DIY Ikebana {Indoor hanami}

Dopo che abbiamo bevuto assieme, amici cari

facendo galleggiare fiori dei susini nei nostri calici,

non mi importa se quelli dell'albero non vi sono più.

- Man'yōshū -

After having drunk together, dear friends of mine,

letting floating the plum-tree flowers into our glasses,

I don't mind if the ones on the trees aren't there anymore.

(Translation of mine)

If you live in a Northern Italy small town on the mountains, you might miss the cherry blossom season you have admired in Tokyo once. This is why I blew the dust off a book about Ikebana and tried to recreate a kind of indoor hanami putting together some blossomed branches from my favourite trees of the garden.

I assembled:

Plum-tree: that most resembling a cherry one

Pyrus: my favourite pinky short-lived flowers tree

Magnolia: for an Asian touch of spring