TSUSHIMA, Aichi -- The "Owari Tsushima Wisteria Festival" is being held in a park here, where Japanese wisteria flowers are at their best. The 5,000-square-meter wisteria trellis in Tennogawa Park in ...

Few countries have seasonal swings quite so dramatic as Japan’s, where midwinter can be mercilessly cold and midsummer brutally hot. Getting from one extreme to the other, means, of course, that Japan ...

WHEN THE buckeyes and maples announce the change of season and begin to shed their multi-colored leaves, my garden thoughts revolve around pruning my trees, shrubs and perennials.? At the top of my ...

The trees stand on a 3,000-square-meter wisteria trellis at Susanoo Shrine, where many other plants are also in bloom. Last year, the annual “Yame Kurogi Wisteria Festival” to celebrate the burst of ...

What’s a native vine that can cover a trellis or fence with June flowers the purply-blue color of a country sky just before dawn? Wisteria, that’s what. Specifically, it’s American wisteria (Wisteria ...

Akira Iwabuchi's work at the Tokyo Origami Museum, "Under the full-blown wisteria trellis of cranes!!," features small origami cranes displayed in such a way to resemble a wisteria trellis and grass.