Ume Blossom@Umegaoka:Feb.18, March 11, 2012

Nearly two months have passed after the midwinter (the winter solstice) day. But we still have chilly days. Temperature goes down sub-zero in the morning in Tokyo. We had snow yesterday.

The ume (plum) blossom usually start in mid-February (See the posts in 2010, 2011). It delayed this year because of cold weather.


I visited Hanegi Park in Umegaoka, one of Tokyo’s famous ume garden. The local community holds Ume festival form Feb. 4 to 26.


Only a few trees (out of about 650 trees) opened flowers.
The sky was blue and the air was clean (probably because of the yesterday’s snow).

I also visited the park on March 11. About 30% of the flowers was open.