We have SUN!! It has been dry and SUNNY for some days now.
And it has actually been HOT. I had light sunburn on my calves (funny place, I
know) while I struggle to get tanned on my legs as much as I have got on my
arms (but my hands are actually pale – from wearing gloves). I hope this is
going to continue for a while.
晴れです！ここ何日か晴れて、気温も２５度以上にまで一気に上がりました。腕の日焼けとバランスをとろうと短パンで足も焼こうとしてたらふくらはぎが軽くひりひりします。手は手袋のおかげで白いまま。ミッキーマ〇ス状態です・・・
I was working at RHS garden Rosemoor for the first two weeks
on July. One of the trainees there had contacted us requesting a short-term
swap and I jumped onto the opportunity. It was great to see how RHS Garden
operates and meet a lot of other gardeners there. It is a bigger garden (ten
times the size of the Garden House) and has more people working for. I enjoyed
every single day there – even though the weather couldn’t have been worse
(rained practically every day).
７月に入って最初の２週間はRHS ローズモアという別の庭で働いていました。とてもいい経験でしたよー。ローズモアもとってもいい庭。ガーデンハウスの１０倍の敷地があります。
Now back at the Garden House, with the sun, a lot of areas
in the garden look lovely and colourful. There was a major incident while I was
away – a (big) part of the walls or the Walled Garden had collapsed. It blocked
the way between the Arboretum and Walled Garden – this meant that visitors have
to come in to the Arboretum from the top, come down all the way down then go
back up where they came from. It was not great for the flow of seeing the
garden. Fortunately we managed to open a path along the way and visitors can
now go through.
さてガーデンハウスに戻ったのですが、私がローズモアにいる間に、ウォールド・ガーデンの壁の一部（とても大きな一部）が崩壊するという事件がありました。そのためふさがれていた通路が応急処置的ながら昨日開通。万歳。でも壁はまだ崩れたままです・・・
South African Garden is in colours. I was amazed by the
colour variation (pictures below) in Californian poppies (Eschscholzia
californica). True beauty of this plant can only been seen in full sun.
サウスアフリカン・ガーデンのカリフォルニア・ポピーの色のバリエーションが豊富なので写真をとってみました。同じ種でこれほど違うとは・・・
My vegetable patch is cropping well. Here is my own organic
veggie box!
It has peas, broad beans, beet (for leaves), pea shoots,
rocket, spring onion and nasturtium flowers.
わたしのミニ菜園ではけっこう野菜がとれてます。
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| my vegetable patch |
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The Arboretum lake now has a boat called Nancy Fortescue,
one of the daughters of Lionel who has been very helpful with the garden
development over the years.
ボートも仲間入り。
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| lovely blue boat |
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I have only a month left here at the Garden House. I already miss it! Hope I can make several blog entries before the end...
あとここで働けるのも１ヶ月です。がんばって何回かブログも更新したい！なー・・・
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| Bottom Walled Garden in sun |
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| Bottom Walled Garden in sun |
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