Seven Japanese plants of autumn at UBCBG

Japanese people admire and know flowers more than anywhere else people around the world.

Every garden and many shrines and temples display at this season Seven flowers of autumn what they call aki no nana kusa.
http://through-the-sapphire-sky.blogspot.ca/2011/09/seven-flowers-of-autumn-aki-no-nanakusa.html
http://homepage3.nifty.com/plantsandjapan/page036.html

There are some haiku(some are translated from the Manyoshu) about Seven flowers of autumn

Flowers blossoming
in autumn fields -
when I count them on my fingers
they then number seven.

Bush clover, bellflowers
and also pinks
have sprouted

Ah! the waving lespedeza,
Which spills not a drop
Of the clear dew! (my favourite)

The bush clover I'd always seen
has fallen -
deep autumn


At UBCBG we can enjoy 4 of these very famous plants.
In Alpine garden.

Lespedeza thunbergii,Bush clover or Japanese clover(Hagi in Japanese) and Dianthus longicalyx(Nadeshiko in Japanese)

Near entrance, outside of garden

Miscanthus sinensis,Japanese pampas grass(Susuki) and Platycodon grandiflorus(Kikyou or Asagao)