[Tagging] Decorative flower fields? (not as a crop?)

John Willis johnw at mac.com
Wed Nov 4 21:08:28 UTC 2015


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. 

https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/javbw/11094084766/

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. 

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. 

They always need something pretty for the tourist guide pamphlets! ^^

There is a flower park on the east side of Tsukuba that also needs some flower tags. 

フラワーパーク
https://goo.gl/maps/vKTAJ9x5VSF2

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.

Javbw

> On Nov 4, 2015, at 10:47 PM, tomoya muramoto <muramototomoya at gmail.com> wrote:
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> For Mizubasho, most famous field is Oze swamp(but sorry I have never been there) due to a famous japanese fork song, you know.
> 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 (http://www.ttca.jp/?p=1552), they are on the forest floor as you said.
> Actually I don't know they are *natural*, but they say so.
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> Maybe you can check a list of Natural monuments designated by Japanese government.
> 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 (sorry it is written in Japanese)
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> 2015-11-04 21:47 GMT+09:00 johnw <johnw at mac.com>:
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>>> On Nov 4, 2015, at 8:52 PM, tomoya muramoto <muramototomoya at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> to a flower field grown naturally (not planted by man). Is it appropriate?
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>> AFAIK that a natural open area of grasses is natural=grassland. 
>> If it is a bit taller stuff, possibly natural=scrub ( like the 1m tall green plants growing along roads in Japan, for example. 
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>> If it is a field of crops or stuff, like grasses or hay or something, it is a landuse=meadow. 
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>> Do those flowers grow in such quantity to make a mappable *natural* field? of all that one kind of flowers?
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>> the Mizubasho looks like it grows when cultivated in a swamp or something (per google image search).  
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>> I have seen a few growing naturally on Mt Akagi (I think), in streams/places with water.  
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>> Where are you trying to map them? I’d love to visit a place with big fields of them growing naturally!
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>> 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. 
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>> http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/kisono3/colony/colony-e.htm
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>> But some of these would be the flower field tag we are discussing. 
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>> some of the flowers growing naturally seem to be forest floor coverings.
>> http://previews.123rf.com/images/whitetag/whitetag1310/whitetag131085326/23683697-clumps-of-katakuri.jpg
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>> I have no idea how to tag stuff on the forest or wood floor, which some of these natural groups seem to be. 
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>> Javbw
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