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Fragrant garden: Smell some heliotrope to soothe your nerves
Gardening in Japan: Pincushion nertera for nerds
Gardens in “broom”: Genista broom
Gardens in Japan: “Baby blue-eyes” Nemophila
Gardens in Japan: “Geisha girl” – Duranta repens
Gardens in Japan: African Daisies
Gardens in Japan: Agrostemma “Buckwheat Dianthus”
Gardens in Japan: Allure of the Allium giganteum
Gardens in Japan: Aloe vera in flower
Gardens in Japan: Angel’s Wings
Gardens in Japan: Arenaria montania
Gardens in Japan: Ark Hills rooftop gardens
Gardens in Japan: Bidens and Beauty Berries (Callicarpa)
Gardens in Japan: Bleeding Hearts or Dutchman’s Breeches
Gardens in Japan: Blue garden border
Gardens in Japan: Blue themed garden
Gardens in Japan: Brunfelsia for the fragrant garden
Gardens in Japan: Buy a bacopa for your balcony
Gardens in Japan: California poppy
Gardens in Japan: Canterbury Bells and other Campanula
Gardens in Japan: Cherry Sage is a bee magnet
Gardens in Japan: Christmas Cactus
Gardens in Japan: Cleome
Gardens in Japan: Coreopsis – the “Bedbug” Flower
Gardens in Japan: Covet the Candycane Wood Sorrel for the colouring
Gardens in Japan: Creeping phlox (shiba-zakura)
Gardens in Japan: Cyclamen
Gardens in Japan: Dainty diascias
Gardens in Japan: English cottage garden staples
Bellis perennis – the English Daisy and other daisies
Gardens in Japan: Comfrey for your comfort
Gardens in Japan: Delphiniums are never dull
Gardens of Japan: Signals of spring on the Hebe
Gardens in Japan: Evergreen enishida (gorse)
Gardens in Japan: Everyone loves a daisy
Gardens in Japan: Feathery fothergillas (shirobana mansaku)
Gardens in Japan: Flowering Spotted Emu Bush
Gardens in Japan: Fox’s Face Solanum (kitsune-no-kao)
Gardens in Japan: Gorgeous Gazanias!
Gardens in Japan: Hibiscus for hot summer days
Gardens in Japan: Hibiscus for hot summery days
Gardens in Japan: Hibiscus mutabilis
Gardens in Japan: Lupinus
Gardens in Japan: On the tulip trail
Gardens in Japan: Painted Pea
Gardens of Japan: Beloperone
Gardens of Japan: Cape fuchsia
Gardens of Japan: Firethorn or Piracantha
Gardens of Japan: Narcissus or daffodils in March
Gardens of Japan: Signals of spring on the Hebe
Gardens of Japan: Wonderful Winter Clematis
History of the rose – is an East-meets-West story
Plant Paradise: Anemones with flower power
Plant Paradise: Azalea gallery
Plant Paradise: Blue Daystar
Plant Paradise: Clamour for the clematis
Plant paradise: Crabapple tree (hana-kaido)
Plant paradise: Hibiscus mutabilis
Plant paradise: History of the lotus
Plant paradise: Japanese harebells
PLANT PARADISE: PLANTING HEDGES WITH PHOTINIA
Plant paradise: Tiers of tibouchina (nouboutan)
The importance of rice
SURVIVING THE FORCES OF NATURE
“Quakes aren’t predictable in time, space or intensity”
About Aftershocks (in the aftermath of the Tohoku Quake)
Earth & Fire: Above the Pacific Ring of Fire lies Japan
Flooding of Tokyo Bay area a potentially serious disaster waiting to happen
Mount Aso, Japan
Mt Asama erupts
Seismic activity increases around Japanese volcanoes after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Shinmoe and other Japanese volcanoes
The next great shake
Japan and the Pacific Ring of Fire…
Japan’s Earthquake Phenomena Observation System – how it works
On the unpredictability of Japanese earthquakes
Primer on the Tokai Megaquake
Catastrophe and Challenge Produce Ingenuity and Innovation
Surprise quake shows Japan’s vulnerability
HABITATS & BIOMES OF JAPAN
Doshi village forests & the importance of watershed forests
Dune and coastal vegetation
Forests on the fringe
Fungi finds: Giant shrooms of Tateyama Alps
Fungi Finds: Matsutake
Fungi finds: Matsutake mushrooms
Fungi finds: Phallus impudicus
Gardens in Japan: Hardenbergia (komachi-fuji)
Gardens in Japan: Helipterum makes a pretty paper cascade
Gardens in Japan: Hostas are the highlight of the shade garden
Gardens in Japan: Hot pink lilies
Gardens in Japan: Ice Plant
Gardens in Japan: Kingyoso -goldfish or snapping dragons?
