Anyone longing for icy blue hyacinth flowers should add this one to the list ... American Old House Gardens aptly describes the pastel shade of this hyacinth as ‘wonderfully soft, baby-chick yellow’.

Tourists are turning out to stroll the flower-lined grounds of Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, and enjoy the millions of baby blue nemophila now blanketing its bucolic hills.