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The original stamps of A-bombed trees, made by Green Greetings 2008, go on sale today from 8:00 a.m. at Hiroshima Naka Post Office. From tomorrow (August 7), the stamps will be sold at all the post offices in the Higashi, Naka, Nishi, Minami wards and in Naka-machi, Fuchu-cho, Akigun (except for branch post offices) until Friday, October 31, 2008.

Total number of sheets sold: 1,000

Price: 1,200 yen per sheet (1 sheet has ten 80-yen stamps)
※They will be sold by sheet.

A tour of A-bombed trees was conducted on Saturday, October 27.
We would like to thank Mr. Horiguchi for his valuable explanation and the participants for joining the tour.

The following is a photograph of this tour. The tree is a kurogane holly at Hiroshima Castle.

We will conduct a tour of A-bombed trees this year too, guided by Mr. Chikara Horiguchi, a tour doctor.

This year, we will walk along the “historical route” of Hiroshima.
We will start from JR Hiroshima Station and visit 10 A-bombed trees at Hiroshima Castle and other places in three hours.

Day and hour: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Saturday, October 27
Meeting place and time: 9:45 a.m. at the north exit of Hiroshima Station

Please call Mr. Shimizu the International Peace Promotion Department of the City of Hiroshima at 082-242-7831 and tell us your name and contact information. The personal information (address, name, telephone number, content of your application) will be only used for the purpose of the tree tour and be kept confidential.

We look forward to your participation.

Maximum number of participants: 30
We look forward to your participation.

Green Greetings Project hopes that many people will know about the A-bombed trees that survived and strive hard to live.

This is the third year of the project. We will continue disseminating the information of the A-bombed trees.

Mr. Horiguchi, the tree doctor, treated the camphor tree located at the parking lot of the Motomachi apartments in order to restore its strength.

As more than 60 years have passed since the atomic bombing, the City of Hiroshima is examining the A-bombed trees. If the trees are weak with rotting scars and hardened ground, the city treat them under the guidance of the tree doctor so that the trees are revitalized.

On August 6, 1945, the military facilities in Motomachi were destroyed, leaving some ferroconcrete structures and brick buildings. The trees around here were all burned, and most of them died. Under the situation, the camphor tree survived in the scorched ground and has continued to live.

The tree, however, is located in a parking lot, and the ground is covered with asphalt right up to this tree. The asphalt surface has cracks, and the tree is slanting toward the east. On the ground on the east side of the trunk, there are stenches, indicating that fallen leaves and other garbage have been repeatedly burned here.

This time, the surface ground around the tree was removed to check the conditions of the roots. Then, compost, charcoal powder and perlite were put in the soil.

Camphor trees live longest among Japanese trees. The camphor tree became invigorated after the treatment. We hope the tree will keep watching over us. Let us make more efforts to take care of the A-bombed trees and the natural environment of Hiroshima.

Today, Green Greetings Project donated a part of the contributions from the supporting organizations to the City of Hiroshima to be used for protecting A-bombed trees. We thought once again what we can do to protect the A-bombed trees, which are living witnesses of the atomic bombing.

We apologize that we have not been able to update our blog for some time. We would like to continue writing about the trees.

Today, we conducted a tour of A-bombed trees.
We would like to thank Mr. Horiguchi for his precious guiding. We would also like to thank the people who participated in this tour.

The photograph was taken in front of the aogiri tree.
Aogiri has nuts, and the nuts can be eaten.
The nuts were once used as an alternative to coffee beans.

Today, we heard very interesting stories that we didn’t know.
We would like to write about the tour of A-bombed trees, hoping that those who have not joined the tour can enjoy reading.

As information was already given to those who have applied for the tree tour, we will hold a tour of A-bombed trees on Thursday October 19, 2006.

We would like to apologize that the tour has been postponed due to rain.

The weather forecast says it will be fine tomorrow.
We are looking forward to seeing you.

We will write about tomorrow’s tour in the blog.
If you cannot join us, please visit the blog.

See you tomorrow.

The tour of A-bombed tree scheduled tomorrow will be postponed as the chance of rain will be 70%. If it rains, it is difficult to walk and we cannot observe the trees very well. Therefore we decided to postpone the tour.

We apologize to those who have signed up for the tour.
We will reschedule the date and conduct the tour sometime soon.
We will let you know the revised schedule as soon as the date is fixed.

Thank you!

Hello.

We would like to invite you to the tour of A-bombed trees, guided by Mr. Chikara Horiguchi, a tree doctor, from 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 5.
Mr. Horiguchi will explain the conditions of each tree and various episodes.

The tour will start from the aogiri on the north side of Peace Memorial Museum and visit 11 locations of the A-bombed trees in the central part of Hiroshima in two hours.

Date: Thursday, October 5

Meeting time: 0:45 p.m.

Meeting place: In front of Peace Memorial Museum

Contact: info@green-greetings.com

Gifts will be presented to the participants.

We look forward to your participation.