Gardens in Japan: Kiwi Tea Tree a trial to care for
Gardens in Japan: Kolkwitzia – the Beauty Bush (utsugi)
Gardens in Japan: Ladies’ Purse (Calceolaria)
Gardens in Japan: Lantana are delightful additions to any garden
Gardens in Japan: Leschenaultia – Blue Floor of the Sky!
Gardens in Japan: Lobelia
Gardens in Japan: Lovely Lapeirousia laxa (hime-hiougi)
Gardens in Japan: Marmalade Tree
Gardens in Japan: Merry Millionbells
Gardens in Japan: Mexican Sage
Gardens in Japan: Mickey Mouse Flower
Gardens in Japan: Mimosa in March
Gardens in Japan: Mona Lavender (Spur Flower)
Gardens in Japan: Nasturtiums make nice companion and potted plants
Gardens in Japan: On the trail of erica heath plants
Gardens in Japan: Pass the summer under the passionflower
Gardens in Japan: Photinia hedges are all the rage
Gardens in Japan: Pinks at their peak in May
Gardens in Japan: Plants are grown often for their foliage
Gardens in Japan: Podranea trumpet flower
Gardens in Japan: Poppy parade
Gardens in Japan: Popular perennials – penstemmons
Gardens in Japan: Popular petunias
Gardens in Japan: Purple thistle
Gardens in Japan: Quaker Ladies (shirohanahinaso) as garden ground cover
Gardens in Japan: Queen of the garden – the Madonna lily
Gardens in Japan: Rain, hail or harlequin flower
Gardens in Japan: Rhodohypoxis baurii are rock garden favorites
Gardens in Japan: Rhodokiton
Gardens in Japan: Scabiosa salve for your itch?
Gardens in Japan: Seeking succulent foliage cover and epi-cactuses
Gardens in Japan: Shamrock Plant (a.k.a Wood Sorrel)
Gardens in Japan: Share a Shasta Daisy
Gardens in Japan: Showy Stock Matthiola
Gardens in Japan: Snazzy Snowdrops or “snow-awaiting flower” (matsuyuki-so)
Gardens in Japan: Snowdrop Anemone
Gardens in Japan: Spectacular Cinerarias in the schoolyard
Gardens in Japan: Stokesia
Gardens in Japan: Strobilanthe (Kitsunenomago)
Gardens in Japan: Summer’s sage
Gardens in Japan: Sunflower-spotting
Gardens in Japan: Sunny sedum
Gardens in Japan: Take comfort in the healer’s Common Comfrey
Gardens in Japan: Talking sunflower heads / himawari ha ha ha
Gardens in Japan: The “pierced” honeysuckle
Gardens in Japan: Coral honeysuckle
Gardens in Japan: The beauty of the Buddleia butterfly bush
Gardens in Japan: The bottlebrush breaks out into bloom in May
Gardens in Japan: The bottlebrush tree breaks out into bloom at the end of May
Gardens in Japan: The Fairy Fan Flower (Scaevola aemula)
Gardens in Japan: The hip hippeastrum a.k.a. Amaryllis
Gardens in Japan: The history of clematises
Gardens in Japan: The Ornithogalum ornamental lily (Oomana)
Gardens in Japan: The Ti Plant
Gardens in Japan: Thumbs up for thunbergia alata vines
Gardens in Japan: Tulip trivia
Gardens in Japan: Wild bergamot or horsemint
Gardens in Japan: Yellow heveltia
Gardens in Japan: Zonal Pelargoniums
Gardens of Japan: “The Geisha Girl” – Duranta repens
Gardens of Japan: Beautiful boronia
Gardens of Japan: Chinese New Year Flower or the Hong Kong doudantsutsuji
Gardens of Japan: Fireheath erica
Gardens of Japan: Hellebores history
Gardens of Japan: Hibiscus moscheutos
Gardens of Japan: Yakushi Ike Park’s Herbal & Medicinal Garden
Geoparks: Mt Apoi in Hokkaido
Give a gift of prickly cactus hearts for Valentine’s Day!
