were impressed by this tree.

 

Then we walked through this little herb garden into the heather garden and rock garden. 

 

I'm afraid to say, this is it for yurigahara koen pictures. For now. The place was gorgeous, so excited to go again tomorrow! 

I'll leave you with a picture from the fountain at another corner of the park (which was paid entry of about $1.50), the world garden. (also really cool).

 

Odori park flowers

Thursday morning we set out to Odori park and to find the Hokkaido University botanical garden. The flower beds through out Odori park are just beautiful, lots of pansies and tulips. (My kinda people here!)

Sapporo is known for its lilacs. 

There's even a festival here in Odori park that they were setting up for! :) 

 

Kevin's always so embarrassed by the posed tourist shots. 

God forbid you take out a map! 

 

You can see in the back of this picture, they were setting up the vendor tents for the lilac festival.

 

The three of us are such geeks, this statue brought to mind good ol' GoT. ;)

 

There was a little corner of one of the blocks that had a whole spring flower display. So many pretty flowers. So many ideas for a future garden!

 

I tried getting some of the signs in the photos so I could remember the names. 

This was Tulipa "Santa Claus".

 

Tulipa 'candy prince'

Tulipa 'Lingerie'

Tulipa "Paul Scherrer"

Didn't get the name of this one...

 

 Ruffled pansies! AAaaaaaah! Viola 'Moulin Rouge Chianti'

One of my favorite tulips they had: 'Hemisphere'

Sleeping baby. :)

My composition and photo quality wasn't quite up to par in my opinion, but I took all these pictures with sleeping 10+ kg strapped to the front of me so you'll understand if I wasn't really into bending over LOL!

 

This little bit of the garden was my favorite. Oooh, gives me chills it's so pretty! Perfect shades of blue, pink, and purple. Tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinth, and pansies. Can it get more perfect?

 

This idea is going to stick with me for life: grape hyacinth path. 

♥♥

 

Next post: botanical garden fun!