The generally humid, temperate climate exhibits marked seasonal variation such as the blooming of the spring cherry blossoms, the calls of the summer cicada and fall foliage colors that are celebrated in art and literature

In Japan, cherry blossoms also symbolize clouds due to their nature of blooming, besides being an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life, an aspect of Japanese cultural tradition that is often associated with Buddhistic influence, and which is embodied in the concept of mono no aware.

Philadelphia's cherry blossoms are located within Fairmount Park, and the annual Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia celebrates the blooming trees.

** Riverbank Park ( 宮川堤公園 miya-gawa tsutsumi kōen ): A famous cherry blossom viewing area, making it a very popular destination during the prime blooming season which is in early April.

* Cherry Blossom Festival is held during cherry blossom blooming season on the Miya River ( near the Watarai Bridge ).

The grand avenue leading towards the palace is still clearly recognizable, with cherry trees blooming in spring.

Those cherry trees usually are blooming in mid-May.

The garden is best seen in April, when the cherry blossoms are blooming.

Also, Subaru has dreams about having met someone under a cherry tree blooming out of season when he was but a small child, but he cannot quite recall what was being said.

This park was very popular in spring when the cherry blossoms are blooming.

In Finland, the blooming of bird cherry ( Prunus padus, Finnish tuomi ) signifies the start of the summer for many people.

Irish artist Doreen Kennedy's photography project * Mono no Aware is an homage to cherry blossoms, which, in Japan, by blooming en-masse, and living for only a short while symbolize clouds and act as an enduring metaphor for the mono no aware concept of the ephemeral nature of life.

Landscaping at the station included trees that bloom ( cherry ), which TriMet traditionally shuns in favor of non-blooming tree species due to higher maintenance costs of the blooming trees.

* Spring in Inokashira Park is the season of the blooming cherry trees that line the pond.

During the blooming period of cherry blossoms the park receives many visitors.

In addition, on the west side of the park there are many flowers to be seen in the flowering plum grove before the blooming period of the cherry trees.

" Hanami " is the centuries-old practice of picnicking under a blooming sakura or ume tree.

The citron tree is very vigorous with almost no dormancy, blooming several times a year, and is therefore fragile and extremely sensitive to frost.

In Poland painting the whole trunk is also said to help keep the body of the tree cool in late winter / early spring months and hence help prevent fruit trees from blooming too soon i. e. when warm sunny days could promote rapid tree warming, rising sap and bloom and intermittent frosty nights could damage outer tree rings and destroy the young buds and blossoms.

The tradition calls for wearing the martenitsa until the person sees a stork or a blooming tree.

A landscape with a blooming rose tree, a jug of strawberries, a selection of fruit, and a marble bust of Pan, dated 1655, is in the Hermitage at St Petersburg.

People are supposed to take off their martenitsi when they see the first signs that spring has already come-a blooming tree or a stork.

Ibarbourou's feminism is evident in poems such as " La Higuera ", in which she describes a fig tree as more beautiful than the straight and blooming trees around it, and " Como La Primavera ", in which she asserts that authenticity is more attractive than any perfume.

Bertha sees the blooming pear tree in the garden as a symbol of her happiness and her friendship with Pearl.

The six lines, which begin the poem, describe a girl who passes a blooming tree, and envies its beauty, and on top to the poem is the word " Swingers " ( in Cobain's handwriting ) ; it has been suggested that by juxtaposing these lines with his emaciated self-portrait, Cobain was making a comment on his own loss of creativity and his personal image being in contrast to his public one.

Cool air moving slowly through the open or smashed-out side windows hinted of blooming roadside vegetation, and occasionally a faint fragrance of perfume swirled from the back seat.

I had a one-room studio which overlooked an ancient courtyard filled with flowers and plants, blooming everlastingly in the southern sun.

The tulips and the big pink peonies had been blooming along the drive, and he had walked up from the bus almost singing.

Already the jonquils were blooming in a flock by the front gate, and the periwinkles were coming on, blue by the porch steps.

The more I talked with him, the more convinced I became that that was the secret of their riotous blooming.

Their seeds produce vigorous blooming plants half again the size of the unimproved strains.

Pick the flowers, keep the soil dampened, and each of the pegged-down branches will take root and become a little plant and go on blooming for the rest of the season.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

Insecticides used on blooming plants kill many bees, both by direct poisoning and by contamination of their food supply.

The solubility of powdered gelatin can be enhanced by sprinkling it into the liquid several minutes before heating, " blooming " the individual granules.

To increase plant growth, lighting systems such as metal halide lamps for growing stage only or high-pressure sodium for growing / flowering / blooming stage are used to lengthen the day or to supplement natural sunshine if it is scarce.

After the second world war English became the main language for large television productions, which caused a blooming of science-fiction series in the UK, but not in continental Europe.

Also, Valentine's Day ( 14 February ) is recognized by some countries as heralding the first rites of spring, such as flowers blooming.

Later in 1855 Garibaldi decided to settle there and planted the first trees of the blooming pinewood which covers the island today.

The 1920s were in a number of ways the blooming of Bloomsbury.

In addition, blooming algae often reduced visibility to 20 feet ( 6 m ) within hours.

" Pfingsten, das liebliche Fest ", speaks of Pentecost as a time of greening and blooming in fields, woods, hills, mountains, bushes and hedges, of birds singing new songs, meadows sprouting fragrant flowers, and of festive sunshine gleaming from the skies and coloring the earth-iconic lines idealizing the Pentecost holidays in the German speaking lands.

The precise origin of the ancient custom of decorating eggs is not known, although evidently the blooming of many flowers in spring coincides with the use of the fertility symbol of eggs — and eggs boiled with some flowers change their color, bringing the spring into the homes.

Although there is no officially recognized threshold level, algae can be considered to be blooming at concentrations of hundreds to thousands of cells per milliliter, depending on the severity.

Additionally, bird migration, flower blooming, and the growth of Rome that caused the Colosseum to become embedded within the modern city centre rather than on the outskirts of the ancient city, as well as deliberate transport of species, are also contributing causes.

' The American ground was wild and new, a place where a blooming foreigner needed all the help he could get.

While Bell had hoped his new Photophone could be used by ships at sea and to also displace the plethora of telephone lines that were blooming along busy city boulevards, his design failed to protect its transmissions from outdoor interferences such as clouds, fog, rain, snow and such, that could easily disrupt the transmission of light.

At the peak of the blooming season, orange petals seem to cover all 1, 745 acres ( 706 ha ) of the reserve.

Some Malaysian species, such as R. keithii, begin blooming at night and begin to decompose only two to three days after blooming, after a six to nine-month budding period.