Sacramento in Georgetown, CA: Mr. Green Thumb, Zack Dowell's Hibaku Ginkgo and Jujube planting

A few days ago, I received in the mail another shipment of Hibaku seeds – two more ginkgo and twojujube – from my friend Hiroshi Sunairi, he of Tree Project Film fame.

In the package was a screener of Hiroshi’s film, and it is beautiful and thoughtful and has a gentle rhythm, and the skies and clouds of Hiroshima remind me of the skies in Miyakazi films, and many of the Hibaku Trees are camphor besides – recall that in Tonari no Totoro/My Neighbor Totoro, Satsuki and Mei move into the Japanese countryside, a giant camphor tree nearby being one of their father’s main reasons for choosing the house.

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Cassandra Fralix's Hibaku Persimmon tree seedling planted in a public park in the Greenway in Columbia, SC - The Columbia Peace Pole Initiative committee

This is the Persimmon seedling that Cassandra grew for a couple of years. languages being engraved on the peace pole by The Columbia Peace Pole Initiative committee Cassandra's seed came from the Former place of Kokutaiji Temple and Atago Pond in Hiroshima, Japan 旧国泰寺愛宕池 https://goo.gl/maps/7BrPm1BduuDCpCyRA https://www.green-greetings.com/2021/index.php

New York: Chie Kawasaki and Satoru Eguchi's Persimmon seeds sprouted

Chie Kawasaki with newly planted pots on May 12th at "Eat Clay or Die" exhibition curated by Susannah Tisue and Michele Quan in May at Greenwich House Pottery. "I was about to give up then it sprouted! " ---Chie Kawasaki 「もうダメかと思っていたら、芽が出ました!」 ---ちえ Congrats, Chie and Satoru! A recent update of Persimmon. The end of July.

HIBAKU GINKGO TREE IN ELEPHANT FOOT FOR "SOUND OF MUSIC" AT NYU

THE SOUND OF MUSIC War, beauty, and survival Vanessa Albury, Jesse Bransford, Jacob Cohen, Mila Geisler, Pamela Jue, Caroline Polachek, Max Razdow, Hiroshi Sunairi Curated by Jan Van Woensel During the Cold War, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) planned to broadcast The Sound of Music on radio in the event of a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom. The show would be part of an emergency timetable of programs designed to "reassure" the public in the aftermath of the attack. An altered, simplified and popular version of the life of Maria Augusta von Trapp (1905 – 1987) is depicted in the 1965 movie musical The Sound of Music . In Salzburg, Austria, before the outbreak of the Second World War, Maria wedded naval commander Georg Ritter von Trapp. Partly due to strong economic pressures from Germany, the family lost their fortune in 1935. To survive, the Trapps sent away most of their servants, moved into the top floor of their house, and rented the empty rooms to s...

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