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In Ashikaga Flower Park there is a tree called the “Great Wisteria.” The tree is over 150 years old and its three large trellises are spread out to cover over 600 tatami mats or more than 1000 square meters.

A blaze of blooms to send your spirits floating like a butterfly By FIONA MACRAE 10th July 2009. Just a few yards from the noise and fumes of one of the nation's busiest motorways stands an oasis of dazzling natural colour. Twenty acres of grassland have been transformed by an explosion of summer blooms into Britain's biggest and brightest wildflower meadow. Designed to attract butterflies and naturelovers alike, it was created in only 12 weeks and boasts 65 different species of flower from around the world. [Pic in URL] Dazzling: Sunflowers form the centrepiece of the massive wildflower meadow that...

Thursday, 2 May, 2002, 10:54 GMT 11:54 UKNew Kew bloom causes a stink The plant has grown at a rate of 10cm per day The world's biggest and most pungent bloom has burst into flower at London's Kew gardens. The huge crimson-coloured plant - known as Amorphophallus titanium - is said to smell of a mixture of excrement and rotting flesh. Alongside the pungent aroma, the plant also boasts a distinctive look with giant red petals bursting out of a tall, phallic-like stem. The vast A. titanium is currently growing at a rate of 10 centimetres (four inches) per day...