Plantation Activity

List of Plantation Trees

Kiri(Paulownia tree)

Paulownia tree is officially named paulownia yomentosa and it is accustomed to plant this tree when baby girl was born in Japan. People may have been believed that by planting the trees which grow very fast than other general trees and in future paulownia tree could be used for making drawers upon wedding. This tree will have the largest single leaf in Japan and its beautiful flowers similar to wisteria tree with the purple color will blossom in May. It is the deciduous broad leaved tree and its floral language is "sophisticated/or lofty".

Himeyuzuriha(Daphniphyllum teijsmannii)

Evergreen High tree in Daphniphyllum Macropodum, seed is black purple color fruit like a blueberry, flavor and/or taste is completely different from blueberry. Birds may take as a food supply and drops for vegetation.

Akinire(Ulmus parvifolia)

Decidudus High tree in Elm, called winged seed and looks wing like fashion. Tree may change color same as leaves, looks like falling-leaves and wind may help inspersion.

April 25, 2017

GOLD GYM’S

We've got a picture from Gold Gyms for the tree we planted. The paulownia tree that we planted at Gold Gym had grown up very large.
It was a small seedling when we planted, but now it is attracting peoples, many people stopped in front of this paulownia tree and now it has become a splendid tree of people who take pictures.
We feel so appreciative for the people of Gold GYM for their support of the tree and assisting the tree's growth. Wishing that same support will continue from now on.

October 13, 2011

Gold Gym’s

Asami-san of Gold Gyms has reported us that tip portion of Kiri(Paulownia tree) damaged due to the Typhoon hitting East Japan the other day. We paid a visit and found that some of the tip portion of Kiri tree, grown up well have damaged. However, damage itself was nothing so serious and we, with Asami-san prayed that there will be fresh tops from the damaged points in next year. It was apparent the trunk of trees have grown up and wide. On the other hand, Ubamegashi’s growth looked rather slow, however we’ve confirmed that roots of the tree were firm enough. Jinchouge(Daphne odora Daphne) have scattered its typical flavor during Spring season, and during the Autumn, Kinnmokusei(Orange osmanthus)have created its fragrance with every leaves. The place of those plant of trees of Gold Gym’s is where everybody can enjoy the seasonal flavor during year round. See pictures:

May 31, 2011

Gold Gym's

We’ve received a report that blossoming of Jinchouge(Daphne Odora) and Kiri(Paulownia tree) were seen during the month of April. Jinchouge was always giving and sweet flower smell in the past years but Kiri tree made finally blossoming this year. It is far to imagine that it grew very tall tree from which we placed very small nursery pod. We are so pleased and feel comfort seeing such growth and we wish to thank Asami-san of Gold Gym’s for the care of plants. We saw lots of new growth of leaves. Also, we found Ubamegashi (Quercus Phillyraeoides) with its strong growth. Large green leaves of Kiri Tree will surely make leafy shade this year. See pictures:

Futaba Hoiku-en/baby home

After visiting the Futaba Hoiku-en/Baby home, we are pleased to see that the hand made wood-bench were often used by the children and familiarized for the use. The blossoming of Satsuki(Rhododendron Indicum) are bit late due to the time difference of sunshine compared with other areas. However, we found many flower bud so it will be soon with lot of flowers. On the other hand, the blossoming of Tosamizuki(Corylopsis Spicate) were just over. Instead, there were many fresh leaves and it will be a full of green leaves during the summer season. We may visit to conduct leave pruning after summer. See pictures:

December 5, 2010

Futaba Hoiku-en/Baby home-Maintenance care of the hand-made wooden bench:

We have made wooden bench using the forest thinning from the Chiba Pref. production for the children at Futaba-en. We placed the hand-made round-wood bench during the month of October, we found that prickles from the wood later on. And therefore, we have taken the bark and filed all over the bench. Renewed bench looked so nice and there will be no hurts to anyone. Thanks to Hitoshi-san for his cooperation. See pictures:

Tosamizuki-Corylopsis Spicata and Satsuki-Rhododendron Indicum trees at the garden of Futaba Hoiku-en/Baby home are growing healthy. See pictures:

November 29, 2010

Gold Gym's:

Most of green color leaves which were so vivid during the last time visit, summer season, now looked to be changing the color a bit to yellow preparing for the winter season. Big surprise of the rapid growth of the Kiri tree in the past one year! With Asami-san of Gold Gym who usually taking care of the tree, we anticipate its growth next year. Ubamegashi-Quercus Phillyraeoides and Jinchouge -Daphne Odora trees are also growing as expected. See pictures:

October 5, 2010

Futaba Hoiku-En/Baby home:

On this day, we have hand-made and produced wooden bench with the forest thinning-Hinoki cypress and bamboo trees of Chiba Pref. and presented to the children of Futaba-Hoiku-en/Baby home. We have also produced the small bird house near to the bench. We wish that children at Futaba Hoiku-en can feel the kind of natural elements with the hand-made wooden bench and if the birds come, it will be so lucky, the taste of small forest!!! Mr. Horiguch has brought lot of Donguri-acorn and sweet chestnuts and children at the home seemed so enjoyable by actually hand feelings. See pictures:

July 13, 2010

Futaba Hoiku-en/Baby home:

At this visit of observation, we conducted the pruning of Tosamizuki-Corylopsis Spicata mainly. Garden of Futaba Hoiku-en is arranged with variety of trees, many kind and, it is rare to see wild mountain grape trees with plenty of berries. Tosamizuki-Corylopsis Spicata have fully grown with lots of greens. Pruning is done to looking forward for the floral buds next year. We must say our appreciation to Kiumi-san for her time as a volunteer to look care of the trees.