Grassland habitat of Sengokuhara Plain
How to identify a tree by its leaves
Impact of human activities on Japanese countryside areas
Impact of human activities on the Japanese countryside
Kerria japonica (yamabuki)
Koshu – The Japanese wine heartland
Kurokawa: Eco-friendly charcoal resources from the woodland
Lantana for landing the butterflies and the bees
Luminescent shrooms cast light on Japan’s forest crisis
Mountain in bloom
Plant paradise: A Farfugium find (Tsuwahuki)
Plant paradise: A fruiting fig tree
Plant paradise: Abelmochus – also known as okra
Plant paradise: Agapanthus umbels
Plant paradise: Ajuga ace it as ground cover
Plant paradise: Ajuga decumbens (Kiran-sou)
Plant paradise: Alpine harebells
Plant paradise: Apricot blossoms (anzu)
Plant paradise: Aquilegia – the eagle-like flower
Plant paradise: Ardisia tree (senryo)
Plant paradise: Baby’s breath spirea
Plant paradise: Balloon flower (kikyo)
Plant paradise: Balloon vine
Plant paradise: Bamboo boardwalk
Plant paradise: Bearded irises
Visit Iris Gardens
Plant paradise: Beautiful begonias
Plant paradise: Beautiful brodiaea (hana-nira)
Plant paradise: beautiful bromeliads
Plant paradise: Beautiful wayside thistle
Plant paradise: Begging for a Bergenia
Plant paradise: Bellflower or balloonflower (kikyo)
Plant paradise: Betula: Beautiful bark of the Japanese white birch tree
Plant paradise: Beware the thorns of the Barberry
Plant paradise: Bindweed (hirugao)
Plant paradise: Bird’s samurai helmet (aconitum)
Plant paradise: Blackberries (Rubus fruticosus)
Plant paradise: Blackthorn and sloe (seiyosumomo)
Plant paradise: Blooming bougainvillea
Plant paradise: Blue bearded irises
Plant paradise: Blue gentian of Hokkaido (Ezo-rintou)
Plant paradise: Blue sailboat / Barrenwort
Plant paradise: Blue speedwell (inu-fuguri)
Plant paradise: Blue-eyed grasses naturalized in Japan
Plant paradise: Bluebells
Plant paradise: Blueberry flowers
Plant paradise: Brilliant blue berries of the Viburnum tinus
Plant paradise: Bring in “the Bride” (Gaura lindheimeri)
Plant paradise: Buddha’s Cushion (hime-odoriko-so)
Plant paradise: Buddha’s Cushion (hotoke-no-za)
Plant paradise: Bush clover
Plant paradise: Butterbur Rhubarb (oni fuuki)
Plant paradise: Butterburr as toilet paper substitute?
Plant paradise: Calabash or Gourd / Lageraria Siseraria (Yugao)
Plant paradise: Calla lilies
Plant paradise: Candycane clover
Plant paradise: Chaenomeles japonica (boke)’s bright blossoms
Plant paradise: Chinese Fringe Tree – Hitotsubatago a hit with gardeners
Plant paradise: Chinese lanterns (abutilon)
Plant paradise: Chinese Rampion (hotarubukuro)
Plant paradise: Chinese wolfberries
Plant paradise: Chrysanthemum and crests
Plant paradise: Chusan Palm in “broom” now
Plant paradise: Clover leaves and chain-making
Plant paradise: Cobra lily
Plant paradise: Collectible clivia orchids (kunshiran)
Plant paradise: Colour your garden with cotoneaster berries
Plant paradise: Colour your world with clematises
Plant paradise: Colourful clivia (kunshiran)
Plant paradise: Common kudzu vine
Plant paradise: Corncockle – a comely weed
Plant paradise: Corydalis the comely weed
Plant paradise: Crimson columbines
Plant paradise: Crinkled cockscomb (keito)
Plant paradise: Cucumber grass (kiiurigusa) don’t bear cucumbers but they sure smell good!
