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牡丹花 Peony |
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Perhaps the best place to begin the story of peonies in the garden is in China. Peonies were known in China as far back as perhaps 1000 BCE. It was not however until the seventh century, during the reign of the Emperor Yang (605-617) of the Sui dynasty, that peonies were thought to have been grown as ornamental plants. During the T'ang dynasty that followed (618-906) peonies supposedly became very popular in the imperial gardens and they were put under imperial protection. The best varieties |
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大理花 Dahlia |
China |
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Sakura |
Japan |
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Sakura or "cherry blossom" is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Cherry fruit (known as sakuranbo) comes from a different species of tree. Sakura is also commonly used as a woman's name. Sakura is indigenous to the Himalayas, North Bengal (now Bangladesh) and in east Asia such as China, Japan and Korea. Japan has a wide variety of sakura; more than 305 cultivars can be found there. Many were artificially hybridized or grafted by Japanese horti |
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Chrysanthemum |
China |
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Chrysanthemums were cultivated in China as a flowering herb as far back as the 15th century BC. An ancient Chinese city was named Ju-Xian, meaning "chrysanthemum city". The flower was introduced into Japan probably in the 8th century AD, and the Emperor adopted the flower as his official seal. There is a "Festival of Happiness" in Japan that celebrates the flower. The flower was brought to Europe in the 17th century. Linnaeus named it from the Greek prefix "chrys", which means golden (the col |
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Bamboo |
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Bamboo is a group of woody perennial evergreen plants in the true grass family Poaceae. Some of its members are giants, forming the largest members of the grass family. New shoots of some of the larger species can grow over a meter a day. Bamboo is of high cultural significance in East Asia where they are used extensively in gardens, as a building material, and also as a food source. In Chinese, bamboo is known as Zhu, in Japanese as Take, and Tre in Vietnamese. There are over 1,000 species o |
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Japan ikedana |
Japan |
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All the ikedana style , was start a one straight line, it means the past , now, and future. |
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The Legend of Honey suckle (金銀花） |
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A story passed down a long time ago, a farmer, gave birth to twin daughters, named Jinhua金花 (golden flower), Yinhua 銀花 (Silver flower), They get alone very well, they play together, eat together and sleep in the same room. sixteen years pass by, Jinhua, Yinhua not only love each other and they are inseparable. a lot of the family come to their home for asking marriage. but those sisters don't want be separate , so they decide they will only to be marry with twin |
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杜鵑花 Pink Azaleas |
China |
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The azaleas (scientific name: Rhododendron) , This flower is top ten most see of China. More than 850 kinds worldwide, mainly distributed in Asia, Europe and North America, in China there are more than 530, but the characteristics of species vary widely. Those kind the flowers have several different colors at nuclear. Azaleas usually have five petals, the petals in the middle there are some slightly more than red petals with red dot. Super vitality azaleas, both drought resistant and can resist |
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