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Plum blossoms start blooming from the last part of January every year, but this year the blossoms hardly began to bloom even in March. I thought because it got very cold at the time of blooming, but someone said because the plum trees were in the state of dehydration due to the excessive heat of the last summer. However, I finally found that the plum blossoms came into bloom in mid-March.
\nWell, I report the first flower news of this year, plum blossoms, below.<\/p>\n
1. Suigetsu Park
\nSuigetsu Park is in Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture, and has an area of about 4 hectares. When you get off at Ishibashi Handai-mae Station on Hankyu Railway and walk for about 15 minutes, you can reach it. You can also use a bus. The park is famous for various flowers such as cherry blossoms and irises in addition to the plum blossoms, and many people go to see the flowers there at each flowering time. About 250 plum trees are planted in the park, in which there are both regular plum trees extending their branches sideways or upward and weeping plum trees. Every year, white and red flowers come out in February. We went there on March the first; however, only about 10% of buds were opened, as shown in the photos below. Nevertheless, the day we went there was warm and we could see white-eye on the trees bearing flowers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"