Plant paradise: Cushy cattails (gama)
Plant paradise: Daggers from Dogwood (Hana mizuki)
Plant paradise: Dainty diascia for December
Plant paradise: Dandelions
Plant paradise: Datura – flowers fit for dinosaurs
Plant paradise: Day of the Dianthus
Plant paradise: Dazzling Dianthus (nadeshiko)
Plant paradise: December season’s euphoria over Euphorbia
Plant paradise: Delight in the Viburnum dilatatum
Plant paradise: Demon’s lanterns
Plant paradise: Deutzia gracilis (hime-utsugi)
Plant paradise: Dogwood details
Plant paradise: Edgeworthia – the “money tree”
Plant paradise: Eichornia
Plant paradise: Elegant snowbells of the Enkianthus (doudantsutsuji)
Plant paradise: Evening primrose spring up everywhere in summer
Plant paradise: Fall gentian on Mt. Yatsugatake
Plant paradise: Fatsia japonica – the Tengu goblin’s fan
Plant paradise: Find an evening primrose in my garden patch
Plant paradise: Finding Fern fronds (urajiro)
Plant paradise: Fine forsythia (rengyo)
Plant paradise: Foliage of fall – the London Plane Tree
Plant paradise: Forsythia (rengyo) – first flowers of spring
Plant paradise: Fragrant Sweet Daphne (jinchoge)
Plant paradise: Fringed iris (shaga) iris japonica
Plant paradise: Gamazumi for great winter colour
Plant paradise: Gamazumi Viburnum provide great winter colour
Plant paradise: Gardenias (kuchinashi) for sultry summers
Plant paradise: Giant lotuses of Yakushi Ike
Plant paradise: Going daft over daffodils
Plant paradise: Gomphrena (sesonichikou)
Plant paradise: Gooseneck Blooms
Plant paradise: Grasses in November
Plant paradise: Great Burnet
Plant paradise: Grow Adonis for wealth and happiness (fuku-ju-so)
Plant paradise: Grow Cotoneaster cover for your feathered friends
Plant paradise: Hanashobu irises put on a show
Plant paradise: Hard-to-get-rid of horsetails
Plant paradise: Hebe for winter color in the garden
Plant paradise: Helleborus history
Plant paradise: Hemerocallis goes to our heads
Plant paradise: Here’s looking at the Lily longiflorum (teppouyuri)
Plant paradise: Heuchera in bloom
Plant paradise: History of the Clematis
Plant paradise: History of the Japanese Morning Glory
Plant paradise: Morning glory (asagao)
Plant paradise: Horsetails were humongous in prehistoric times!
Plant paradise: Hosta, a peacock of a plant
Plant paradise: How grows your hagi?
Plant paradise: Hyacinth orchid (Shiran)
Plant paradise: Hydrangeas bloom ahead of a humid summer
Plant paradise: Hyoutangumi
Plant paradise: Iridescent irises of April
Plant paradise: Irises in May
Plant paradise: Jack and the kudzu beanstalk
Plant paradise: Japan’s mountain maples
Plant paradise: Japanese anise (shikimi)
Plant paradise: Japanese clematis (a.k.a Sweet Autumn Clematis)
Plant paradise: Japanese hawthorn (sharinbai)
Plant paradise: Japanese lanterns (hozuki)
Plant paradise: Japanese Photinia plants make good hedges
Plant paradise: Japanese Pieris
Plant paradise: Japanese Prickly ash (sansho)
Plant paradise: Japanese pumpkins
Plant paradise: Japanese red rose (No-ibara)
Plant paradise: June’s Sweet Briar Rose (hamanasu)
Plant paradise: Kanto tanpopo vs Seiyo tanpopo
Plant paradise: Kawarazuzakura kicks in the spring season
Plant paradise: Kerria japonica (yamabuki) gold is the colour of gold and bribes
Plant paradise: Yamabuki (Kerria japonica)
Plant paradise: Korean morning glory (chosen asagao)
Plant paradise: Kunugi acorns
Plant paradise: Kurume tsutsuji
Plant paradise: Legend of the “heron” flower (sagisou)
Plant paradise: Lilies of Japan
Plant paradise: The Bermuda lily is really a native Japanese lily
Plant paradise: Lily of the Valley (Suzuran)
Plant paradise: Lizard’s tail (dokudami)
Plant paradise: Lizard’s tail (dokudami)
Plant paradise: Lofty liatris
Plant paradise: Looking at Liriope (yabura)
Plant paradise: Lovely luculia pinceana
Plant paradise: Magnificent magnolias of Japan
Plant paradise: Mahonia barberries (hiragi-nanten)
Plant paradise: Mansaku of March (Witchhazel)
Plant paradise: March’s Japanese Mahonia (hiragi-nanten)
Plant paradise: Merry Malva
Plant paradise: Mind your mimosas
