<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Here's a picture of some mountain flowers (the tiny pink ones) on Kusatsu-shirane, near Kusatsu. They look natural, but they were all planted and maintained as a tourist attraction. They were not native to the area. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/javbw/11094084766/">https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/javbw/11094084766/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The picture I took is not so good to show the large fields of them, but even though the flowers appear to be in a natural setting, these were planted for the express purpose of tourism - visitors to the sulphur crater lakes by car/ropeway would have something else pretty to see on a nearby hiking loop where there is also a good view. There were a hundred pro photographers there on the day I visited (with my photo club), all to see the blooming pink flowers. </div><div><br></div><div>Tsukuba is a popular tourist destination (via Ropeway) and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that a small patch of flowers has been tended to and artificially expanded to be a tourist attraction. </div><div><br></div><div>They always need something pretty for the tourist guide pamphlets! ^^</div><div><br></div><div>There is a flower park on the east side of Tsukuba that also needs some flower tags. </div><div><br></div><div><div>フラワーパーク</div><div><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/vKTAJ9x5VSF2">https://goo.gl/maps/vKTAJ9x5VSF2</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>These are other cases of places I have visited & mapped where I would like to tag the cultivated flowers as some sort of flowerbed or maintained flower field.</div><div><br><div>Javbw</div></div><div><br>On Nov 4, 2015, at 10:47 PM, tomoya muramoto <<a href="mailto:muramototomoya@gmail.com">muramototomoya@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">For Mizubasho, most famous field is Oze swamp(but sorry I have never been there) due to a famous japanese fork song, you know.<br>I remember natural Katakuri flower field at the top of Mt. Tsukuba. They say there are 30 thousand Katakuri flowers in 20,000 m2 area (<a href="http://www.ttca.jp/?p=1552">http://www.ttca.jp/?p=1552</a>), they are on the forest floor as you said.<br>Actually I don't know they are *natural*, but they say so.<br><br>Maybe you can check a list of Natural monuments designated by Japanese government.<br><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A4%8D%E7%89%A9%E5%A4%A9%E7%84%B6%E8%A8%98%E5%BF%B5%E7%89%A9%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7#.E8.A2.AB.E5.AD.90.E6.A4.8D.E7.89.A9.E3.83.BB.E5.8D.98.E5.AD.90.E8.91.89.E9.A1.9E">https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A4%8D%E7%89%A9%E5%A4%A9%E7%84%B6%E8%A8%98%E5%BF%B5%E7%89%A9%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7#.E8.A2.AB.E5.AD.90.E6.A4.8D.E7.89.A9.E3.83.BB.E5.8D.98.E5.AD.90.E8.91.89.E9.A1.9E</a> (sorry it is written in Japanese)<br><br>muramoto<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-04 21:47 GMT+09:00 johnw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class=""><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 4, 2015, at 8:52 PM, tomoya muramoto <<a href="mailto:muramototomoya@gmail.com" target="_blank">muramototomoya@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">to a flower field grown naturally (not planted by man). Is it appropriate?</span></div></blockquote></div><br></span><div>AFAIK that a natural open area of grasses is natural=grassland. </div><div>If it is a bit taller stuff, possibly natural=scrub ( like the 1m tall green plants growing along roads in Japan, for example. </div><div><br></div><div>If it is a field of crops or stuff, like grasses or hay or something, it is a landuse=meadow. </div><div><br></div><div>Do those flowers grow in such quantity to make a mappable *natural* field? of all that one kind of flowers?</div><div><br></div><div>the Mizubasho looks like it grows when cultivated in a swamp or something (per google image search). </div><div><br></div><div>I have seen a few growing naturally on Mt Akagi (I think), in streams/places with water. </div><div><br></div><div>Where are you trying to map them? I’d love to visit a place with big fields of them growing naturally!</div><div><br></div><div>most of the flowers shown here on this page ( I randomly found ) are in fields that seems to be very man-managed, or possibly fallow farm fields. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/kisono3/colony/colony-e.htm" target="_blank">http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/kisono3/colony/colony-e.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>But some of these would be the flower field tag we are discussing. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>some of the flowers growing naturally seem to be forest floor coverings.</div><div><a href="http://previews.123rf.com/images/whitetag/whitetag1310/whitetag131085326/23683697-clumps-of-katakuri.jpg" target="_blank">http://previews.123rf.com/images/whitetag/whitetag1310/whitetag131085326/23683697-clumps-of-katakuri.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>I have no idea how to tag stuff on the forest or wood floor, which some of these natural groups seem to be. </div><div><br></div><div>Javbw</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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