The chrysanthemum and the sword; patterns of Japanese culture by Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948. Publication date 1946 Topics Volkskarakter, Japanners, Cultuur, Japonais Publisher Boston, Houghton Mifflin ...

When the world seems bleak, I peruse gardening flyers and marketing emails and fantasize about fields of daffodils.

This Shandong city produces 80 per cent of China’s peony paintings. A visitor at the Caozhou Peony Garden on April 9, 2025. ST PHOTO: JOYCE ZK LIM. Li Xueying. UPDATED Jun 09, 2025, 11:28 AM.

Chrysanthemums are a symbol of condolence. Western Europe has a strong tradition of putting these flowers on graves and using them as funerary flowers. This is because they are meant to provide ...

The Peony Garden is such an attraction regionally, nationally, and now internationally that we get between 70 and 80,000 people in *** very few weeks. That means we have to bus people in on the ...

The Peony Garden is such an attraction regionally, nationally, and now internationally that we get between 70 and 80,000 people in *** very few weeks. That means we have to bus people in on the ...

The Peony Garden is such an attraction regionally, nationally, and now internationally that we get between 70 and 80,000 people in *** very few weeks. That means we have to bus people in on the ...

It's time to peek at the peak peonies.Visitors are making the annual pilgrimage to the University of Michigan this week to see -- and smell -- one of the world's premier collections of the garden ...

The Peony Garden is such an attraction regionally, nationally, and now internationally that we get between 70 and 80,000 people in *** very few weeks. That means we have to bus people in on the ...