Plant paradise: Mirabilis at four o’clock
Plant paradise: Moonseed (tsuzurafuji)
Plant paradise: Mountain mulberry has a prehistoric connection with man
Plant paradise: Mums of the Land of the Chrysanthemum
Plant paradise: Murasaki Shikibu shrub covered in mauve berries
Plant paradise: Murasaki Shikibu’s Beauty Berries
Plant paradise: Narcissus naturalized in Japan 1,000 years ago
Plant paradise: native alpine heathers
Plant paradise: Native yellow roses
Plant paradise: Nippon Lily
Plant paradise: Nuphar japonicum (kouhone)
Plant paradise: On the trail of the trumpet creeper
Plant paradise: native nosenkazura for a splash of summer colour
Plant paradise: Oriental bittersweet
Plant paradise: Oriental bittersweet (tsurumodoki)
Plant paradise: Oriental tulip (Amana)
Plant paradise: Ornamental peach (Hana-momo)
Plant paradise: Ornery oxalis (hanakatabami)
Plant paradise: Osmanthus or Fragrant Olive (kinmokusei)
Plant paradise: Osmanthus in October
Plant paradise: Oy! it’s an Oleander (kyouchikutou)
Plant paradise: Paederia scandens (hekusougazura)
Plant paradise: Painted peas
Plant paradise: Paradise lily (higanbana)
Plant paradise: Peace lily is your perfect air-pollution cleaner
Plant paradise: Peony – The Flower Fairy
Plant paradise: Persimmon – pride of October
Plant paradise: Pieris japonica
Plant paradise: Pink polygonatum
Plant paradise: Plant Chinese redbuds for striking colour
Plant paradise: Plants and Flowers of Hakone
Plant paradise: Plum power!
Plant paradise: Pomegranate (zakuro) – golden fruit for the gods
Plant paradise: popular pyracantha
Plant paradise: Porcelain berries
Plant paradise: In bloom / Nobudo
Plant paradise: Pretty weed – Persicaria sp.
Plant paradise: Purple coral pea (a.k.a. hardenbergia)
Plant paradise: Purple rape blossoms (hanadaikon) pepper the countryside in spring
Plant paradise: Pussy willows don’t wilt easily
Plant paradise: Pussywillow trees are natives of northern Japan
Plant paradise: Ranunculus
Plant paradise: Rape blossoms (nanohana)in a row
Plant paradise: Rape blossoms to power cars
Plant paradise: Red & White hibiscus syriacus (mukuge)
Plant paradise: Red rhododendron
Plant paradise: Ravishing rhododendrons
Plant paradise: Right up your allium alley
Plant paradise: Robust robai (wintersweet)
Plant paradise: Safflower’s ancient uses for lipsticks and dyes
Plant paradise: Sakura – soul of the samurai
Plant paradise: Sakura-so (primula japonica) is not a so-so plant
Plant paradise: Satsuki Splendour
Plant paradise: Scabiosa (matsumushi-so) – the Lady’s Cushion
Plant paradise: Scouting for scutellaria
Plant paradise: Scutellaria var. japonica (tatsunamisou)
Plant paradise: Secret blooms of the Sharinbai – the Yeddo hawthorn
Plant paradise: Seemania sylvatica
Plant paradise: Sesame indicum by the Sagami River
Plant paradise: Shepherd’s purse (nazuna) in spring
Plant paradise: Shibateranthis pinnatifida (setsubunso)
Plant paradise: Shichimi pepper
Plant paradise: Siebold’s primrose (sakura-sou)
Plant paradise: Snake gourd or crow’s gourd (karasu-uri)
Plant paradise: Snowberries
Plant paradise: Snowflakes in spring
Plant paradise: Soaring suzuki pampas grasses
Plant paradise: Solidago sky
Plant paradise: Solomon’s Seal (naruko-uri)
Plant paradise: Somei-yoshino cherry blossom in bloom
Plant paradise: Spiderwort
Plant paradise: Spike winterhazel (tosa mizuki)
Plant paradise: Spindle tree
Plant paradise: Spirae japonica (shimotsuke) in season
Plant paradise: Spit at the water lotus and watch nanotechnology at work
Plant paradise: Sponge gourds often grown on schoolgrounds (hechima)
Plant paradise: Sprays of spirae thunbergii (yukiyanagi) splendour
Plant paradise: Spring’s Shepherd’s Purse
Plant paradise: St. John’s Wort
Plant paradise: Star Rush
Plant paradise: Stewartia – sacred flower
Plant paradise: Stewartia tree’s sacred flower blooms for 1 day
Plant paradise: Stunning sinningias
Plant paradise: Sumire violets – secret of the woods
Plant paradise: Sunflower
Plant paradise: Sunflower-spotting
Plant paradise: Sunny sedum
Plant paradise: Susuki vs. Ogi miscanthus – do you know your grasses?
