Cherry blossom is three weeks of it. Flip through the other forty-nine — and watch what's in bloom move up and down the country.
The calendar is the way in. Underneath it sits the ordinary thing — search, filter by month or flower, and open any of the 412 spots.




Photos Yamaguchi Yoshiaki from Japan (CC BY-SA 2.0) — via Wikimedia Commons
About 150,000 hydrangea plants of more than 100 kinds, some 3 million flowers, on a hill above Shimoda harbour, on the site of an old castle. The Shimoda Hydrangea Festival runs through June.