20110905

A brand new week!
新しい週です！

I worked in the South African Garden all day today. WEEEEEding.
It's been planted with annuals (from seeds) to replace tender plants that were killed by the last couple of cold winters. It was an emergency measure but because it was very successful and received a lot of positive comments from visitors, we are going to do the same next year.
今日は（月曜のシフトは）南アフリカの庭。で、草取り。
南アフリカの庭というものの、近年の寒い冬で大量の（寒さに弱い）植物が死んでしまったとのこと。で、緊急処置として１年草の種を大量に蒔いてみたらそれが大成功。お客さんの評判もよいし、お金もかからないしで、来年もやることに決定だそうです。

Because these are annuals, we are going to take everything out in late autumn and prepare the area for sowing. But at the moment, we need to keep it nice and tidy (that is, without weeds!). So here comes IDing and eradicating these naughties.
１年草なので秋の終わりには全部片付けて、また来年種を蒔けるように土をならしたりするんだけど、今のところは雑草ぬいてとりあえずなんとか見れるように・・・（ピークは過ぎてだいぶ枯れたのが目立ってきましたが）そこで大事なのが雑草を見分けられること！（簡単と思っても実は奥が深いのです。）

I will have to know names (preferably Latin, as well as common) and have to be able to identify them (even without flowers, preferably the seedlings). I will come back to you with the names once I know them, but here are some pictures...
雑草の名前を調べて覚えていかなければなりません。（できればラテン名も）そして花が咲いてなくても（できればまだ発芽して間もない状態でも）見分けられなければいけません・・・ではいくつか写真を。

Plantain


Creeping buttercup


Some kind of Euphorbia (possibly peplus?)