Representing Appalachian Spring…

As spring deepens, the plants that brightly illuminated the forest floor in early spring gradually disappear. In their place, the small trees and shrubs within the forest begin to stretch and awaken. Trees such as the serviceberries, redbuds, dogwoods, and various types of azaleas and flowering shrubs… If you look upward at about a 15-degree angle and your view is filled with blossoms, it means the lower vegetation is well-developed and the forest is healthy. This is like the forests along the backbone of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States, where these plants originate.

Here, in a botanical garden, these beautiful landscapes are reinterpreted, reconstructed, and recreated, but in the untouched corners of the Appalachian Mountains, there are even more beautiful, genuine natural scenes that have never been trodden by humans. Although it is an unexplored world, the fact that we can dream of, long for, and imagine it is truly fortunate.

by Sunghee at Azalea Garden, New York Botanical Garden