The beautifully blooming cherry blossoms are almost automatically associated with Japan and the unique Japanese gardens.

We surely met these in literary works and films, and the lucky ones in person. Anyone who has walked on a promenade lined up with cherry blossoms in a Japanese garden knows exactly that these plants play a big role in the charm of Japanese gardens.

The beautiful flower in Japanese gardens

Believe it or not, Japan has such a deep-rooted culture and history of cherry blossoms that local weather forecast portals make predictions of the cherry blossom flowering process across the country every year. Just imagine that the flowering of a plant raises its beauty and cultural value to such heights and not its allergenic pollens…

Ancient traditions in Japanese gardens

The Japanese culture also based ancient traditions on cherry blossoming. Hanami is a centuries-old practice in which people drank under blossoming Japanese cherry trees. The custom was originally limited to the elite of the imperial court but soon spread to samurai society and over time, to ordinary people. It has become a widespread tradition for people to hold feasts in the shade of beautiful Japanese cherry trees.

Symbols in Japanese gardens

In Japan, cherry blossoms symbolize clouds as they bloom en masse, in addition to being a metaphor for the transient nature of life. The transience of flowers, the beauty of it, and volatility is often associated with mortality and a graceful and easy acceptance of fate and karma; for this reason, cherry blossoms are popular symbols, they were often used in Japanese art.

During World War II, the cherry blossom was used to motivate the Japanese people, with the symbol of the cherry blossom they tried to ignite the fire of nationality and militarism in the people.