The hydrangea on this street is also blooming beautifully this year.
At this time, the Hydrangea Festival is held in various places in Tokyo, and nearby (if not nearby
), the Bunkyo Hydrangea Festival, which is held every year around Shirayama Shrine in Bunkyo-ku (this year, June 11 (Saturday)-19th (Sun)) is famous, but the hydrangea on this street is also gorgeous and I like this tree in Chuo-ku, a pair of willow trees.
There are many kinds of bigleaf hydrangea and Hon Hydrangea, which are beautiful.
Hydrangea seems to change its color depending on the acidity of the planted soil (alkaline, redish, acidic and blueish), and you can also enjoy subtle blue (indigo) changes.
In the first place, the name of hydrangea is said to have changed "Azusaai (Shushin Ai)," which means that indigo flowers gather.
If you forcibly scratch the relationship between Chuo-ku and Hydrangea, you will find yourself.
In the late Edo period, Siebold, who worked to spread Western medicine in Nagasaki, was also a naturalist and gave Hydlandia Otaxa to Hydrangea. It is said that it is derived from the name of "Otaki-san" (Dr. Tomitaro Makino).
His bust was built in Akatsuki Park, partly because Siebold had with Mr. Taki opened a maternity hospital in Tsukiji.
What is planted around the Siebold statue was bigleaf hydrangea, which began to bloom.
By the way, Hydlandia consists of Greek hydro (water) and angelic (container), and seems to be interpreted as "water vessel" and "water turtle".
During the rainy season, the blue, indigo and pink hydrangeas that continue to bloom during that period are refreshing.
