Enchanting 藤 Wisteria

The flowers which take center stage of floral landscape of Japan have been changing from 梅Ume of mid-March and 桜Sakura of early April to 藤Fuji of early May.  Fuji, Wisteria in English, is quite popular for its elegant hanging flowers and its vigorous winding vines. 

Fuji is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family.

Fuji has luscious sweetness and beauty.

Supported by the trellis, tamed, pruned and trimmed to keep good shape regularly,
Fuji enchants us with its exquisite elegance from late April to middle of May.

It's joyful to look at the flowers and bask in the various pastel shades cast by the blossoms.

All your senses are comforted by the dripping flowers, flickering sunshine through the leaves,

sound of buzzing bees and water, and balmy breeze.

As you know, Fuji is a playful and ambitious climber by nature.

There are many wild wisteria in the woods of Kasuga Shrine.

Winding and tangled massive vines make sculptural objet in the grove. 

Fuji has amazing vitality, freely sprawling, twining, and climbing everything which stands still in her path.  

As Fuji lives a long life, some vines have crawled on and on both beneath and on the ground, 

which makes her look like an aged long reptile startlingly.

The long tail lasts to the next tree.

Fuji can be a murderer coiling around fragile trees when left alone.

Nonetheless, I like to see her in nature amazed at her tremendous energy to live.

How high have you climbed?

Fuji adorns a gigantic Camphor Tree.

When Fuji flowers are going to be over, season is changing into early summer.

Below is my favorite mauve-colored Fuji.

Fuji-color in Japanese means mauve in English.

Fuji, she has all the attractive elements of a woman,
beautiful, elegant, vital, and mysterious.

My old post about wisteria, Wisteria and the ancient Fujiwara Clan