Cherry
blossom in two London Parks/Carlos Pueblo
Arriving
Heathrow Airport late on Thursday night, 05/05/2016, I was very relax
to have a
Tube ride to my hostel at Bayswater on the skirt of Hyde Park. I went to
visit Kensington
Park next morning very early. I was attracted by the beautiful
spring flowers
for the entire day. I had inspected the Queen Victoria Garden, some
small garden
in front of the police head quarter, and almost every blooming cherry
tree.
The garden
is in the front of Kensington Palace, the Queen’s birth place, her white
statue is up
to the front. Varies colors of turnip flower with stems shooting up, the
gardeners
place several rolls of flowers among them. It is indeed a Royal Garden
with top
class flowers arrangement. I walked toward the golden Prince Albert Statue,
the Queen’s
husband. Pretty red camellia, magnolia flowers in pink and white spread
along the
pedestrian path, I found a scarlet red cherry blossom. Before this European
trip, I just
came back from my annual visit of cherry blossom festival in Washington D.C.
I noticed
the tree was similar to the red one nearby Jefferson Memorial facing Tidal
Basin. I
walked toward a gardener who was doing some yard work about the name of
the cherry
flower, he said that he had no idea yet he pointed on the direction with more
cherry
blossom.
I could
identify Kwanzan, Akebono, Fugenzo, Shirofugen, and a red one which I lost my
memory. Kwanzan
and Fugenzo are complex pedals red turn pink; Shirofugen is white
Fugenzo
while Akebono has red bulb and turn to pink then white. The most famous
Somei
Yoshino cherry blossom were gone yet I did see them on my first visit of the
Park a couple
years ago.
I walked
along a river, it was a lake, inspecting each flowering cherry tree. White
Swans,
ducks, sea gull, pigeons, and birds of all kinds etc. was flying up and down. I
was
again taking
a nap until a friendly boxer woke me up. I continued walking enjoy the
beautiful
spring and I passed by a small garden with turnips at a significant yet small
police
headquarter.
Yamada
Haruhiko from Tokyo came to have dinner with me that night. I got to know
him on this
hostel last year and had had a dinner in Tokyo early this year. We have
become a good
friend. He was on his annual European trip at the time. We had
Cantonese
roast duck and beer.
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