Pink Roses
location : Biwako Fragrance Rose Garden at Biwako Otsukan
A rose expert Ken Osanai, who serves as an instructor of Gardening for NHK educational channel and NHK C.C, supervised and renewed this garden in 2015 spring. It has not conventional roses,but also a lot of unique roses named after famous painters,musicians,the Imperial families,and actresses.- e.g.Marc Chagall,Tchaikovsky,Princess Michiko,Henry Fonda..
The fragrant roses are viewable from spring until autumn. In total there are about 150 species roses and 2000 rose bushes in this garden.
This is the place Helen Keller had visited in the past ....
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OTSU, Japan, March 23, Kyodo News :
Cherry tree planted by Helen Keller resuscitated
A cherry tree planted in Japan by U.S. social welfare activist Helen Keller (1880-1968), which died in 1999, has been resuscitated, an arborist who saved the tree said Monday.
A ceremony was held the same day at Biwako Otsukan, a public facility on the edge of Lake Biwa formerly known as Biwako Hotel, to mark the planting of the tree's "grandchild" tree.
Keller planted the tree when she stayed at Biwako Hotel in Shiga Prefecture during her first visit to Japan in 1937. Local people cherished the tree, which was replanted when the hotel was relocated to a different side of the lake in 1998. But the tree, known as "Helen Keller's Cherry" among local people, died the following year.
The resuscitation was possible as Seiichi Takeishi, an arborist and executive of Keihan Gardening Co., grafted the tree, just in case anything happened to it, during the 1998 replanting and preserved the grafted seedling, an act which later came to other people's knowledge.
In 2008, Takeishi planted a cherry tree grown from the seedling at the current Biwako Hotel. The 61-year-old tree surgeon raised another tree from the tree at Biwako Hotel and planted it early this month at Biwako Otsukan, which inherited the building of the original Biwako Hotel where Keller stayed. It means that the original tree planted by the deaf-blind educator now has two "descendant" trees.
"It's good that Helen Keller's cherry survived. I hope the trees grow for dozens of years to come," he said.
==Kyodo
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Pink Roses
location : Biwako Fragrance Rose Garden at Biwako Otsukan
A rose expert Ken Osanai, who serves as an instructor of Gardening for NHK educational channel and NHK C.C, supervised and renewed this garden in 2015 spring. It has not conventional roses,but also a lot of unique roses named after famous painters,musicians,the Imperial families,and actresses.- e.g.Marc Chagall,Tchaikovsky,Princess Michiko,Henry Fonda..
The fragrant roses are viewable from spring until autumn. In total there are about 150 species roses and 2000 rose bushes in this garden.
This is the place Helen Keller had visited in the past ....
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OTSU, Japan, March 23, Kyodo News :
Cherry tree planted by Helen Keller resuscitated
A cherry tree planted in Japan by U.S. social welfare activist Helen Keller (1880-1968), which died in 1999, has been resuscitated, an arborist who saved the tree said Monday.
A ceremony was held the same day at Biwako Otsukan, a public facility on the edge of Lake Biwa formerly known as Biwako Hotel, to mark the planting of the tree's "grandchild" tree.
Keller planted the tree when she stayed at Biwako Hotel in Shiga Prefecture during her first visit to Japan in 1937. Local people cherished the tree, which was replanted when the hotel was relocated to a different side of the lake in 1998. But the tree, known as "Helen Keller's Cherry" among local people, died the following year.
The resuscitation was possible as Seiichi Takeishi, an arborist and executive of Keihan Gardening Co., grafted the tree, just in case anything happened to it, during the 1998 replanting and preserved the grafted seedling, an act which later came to other people's knowledge.
In 2008, Takeishi planted a cherry tree grown from the seedling at the current Biwako Hotel. The 61-year-old tree surgeon raised another tree from the tree at Biwako Hotel and planted it early this month at Biwako Otsukan, which inherited the building of the original Biwako Hotel where Keller stayed. It means that the original tree planted by the deaf-blind educator now has two "descendant" trees.
"It's good that Helen Keller's cherry survived. I hope the trees grow for dozens of years to come," he said.
==Kyodo
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Thank you everyone that's taken time to view,comments
and fav... :) Very much appreciated ..*** ✰
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