July 8, 2010

Gold Gym's

Summer has come and hot temperature continued, all trees are needed to have sufficient water spraying. It was a big surprise to look at the growth of Kiri tree. Two years has past but the top of Kiri tree is over the electric cable and yet they are making leafy shade even such high temperature. Most of these leaves will fall down due Kiri tree is deciduous tree. We will see and anticipate that there will be healthy and will be lot of leaves next year. We want to express our thanks to Mr. Asami for taking care of the trees.

April 27, 2009-Clean up the garden of:

After Sakura Cherry has gone, the garden were covered with full of Azalea blooming, lots of green leaves making freshness lives from the rainfalls, warm temperature, etc. and thus we found lot of weeds. It took full 3 hours to clean up the Hoiku-En garden. We found insects and worms too.

Futaba Hoiku-En/Baby home:

-Tosamizuki(Corylopsis Spicate)- flowers have gone and leaves looked very healthy.

-Satsuki(Rhododendron Indicum)- Rhododendron Indicum trees-blossoming of Satsuki trees will take more weeks, 3 out of 5 Satsuki trees were healthy but other 2 were not, we don’t know the real reason but maybe 2 will be moved to a place with more sun shine.

Gold Gym's:

-Kiri(Paulownia tree)- we observed 7 fresh leaves in the previous visit and reported. This time, we found roughly 30 leaves and tree looked very healthy. We anticipate leaves will grow bigger in next month visit.

-Jinchouge(Daphne Odora)- flowers have gone and we found new green leaves which looked okay.

-Ubamegashi(Quercus Phillyraeoides)- all trees grown up very high than, same as Jinchouge(Daphne Odora), all trees had lot of green leaves. We could not find any destructive insects.

March 29, 2009

Spring has come to those nursery trees which we planted.

February 23, 2009

We did the observation visit, the first time this year. All plants seemed changing their looking similar to what human being change clothing summer versus winter. We saw lots of greens in trees of evergreen species which made changes.

Futaba Hoiku-En/Baby home:

Tosamizuki(Corylopsis Spicate)-Roots of the trees were firmly settled the land and we found lot of blossom buds on branch.

Satsuki(Rhododendron Indicum)-3 out of 5 were dried up although we have not worried much-see pictures. For our future study of such plantation, we have forwarded the pictures to Tan-san of Minatoya Engei asking for the professional idea why it happened. She informed us it was maybe 1)damage from the pest, 2) lack of water supply. We will try to investigate the soil condition and other elements surrounding the place during the next visit.

Gold Gym's:

Jinchouge(Daphne Odora)-We found 3 healthy blossom buds with strong pink color. They may produce pleasing spring flavor soon.

Ubamegashi(Quercus Phillyraeoides)-They looked rather weak due to the winter temperature compared to summer seasons, however they showed steady grow. The tree is so strong and very hard, it will be a bincho charcoal timber, the growth rate is very slow. We anticipate the fresh tops according to the sunshine of spring seasons.

Kiri(Paulownia tree)-It is very difficult for this tree to have a growth in other places. Only one here steps agrowth. During the winter seasons, all leaves are falling as if it dried up. But it will be okay because branch keeps greens and they will show fresh tops in spring time.

June 2, 2008

We paid a visit to the places where we planted the trees. With lot of excitement and expectation in mind, wishing for nursery trees strong growth and firmly roots have expanded to the deep underground. It was about 2 months have past since the plantations taken place.

Futaba Hoiku-en/Baby home:

We were glad to see flowers blossoms in each 5 Satsuki(Rhododendron Indicum) trees, and Tosamizuki(Corylopsis Spicate) have drastically grew and with many leaves. However, Kiri(Paulownia) trees were nothing healthy and leaves were falling, we think we have to repeat planting Kiri(Paulownia) trees.

Gold Gym's:

Due to the strong summer sun shine, most leaves of Jinchouge(Daphne Odora) trees were suffered and color of leaves turned to yellow yet basically trees were seemed all okay. We found lot of aphid in the Ubamegashi(Quercus Phillyraeoides) trees at the last time visit, however this time we could not find aphid. To make trees healthy and for the vital effect, we atomized natural wood acid to continue to grow. Kiri(Paulownia) trees looked good condition and with more leaves.

Plantation vol.01

April 14, 2008, we've conducted the tree plantation event at Futaba Hoiku-en, Social Welfare Corporation and at the Think Company's, main operating company for Gold's Gym, land space.

On this day, it was a rain in the morning however it helped to loosen the soil and we thought the plantation condition for the nursery plants became perfect. Children at the Futaba Hoiku-en had welcomed us and everybody's eyes were so blight and interestingly seeking to what we are planting. We have planted total of 7 nursery trees such as Paulownia tree, Tosa Mizuki(Corylopsis Spicata) and Satsuki(Rhododendron Indicum) at this place.

We want to express our special thanks to Yamaichi-san and Yanagi-san from R's Associate, and Ninomiya-san who is an acting volunteer at this facility.

Plantation vol.02

May 10, 2008, we've conducted the tree plantation in the one special area within Hiroo Region with the cooperation of Horiguchi-san who is a member of Flowers & Green Association. Total 5 nursery Paulownia trees have settled the place adjoining to various plants, anticipating the large single leaf with purple colored flower in the future.

Special Thanks to…

All people donated the funds.

All people donated the funds.
Eiji Kawai of Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute.
Keiko Tan of Minatoya Engei
All of Futaba Hoiku-en, Social Welfare Corporation .
All of THINK Company Ltd. Owner of Gold's Gym.
Akira Yamaichi, Kyouai Yanagi, Yuka Nakao of R‘s associate
Yoko Ninomiya
Takaharu Horiguchi of Flowers & Green Association.