Plant paradise: Swamp rose mallow (fuyo)
Plant paradise: Take in the Tickseed (a.k.a. coreopsis)
Plant paradise: Tassel tapestry
Plant paradise: Tateyama thistle and other common wayside thistles
Plant paradise: The “jade plant” – the “Happiness Tree”
Plant paradise: The Balloon Lantern (fusentowata)
Plant paradise: The Camellia – a rose without thorns
Plant paradise: The charm of the coralberry (manryo)
Plant paradise: The cotton plant
Plant paradise: The fire heath will resprout after a fire
Plant paradise: The good-for-you goya
Plant paradise: The history of lilies
Plant paradise: The horse chestnut hails the onset of summer
Plant paradise: The hype over hydrangeas
Plant paradise: The Japanese Spurge (fukkiso)
Plant paradise: The Lilac Tree
Plant paradise: The London plane: Platanus acerifolia
Plant paradise: The Manukah Tea Tree
Plant paradise: The Nippon lily (Rhodea japonica) says “all is well”
Plant paradise: The origin of daylilies
Plant paradise: The passionflower in passing
Plant paradise: The Peruvian lily isn’t Peruvian, and the Cuban lily isn’t Cuban
Plant paradise: The pigeonberry (jyuzusango)
Plant paradise: The poisonous American pokeweed can be eaten cooked
Plant paradise: The quiet Calanthe orchid (ebine)
Plant paradise: The screw flower (nejibana)
Plant paradise: The seven herbs of spring
Plant paradise: The stinky tree “kusagi” / Clerodendoron trichotomum
Plant paradise: The tale behind discovery of the metasequoia tree
Plant paradise: The tropical hibiscus (haibisukasu)
Plant paradise: The yama-boshi dogwood “flower” is not a flower
Plant paradise: They danced around Sakaki tree
Plant paradise: Towering dahlias
Plant paradise: tradescantia (murasaki-tsuyukasa)
Plant paradise: Traditional herbs of spring
Plant paradise: Tree ivy (ki-zuta)
Plant Paradise: Tricyrtis – a Tale of the Hairy Toad
Plant paradise: True lilies and day lilies
Plant paradise: Lilies and their common uses
Plant paradise: Two-toned cotton mallow (fuyo)
Plant paradise: Under the Zelkova tree
Plant paradise: Veronica persica is a little flower called Big Dog’s testacles!
