May 9, 2008

princessesdiaries

“G邸ガーデンには真ん中にシンボルツリーを植えよう”という計画が何年か前からあります

緑色の芝生の上、庭の真ん中のシンボルツリーの下でお昼寝をするのが憧れなのです

クマ殿ともどんな木を植えようか相談中

先日、素敵な木を発見

佐野プレミアムアウトレットの中の一本

カタチが素敵ではありませんか

 

これはなんの木なのでしょうね

楓なのでしょうか

家の西側にはブラックベリーを植えて

 

 

 

nice! nice ! 0

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  • susan

    paradise1az@cox.net
    beautiful tree--

    now I need the story behind it!

    xxxx

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  • Princess_Foxy

    The tree
    I found this tree in the outletmall about 15 away by car from our apartment.
    I often go there to shop.

    I like the shape of tree and leaves a lot.
    I would like to put the same tree in our garden area. Maybe in the middle of the garden as a memorial tree.

    Our builder saids this tree is a kind of maple.
    Not native to Japan.
    Leaves will turn red in fall.

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  • susan

    paradise1az@cox.net
    why is it called a symbol tree?

    xxx

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  • KC-Fresno, Ca.

    caldwell7@comcast.net
    In our area these trees are called Japanese Maple's, and are quite beautiful especially when the leaves turn red in the fall. They are quite an expensive tree here, and the landscapers love to include them in their garden or lawn designs. What a lovely choice you made and you will get many many years of enjoyment out of it.

    Are you putting in more than one of these in your landscaping design??

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  • Kumano Kuma

    About the maple tree...
    Hi Karen!

    Actually, to clarify, the tree we are to get is a North American Maple, not an Ornamental (aka Japanese) Maple.

    The one made famous by the Canadian Flag.

    The actual colors it turns are yellow and red, not the deep red I believe you were thinking of.

    It has the advantage of being a mostly upright tree, with a good span as it gains height. The Ornamental Maples grow lower, and have rather smaller leaves.

    It will be the centerpiece of our garden area, so the design calls for only one to be planted.

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  • Kumano Kuma

    Unknown
    I am told that the terms "symbol tree" or "memorial tree" come from mis-adoptions of the english words into Japanese. The idea was that a tree planted in a (modern) garden is put there to symbolize something, or memorialize something.

    In practice, this doesn't apply very often in private gardens.

    A better way to say what we are doing is to term the tree as "the centerpiece of the garden" design-wise.

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  • Kumano Kuma

    not unknown
    the title of the previous was to have been:

    "why is it called a symbol tree?"

    ...seems this system doesn't like quotation marks in titles.
    ((growl))

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