Now, Japanese iris (Hanashobu, Iris ensata var. ensata) is now flowering in many gardens.
Webmaster visited Sagamihara Park (Sagamihara-koen) this week which has an iris garden.
Access: Tokyo (local train 0:14) Shinjuku (local train 0:32) Sagami-ono (bus 0:20) Sagamiharakoen-mae @
When Webmaster visited the garden in April, iris was still small.
But, now it is fully flowering.
Japanese iris (Hanashobu) is a horticulture variety developed from wild iris (Nohanashobu, I. ensata var. Spontanea). Original color of the flower was purple but now it has various colors.
People enjoyed the flowers strolling in the garden.
An eastern spot-billed duck (Karugamo, Anas zonorhyncha) with four chicks in an adjacent pond. Basically, ducks are winter birds in Japan, but some of spot-billed duck remain in summer and breed in Japan.
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