Plant paradise: Vibrant viburnum
Plant paradise: Viburnum vigour in the gamazumi
Plant paradise: Vinca vine are popular ground cover
Plant paradise: Violet cress
Plant paradise: Walnuts are for wellness (kurumi)
Plant paradise: Warm shades of calendula for a cold winter
Plant paradise: Watching water lilies bloom
Plant paradise: Watercress
Plant paradise: Weep for one of these weeping plums (shidareume)
Plant paradise: Weigela
Plant paradise: White briar rose (i-bara)
Plant paradise: Wild aster (nokongiku)
Plant paradise: Wild bean (karasu-no-endo)
Plant paradise: Wild Chive (no-biru)
Plant paradise: Wildflowers: Houstonia caerulea ヒナソウ(雛草)
Plant paradise: Windflower (the Japanese Anemone)
Plant paradise: Windflower signals spring
Plant paradise: Winter hazel NOT wintersweet
Plant paradise: Wintersweet (robai)
Plant paradise: Chimonanthus praecox / wintersweet (robai)
Plant paradise: Wisteria week
Plant paradise: Wolfberry (kuko)
Plant paradise: Wonderful winter clematis
Plant paradise: Wood gentians (fude-rintou)
Plant paradise: Yae-zakura or double cherry blossoms are a glorious sight
Plant paradise: Yellow wildflowers
Plant paradise: Yellow yuzu
Plant Paradise: Yurizuha – the Evergreen Daphne
Plant paradise: Zephyranthe primulina (tamasudare)
Plants paradise: Satsuki azaleas signal onset of summer
Ranunculus
Rivers of Japan: Doshi River
Sarobetsu Moorland, Hokkaido
Satoyama landscape in Maioka Park
Satoyama stroll in Maioka Park
The Fragrant Garden
Trees of Japan: “Red hat” rhododendron (Akaboshi-shakunage)
Trees of Japan: “Strawberry” dogwood or cornelian cherry?
Trees of Japan: All about sakura (cherry blossoms)
Trees of Japan: Ancient juniper (Kamakura byakushin)
Trees of Japan: Beautiful bark of the birch tree
Trees of Japan: Beauty of the boke tree (Quince:Chaemeles japonica)
Trees of Japan: Bewitching witch hazels
Trees of Japan: Call of the chestnut cart & Japanese chestnut
Trees of Japan: Camelia – “the shining leaf tree”
Trees of Japan: Canopy cover of double cherries (Yae-zakura)
Trees of Japan: Colourful crape-myrtle (saru-suberi)
Trees of Japan: Countryside quince (kusa-boke)
Trees of Japan: Crimson crape myrtle
Trees of Japan: Deutzia (unohana)
Trees of Japan: Elm trees of Japan
Trees of Japan: Evolution of the Viburnum tree
Trees of Japan: Ficus carica – fig tree among the first plants to be cultivated
Trees of Japan: Flowering fringetree
Trees of Japan: Gardens amok with mokuren magnolia
Trees of Japan: Ginkgo biloba
Trees of Japan: Horse-chestnut trees in bloom
Trees of Japan: Japanese hornbeam tree (2)
Trees of Japan: Japanese hornbeams (soro or shide)
Trees of Japan: Katsuura tree
Trees of Japan: Loquat (biwa) tree bears fruit
Trees of Japan: Magnificent mountain magnolias (hakuren)
Trees of Japan: Magnolia borealis (kobushi)
Trees of Japan: Metasequoia tree
Mukunoki Tree (Aphananthe aspera)
Trees of Japan: Oak, beech trees and their acorns
Trees of Japan: October’s Oriental Plane tree
Trees of Japan: Panicles of idesia polycarpa (iigiri)
Trees of Japan: Quince tree (boke)
Trees of Japan: See red with Japanese mountain maples
Trees of Japan: Soapnut tree (mukuroji)
Trees of Japan: Star magnolia (shidekobushi)
Trees of Japan: The golden ginkgo tree
Trees of Japan: The strawberry dogwood (yamaboshi) doesn’t produce strawberries
Trees of Japan: The Tokyo Cherry (Somei-yoshino)
Trees of Japan: Tulip magnolia (mokkuren)
Trees of Japan: Under the Zelkova tree
Trees of Japan: Wispy willow tree
Tress of Japan: The Sleeping Tree (Nemunoki)
Wetlands: Marshplant of interest
COOL CRITTERS & WILDLIFE OF JAPAN
Akita Inu dogs in Japan
Amphibians & reptiles: Coin turtles
Amphibians: Miyako Toad
Bug box news: Dragonflies are mostly migratory
Bug box news: Global warming and the insect populations (January 16, 2008)
Bug box news: How to halt the bumblebee decline
Bug box news: Mystery of Missing Bees of Miyazaki May 25, 2007
Bug box: A caterpillar is no match for the wasp
Bug box: Ants under attack!
