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Green Legacy Hiroshima was established to safeguard and spread the seeds and saplings of Hiroshima’s A-Bomb survivor trees worldwide. It is hoped that many partners will join this initiative and become active ambassadors in their countries of Hiroshima, its peace message and its green legacy.

グリーン・レガシー・ヒロシマは広島の被爆樹木を守り、その種や苗木を世界中に送り届けるために設立されました。多くのパートナーがこのイニシアチブに参加し、自分たちの国における広島と平和のメッセージ、「緑の遺産」の大使となってくれることを期待しています。


The Green Greetings Project was launched by GLH partner and committee member at the Chugoku Shikoku Hakuhodo market design department on August 6, 2005. Click here to view the website.


Click here to read a message from GLH Coordinator Nassrine Azimi.


GLH regional hub at CAFRE partners bring tidings of a new home at Hillsborough Castle for Hiroshima's Platanus orientalis. Click here to view more.


A moving speech by the dedicated GLH partner in the Netherlands, Dr. Rinny Kooi. Click here to view more.


GLH partner Dr. Elinor Breman, who leads the Millennium Seed Bank project at Kew Gardens in the UK, presented to his majesty the Emperor of Japan two of the Hiroshima saplings received from GLH. Click here for more and to view video.

 


Grateful to GLH partner and regional hub the San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) for hosting a special commemoration ceremony at the exact time of the ceremony in Hiroshima. Click here to view the website.


Thanks to Mihoko Kumamoto who guided Nikhil Seth, Alex Mejia and Chisa Mikami for a special visit to our little Camellia at Sophia University in Tokyo. Click here for more.


A mini documentary on composer Steve Heitzeg's Green Hope After Black Rain which had had its world premiere at the Saint Paul Civic Symphony, the Sister Orchestra of the Nagasaki Symphony Orchestra, was recently released. To view the full performance, click here. To view the mini documentary, click here


The online science journal IFL Science has just published a piece by journalist Tom Hale on Hiroshima and Nagasaki's hibakujumoku. It gives a wonderful overview of the hibakujumoku and their history, as well as the work of GLH. To read the full article, click here.


GLH Regional Hub the San Diego Botanical Garden (SDBG) has been raising new species of the hibakujumoku seedlings, such as the Citrus natsudaidai (Summer orange) and Ilex rotunda (Kurogane holly,) increasing the varieties of saplings available on the American continent.


On June 18th, 2024, GLH held a committee meeting. Present were the GLH secretariat including coordinator Nassrine Azimi; co-founder Tomoko Watanabe; tree doctor Chikara Horiguchi; and delegates from Hiroshima Botanical Garden, Hiroshima Prefectural Government, and Chugoku Shimbun Hakuhodo (who runs Green Greetings).To read more, click here.


GLH co-founder Tomoko Watanabe and master gardener, Chikara Horiguchi, attended a series of events organized by partners in Norway. They had a chance to visit the Ginkgo sapling sent by GLH to Oslo University Botanic Garden. To read more, click here.


An article published in the Yomiuri Shimbun about six camphor and 13 ginkgo of hibakujumoku that survived the tragic fires in Chile. New leaves have sprouted from these trees, encouraging residents during the recovery process. To read the article, click here (Japanese).


GLH Regional Seed Hubs

San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) in San Diego, California and the College of Agriculture, Food & Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) in Northern Ireland

We are delighted that the SDBG and CAFRE have agreed to become GLH regional seed hubs. We hope their help will facilitate sharing A-bombed tree seeds with more partners in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America.


Japanese Pamphlet 日本語パンフレット


See here for 2023-2024 Hibaku second-generation seeds availability for dispatch.

Latest Updates

University of Connecticut (UConn)
University of Connecticut (UConn) - September 2024

We are happy to announce a new partnership with the University of Connecticut (UConn). Sean Vasington and Matthew Opel (pictured left) have received the ginkgo seeds.

Dunedin Botanic Garden
Dunedin Botanic Garden - September 2024

A ginkgo, nurtured from seed to sapling for seven years, was planted on World Peace Day in Dunedin. Thank you to all of those in New Zealand who have made this planting a reality.

Sophia University
Sophia University - August 2024

Thanks to Mihoko Kumamoto who guided Nikhil Seth, Alex Mejia and Chisa Mikami of UNITAR, for a special visit to our little Camellia, planted on the grounds of Sophia University in Tokyo.

