Hamanako Garden Park (3) - Art Museum of Flowers

After enjoying International Garden, I crossed a bridge to the other side of the waterway. In the most remote part of the park, there is Art Museum of Flowers. It was called Monet’s Garden with permission from France in the event in 2004, because the area has a reproduced house and gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, France. It is a must-see spot at this time of year, and I came to the park mainly because of this. Claude Monet is an impressionist painter famous for his paintings of water lilies. I think many people have seen his paintings somewhere.

This is the house. It is beautiful with a pink wall and green window frames, but it looked more beautiful with roses.

Art Museum of Flowers has two gardens, a flower garden and a water garden. The water garden looked natural with lush greenery around a big pond. There were waterlilies here and there.

I had thought that waterlilies were white, but there were also other colors. This one is pink, and the yellow flowers are irises.

In contrast with the quiet water garden, the flower garden was crowded with people. As it was the best season, many people were taking pictures like me. You could pass through this path with flower arches from May 10 to 19 only.

These purple flowers that looked like onion heads were seen in many places in the garden. They were beautiful, but I didn’t know the name of them. Later, I searched on the internet and learned that they are called giant onion or Allium giganteum.

This bush of roses looked gorgeous.

These are lilies and roses of the same color.

The mixture of different flowers and colors was pleasant to see.

But the mixture of cool colors was also beautiful.

Blue flowers were eye-catching.

Some flowers showed a strong contrast.

And even leaves sometimes looked very bright with sunlight.

The garden was full of life. I had a very good time there.