Baby blue eyes (Nemophila menziesii) are native to North America but now grown across Japan. Their Japanese name is "ruri karakusa," which translates to "lapis lazuli arabesque."
More than a dozen gardens in Japan have grown baby blue eyes, attracting many tourists. One of them is the Hitachi Sunrise Park in Ibaraki prefecture, which has grown the plant since 2002 and its more than 5 million baby blue eyes went viral from 2015 to 2018. The park attracted 800,000 people in April and May, the baby blue eyes season, in 2025 with an admission fee of about 3 dollars per person! You can't underestimate social media's power, can you?
The baby blue eye in the first and second photos is growing wild. Maybe some baby blue eyes are exhausted from too much attention, wanting to be alone.
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| 2026/3/31 |
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| 2026/3/31 |