Universidad Austral de Chile
Universidad Austral de Chile - August 2024

Dr. Gerdhard Jessen, deputy director of the botanical garden at the Universidad Austral of Chile, shared special news about their trees on this August 6, and their future vision :

‘….We are happy to announce that a new milestone was achieved 6th August…we planted the second-generation trees from the survivor trees we have been raising since 2011. As you can see in the attached pictures and the design created by our landscape collaborator Claudia Salinas, 19 trees are now at the definitive site in our Botanical Garden.’

Leiden Botanical Garden
Leiden Botanical Garden - August 2024

New batch of Ginkgo seeds have safely arrived at our partners at the Leiden University Botanic Garden.

With gratitude to GLH partner Rinny Kooi and her colleagues in Leiden, to David Dowd, James Ross and their colleagues at GLH regional hub at CAFRE, Northern Ireland, to Nakahara-san and the team at the Hiroshima Botanic Garden — and to generations past and present, who have tended to the seeds and saplings, and will do so in the future.

International Committee of the Red Cross
International Committee of the Red Cross - July 2024

Akiko Perona, UNITAR chief of communications who was instrumental in helping us plant a hibakujumoku sapling at ICRC, sent us photos of the tree as it stands (July 2024) — a magnificent specimen, clearly ICRC gardeners have taken good care of Hiroshima’s green ambassador of peace.

Millennium Seed Bank (MSB)
Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) - June 2024

GLH partner Dr. Elinor Breman, who leads the Millennium Seed Bank project at Kew Gardens in the UK, presented to his majesty the Emperor of Japan two of the Hiroshima saplings received from GLH — the Apananthe aspera (Muku tree), seeds of which were collected and sent in 2021 and planted in 2022, and the Cinnamon camphora (Camphor tree), seeds of which were collected in 2019 and planted in 2022

Elinor wrote:

...we displayed two of the saplings grown from GLH seeds during the Emperor of Japan's State Visit in the UK, which took place in Kew Gardens. I talked to His Majesty about the work of the Millennium Seed Bank, and about our collaboration with GLH.

https://youtu.be/BAXKvtYBidQ?si=eCThHVxw8pdK5y4H&t=689.

“Official YouTube channel operated by Nippon Television Network Corporation's News Department".

Oslo Botanical Garden
Oslo Botanical Garden - June 2024

GLH co-founder Tomoko Watanabe and master gardener, Chikara Horiguchi, attended a series of events organized by partners in Norway. They had a chance to visit the Ginkgo sapling sent by GLH to Oslo University Botanic Garden and to give talks on Hiroshima and the Hibaku-jumoku in Oslo and Stavanger, thanks to partners Andreas Løvold and Ekuko Naka.  They also attended a special exhibit organized through the Ullandhaug Botanical Garden in Stavanger. To read the transcript of Tomoko’s speeches, click here. They also attended a special exhibit organized through the Ullandhaug Botanical Garden in Stavanger. To read the transcript of Tomoko’s speeches, click here. Click here to view the announcement for the event at Natural History Museum, Oslo University.

Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria - March 2024

We are delighted to learn that Jo Brennan of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria could receive today a batch of hibakujumoku Ginkgo seeds, hand delivered by GLH partners Virginia McNally and Dominic Napoleone of the University of Melbourne. Under a shining sun, a small handover ceremony was set against the backdrop of one of the Gardens' flourishing Ginkgo specimens. The seeds are currently undergoing cold stratification in the Gardens' nursery as they prepare to be sowed. We extend our gratitude to all involved for their efforts to make this exchange happen.

V.F.F. Institute Mare Nostrum e.V. NPO-Austria
V.F.F. Institute Mare Nostrum e.V. NPO-Austria - January 2024

In June 2017 GLH sent seeds to V.F.F. Institute Mare Nostrum e.V. NPO-Austria, who since have diligently documented the process. Their website features images of the seeds, and the flowchart below, detailing application, arrival and sowing of seeds. It also has a detailed technical analysis that includes step-by-step images and explanations for germinating the seeds. Gratitude for their care and efforts, as well as those of Shuichi Hamatani and colleagues from the Hiroshima Botanical Garden.