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Nash Conservatory, 1 of 2 pavilions designed by John Nash for the Buckingham Palace gardens. This one moved to Kew by William lV in 1836
While we were in Florida a few weeks ago, we took one morning to visit Naples Botanical Garden. It was so nice to see so much lush foliage and such beautiful color, especially since the garden back home was still covered in a blanket of snow. I'm always amazed by the brightness of the foliage and flowers of tropical plants, we don't often get such saturated color in our northern gardens. I'm sure they would look out of the place though, somehow these colors need heat to look at home!
Botanical Beach is suppose to be famous for its intertidal life. When I visited this beach at the end of the Juan de Fuca trail I found many areas of the beach devoid of sea life indicating high visitor use.
When people talk about how we need to manage resources they are missing the point. Resources keep us alive but the reason we need to manage them is because we don't know how to manage ourselves. We need to shift our perspective when it comes to taking what we need from the earth.
Japanese Festival of Children's Day
Council together with the Friends of the Botanic Garden and the Coffs Harbour Australia-Japan Society are organising the second Japanese Festival of Children's Day (a family fun day) at the Japanese sectionof the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden in Coffs Harbour on Sunday 4 May 2008.
The festival celebrates not only the Japanese festival but also Coffs Harbour's sister city relationship with Sasebo, Japan.
The inaugural event last year was a great success and won a national award in the single project category of the 2007 Australian Sister Cities Association National Awards for being 'a most outstanding and imaginative project that furthers the development of the local sister cities program in the community'. It was then decided to turn this into an annual event for Coffs Harbour.
Details of the event:
Sunday 4 May 2008
10.30am to about 3.00pm
Japanese section of the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, Coffs Harbour
Free entry (gold coin donation to the Botanic Garden welcomed)
The event will include:
music
entertainment
flying of the koi-nobori flags (see below)
kite making and flying
fun and games for the whole family
BYO picnic
stalls selling sushi, coffee, fairyfloss, toys, games, books
All children and their parents are invited to come along bring a BYO picnic (no alcohol) and join in with the activities throughout the day including traditional Japanese games- story telling - kite and origami making.
Prizes will be given for kite making and flying competitions and there will be a raffle run by the Australian - Japan Society Coffs Harbour.
Council has again made arrangements to fly the koi-nobori (Japanese carp flags/fish kites) on the day (see below).
The 2007 festival
Children and their parents came along to the 2007 festival in droves - in fact, more than 700 people were counted coming through the Botanic Garden gates on the day. There were games and activities throughout the day, including kite-flying, kite-making, storytelling, Japanese drummers, traditional dancing, traditional Japanese games, and much more. See photos at the bottom of this page for an impression.
Council made arrangements to fly up to 80 koi-nobori (Japanese carp flags/fish kites) at the Japan section in the Botanic Garden that day, having used funding from the Arts & Cultural Development budget to erect the infrastructure needed to fly the kites.
Coffs Harbour's koi-nobori flags
The Koi-nobori were presented to Council in 2005 by its sister city Sasebo, Japan, to enable the people of Coffs Harbour to understand the cultural significance of the "Boys Day Festival". "Boys Day" has recently been renamed in Japan as 'kodomo-no-hi' to include all children, boys and girls, in the festival.
The festival in 2007 was the first time the koi-nobori have been mass flown in Coffs Harbour.
About the Japanese Festival of Children's Day (kodomo-no-hi) and koi-nobori (carp flags)
The Japanese Festival of Children's Day is a national holiday in Japan, which generally falls in May. The holiday apparently comes from an ancient Chinese story about carp, which swam up a waterfall and turned into dragons. The carp, or koi in Japanese, became symbols of perseverance.
The Japanese version tells of the koi swimming up the waterfall, but does not mention the dragons. Families fly giant carp windsocks - koinobori - from flagpoles next to the house for some weeks before and after the festival.
Boys Day became an official holiday in the Edo Period and was set on 5 May, while Girls Day was set on 3 March. After World War II Boys Day was changed to the Japanese Festival of Children's Day (kodomo-no-hi) to remove the stress on military training for boys. Now, many families fly a koinobori for each member of the family, from the father down to the youngest son, but not for the daughters. Families fly the koinobori and fukinagashi in hopes that their children will be strong and healthy and to inspire the children to persevere.
Further Information
For more information on the Japanese Festival of Children's Day, contact Malcolm McLeod at Council on 6648 4840.
I am DISTROUGHT Spent hours getting hundreds of photos this day So many beautiful Irises of which I had saved a a few for flickr. I needed a new DVD drive and left my pc clinic for new dvd drive and guess what this original folder and lots more folders have been deleted by them unrequested action. Need less to say I have requested they recover all folders deleted on that day. Say a prayer Will know on Saturday coming.
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A collection of tiny bits of leaves, berries and other botanical items scattered across a grey background.
I used flash with a slow shutter speed. The flash lit the little girl on her father's shoulders, I then moved the camera while the shutter was still open to create the light trails
Often, the process of making something happens in stages. Component parts are created and combined into larger, more complex pieces of art. We've been making botanical components for a while now, with the intention of a larger finished piece that uses many of these objects. Here are recent additions to the components drawer.