Wild rosemary instead of cherry blossom
Pink clusters against moss and stone — “as if a piece of the sakura had been carried here from Japan”.
“A delicate wonder has happened in our park. The wild rosemary has come into exquisite pink flower.”
“These pink clusters against the moss and the stones create exactly the wabi-sabi mood: a fleeting beauty that reminds us how fragile and how precious the moment is.”
Does wild rosemary grow in Japan? “What we in the Russian Far East are used to calling ‘bagulnik’ more often belongs in Japan to the genus Rhododendron. True wild rosemary (Rhododendron tomentosum) does occur in the wild in Japan — on Hokkaido, for instance, where the climate is close to ours.”
“For me wild rosemary is a bridge between two cultures.”
- Who took part
- Alla Lesheva
- Tags
- Wabi-sabi · Spring · Plants
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