Sakura blossomed in the garden of the Museum of Foreign Art. The employees consider this a gift for the tenth anniversary; along with the opening on April 29, 2014, they planted a garden of relict trees. Nearby are Manjuri nuts and Kuril cherries. From a botanical point of view, sakura is a tree of the plum subfamily of the Rosaceae family. A tree with one or several trunks grows up to 2–8, occasionally up to 20 meters. A multi-colored carpet and under the trees and large clearings there are copses. These trees came from Hokkaido. In Japan there is a cult of admiring sakura, and in Yaroslavl, it seems, too. Residents come to the museum garden to see the blooms in person. Sakura symbolizes the fragility of existence, beauty and rebirth. It does not bloom for long, about a week. Plants in Yaroslavl have changed slightly over ten years, the climate in Hokkaido is approximately similar to average Russia, but no one has canceled the frosty Russian winter.
Kristina Tsarevskaya, curator of the Museum of Foreign Art collection:
“Our sakura has already adjusted to living in Yaroslavl, it has adapted a little, if in Japan we see flowers on the plant, and then the leaves bloom, then here, you noticed that both leaves and flowers are already present on the tree. It winters comfortably, and every spring we see it bloom.”
Sergey Shirin:
“The interaction is quite rare, I usually try not to miss it, come here every year when the sakura blossoms, I don’t know any other such beautiful places in the Yaroslavl region where there would be such a tree.”
