Friday, September 26, 2008

Seven Flowers


bushclover a pink kuzu vine


Do you know "Seven flowers of autumn"? They are famous among Japanese people. They are ornamental plants. They are bushclover (hagi) , Japanese pampas grass (obana) , kuzu vine (kuzu) , a pink (nadeshiko), Patrinia scabiosaefolia (ominaen), wort (fuzibakama), and a belflower (kikyo).



Japanses culure has "Seven harbs of spring". We eat "nanakusagayu" in spring. Japanese people have believed that it remove bad things from our body. Actually, it is good for our health. Nanakusagayu make up the less nutritions. So, we can prevent from catching cold.

On the other hands, seven flowers of autumn does not have special event. We just enjoy watching it. Ancestry people often read Haiku watching these flowers. It become because of Yamanoueno-Okura. He read the Haiku about that seven flowers at first. Then, people strated to enjoy seing it.

I can't explain all of seven flowers, but I will explain about my favorite. My favorite flower of seven is a belflower. It is so cute, isn't it? It is called also balloon flower, because it looks like balloon before it bloom. We can see it from June to September. Gardening flower has pink and white but it is perpul generary. It is used as good medecine. we sometimes put it in the bath tab.




Autamun is beautiful season. There are many color in the nature. Why don't you attend to the nature? Maybe, most of people are not interested in it. However, the flowers are good cultures . We should not forget about it.

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