Spring Flowers

I find it amazing that there seem to be always things flowering in Japan (at least so far).  In the winter, it was the rose bushes, then the ume, followed by sakura, now all sorts of bushes are starting to flower and there are flowers all over the place - very pretty!  We'll start with this nice tulip picture:

I love this picture! It looks like a painting!

Last weekend, I went to Meijo park (by the Nagoya castle) while biking around.  I found that there is a large tulip garden and they were blooming.

 A sea of red:

 There was quite a nice stretch of tulips near the main flower garden building:

 There were also all sorts of flowers planted in the main area by the windmill:

 In the back of the flower building there were more tulips:

 And some other flowers in between:

 Here is a selection:

 Black tulips looks pretty nice:

 Red tulips and small white and yellow flowers:

 Some of the tulips have a crown shape:

 Closeup:

 A lower closeup:

 more closer:

 A lonely flower:

 These tiny black ones were nice too:

Many green bushes throughout the city have new leaves that are red in colour, making them look quite interesting:

 Here is a tree with an interesting shape:

 In the park, just by the water moat that goes around the castle grounds, there were still flowering sakura:

 Closeup:

 small flowers and part of the castle walls:

 Hanging branches:

 In Hisaya-odori, the flowering sakura tree now looks like this:

 There are some nice sakura trees still blooming by OASIS21:

 In Central Park, there were these fish hanging from lines:

 And this beautiful sakura tree:

 Closeup of the flowers:

 This is interesting... it is basically a clock on the ground with flowers inside.  If you watch it closely, you will notice that the red (second) hand is moving.  I assume the others do too :P.

 Another nice sakura in the park:

And finally, I'll leave you with this... maybe a preview of upcoming post since these bushes with these flowers of various colours are all over the campus: