The Garden of 100 Flowers

Hamanako Garden Park's Garden of 100 Flowers contains thousands of plant varieties organized into themed sections: flowering annuals, ferns, conifers, succulents, bamboo grasses, fruit trees, and climbing plants, among others. One of the most unusual specimens is a Wollemi pine, a species known only from fossils until living trees were discovered by accident in New South Wales in 1994. Fewer than 100 wild trees are known to exist. The Wollemi responds well to propagation, and the park received one of the cloned specimens. A long meandering path connects the sections, making it a good choice for a calm morning walk through an unusually diverse botanical collection.