Bug box: Bagworm caterpillars & moths
Bug box: Bees like warmer UV colors
Bug box: Blue dragonflies
Bug box: Blue Triangle Butterfly
Bug box: Brenthis ino butterfly
Bug box: Bumblebee factoid
Bug box: Butterfly facts
Bug box: Carpentar bees / bear bees (kumabachi)
Bug box: Caterpillar tales
Bug box: Cave cricket
Bug box: Cicada summer
Bug box: Empty cicada case
Bug box: Common ringlet
BUG BOX: Falling-letter weevil
Bug box: Firefly breeding center in Tokyo
Bug box: Firefly Fantasy Lights, Firefly Tales and other Bug Tales
Bug box: First bugs of the year – Aphids
Bug box: Hatched & Unidentified!!
Bug box: Heart-mark stinkbug story
Bug box: How to attract lady bugs naturally; & other facts
Bug box: How to tell a hoverfly from a honeybee
Bug box: Hummingbird hawk moth
Bug box: Hunting and keeping stag-beetles
Bug box: Incy wincy spider
Bug box: Japanese beetles
Bug box: Japanese beetles / popillia japonica
Bug box: Ladybird, ladybird fly away home
Bug box: Ladybugs – One of the good bugs
Bug box: Leaf chafers & dung beetles
Bug box: Leaf-cutter bees
Bug box: Leaf-eating ladybird
Bug Box: Little Red Damselfly
Bug box: Longhorn beetle / kiposhi kamikiri-mushi
Bug box: Marvelous moths of Japan
Bug box: Monarch butterfly
Bug box: Orb spiders
Bug Box: Pointing out Poo Spiders
Bug box: Poking around pillbugs (dangomushi)
Bug box: Pond skaters
Bug box: Praying mantis makes nest
Bug box: Predator & prey stories
Bug box: Rice paper butterfly / oogomadara
Bug box: Rose beetles
Bug box: Samurai butterfly
Bug box: Scary Scolopendrid
Bug box: Shrunken Shijimi Butterfly
Bug box: Silkworm story
Bug box: Singing crickets & cricket culture
Bug box: Stingers – paper wasps & giant hornet killers
Bug box: The “Scythe sword” praying mantis
Bug box: The active life of an ant
Bug box: Through the eyes of a spider
Bug box: unidentified beetles
Bug box: Wasp spider
Bug box: Water scorpions
Bug box: Why are grasshoppers green?
Bug box: Yellow dragonfly & dragonfly facts
Bug box: Yellow jacket
FISHES: Common catfish
Fishy tales: White Cloud Mountain minnows
Japan’s mammalian riches
Nara’s cute destructive deer
NATURE IN SHORT / Explaining a gap in insect consciousness
Poisonous snakes – adders and vipers of Japan
Rabbits or hares? The differences between 2 springtime animals
Snakes in our woods
Spotlight on Sika (Shika) deer
WILD WATCH Relics of Ice Age Japan
BIRDING BOX
A welcome guide to your neighborhood birds by Daily Yomiuri nature-writer Kevin Short
Bean goose and Swans of Sarobetsu
BIRDING BOX: “Devil birds” Japanese woodpeckers
BIRDING BOX: Birds of Hokkaido (Various types of Tits, Blakiston Fish-Owl, Eurasian Nuthatch)
BIRDING BOX: Japanese crested ibis (Toki)
Black-faced spoonbill
COLLARED SCOPS OWL
Collared Scops Owl
Cormorants
Cute little kingfishers brighten up Japanese ponds
Greenshank
Japanese rock ptarmigan
Japanese White-eye(メジロmejiro)
Leiothrix – a relative newcomer to the forests of Japan
Magpie
Magpie
Northern lapwing
Nuthatch
Pacific reef egret
Teal
Tree sparrow
Visit the Osaka Nanko Bird Sanctuary
SECRETS OF THE SEA AND SEASHORES AROUND JAPAN
A plague of giant jellyfish expected in 2009
Akahire / White Cloud Mountain minnows
Flying squid tracked 600 km east of Tokyo
Giant isopods at the Toba Aquarium, Mie Prefecture
Hundreds of crown-of-thorns starving starfish found on a beach in southern
Nomura jellyfish (Echizen kurage)
Sea lilies found 9,000 meters down in Izu-Ogasawara trench
The importance of the sea
Goose Barnacle
THE WEATHER FACTOR
Seas around Japan were warmer 6000 years ago
Temperature differences spawned deadly tornado
What is “Kosa” or yellow sand?
Rise in clam-gobbling rays in Japanese waters due to global warming
Plant paradise: Kurume tsutsuji
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