The best season of cherry blossoms has gone at the end of spring.
Around tea plantations, other elegant flowers start blooming.
Their purple color delight us, with telling us the summer beginning.

On the Makinohara upland, we can look purple colored flowers around tea plantation.
They are Japanese wisteria, called as “Fuji” in Japanese.

The other purple flower, Japanese iris so-called “Shobu”, also delights our eyes.

The purple color has been recognized as a noble color in the past in Japan. (The explanation in this web page is accessible)
In the Asuka period, the color of purple called as “Murasaki” was the noblest color in Twelve Level Cap and Rank System.
On the other hand, in Edo era, purple is popular to people.

Looking closer the land around tea plantation would provide us a variety of purple flowers in the season from spring to early summer.

Henbit next to tea plants. In Japan, henbit is called as “Hotokenoza”, known as one of the 7 representative herbs in spring, so-called “Haruno Nana Kusa”.

What a nice indigo purple these lantern-shaped small flowers are!!

It’s like the noble and popular purple flowers bless subtle teas
I hope you will enjoy purple colors around tea plantation in Shizuoka.