1.
flower field; flower bed; flower garden
A field or area where flowers are grown or bloom in abundance. Can refer to a cultivated flower garden or a natural meadow full of flowers.
春の花畑は美しい。
The flower fields in spring are beautiful.
ラベンダーの花畑を見に北海道へ行った。
I went to Hokkaido to see the lavender fields.
丘の上に広がる花畑は、観光客に人気がある。
The flower fields spreading across the hilltop are popular with tourists.
2.
la-la land; dreamland (figurative)
Used figuratively and often sarcastically to describe someone whose thinking is naive, unrealistic, or blissfully detached from reality — as if their head is full of flowers.
頭の中が花畑だ。
Their head is full of flowers. (They're living in dreamland.)
恋をすると頭の中が花畑になる。
When you fall in love, your head turns into a flower field. (You become starry-eyed.)
あの人は頭の中が花畑で、現実が見えていない。
That person is living in la-la land and can't see reality.
A compound of 花 (flower) and 畑 (field). The literal meaning is straightforward, but the figurative usage 頭の中が花畑 (head full of flowers) is very common in casual speech and online.
FIGURATIVE USAGE:
The expression 頭の中が花畑 or お花畑 describes someone blissfully naive or out of touch with reality. It can be used self-deprecatingly about being love-struck, or critically about someone ignoring problems.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 花畑が広がる — flower fields spread out
- お花畑 — flower garden (with polite お); also used for the figurative sense
- 頭の中が花畑 — head full of flowers; starry-eyed, naive
RELATED TERMS:
- 花園 — flower garden; more literary and poetic
- 畑 — field, farm; the general word for cultivated fields