20120627

Where is summer? It is the end of June and... the temperature! 15? 16? My Japanese basil is just sitting there. I, very reluctantly, planted tomato out with not much hope. 

夏はどこ？もう６月の終わりだというのに気温は１５度？１６度？育てているシソもまったく大きくなりません。昨日はいやいやながらトマトを外に植えました・・・があまり期待してません。

Even without much sun, plants grow and flowers come and go.

太陽が出なくても植物は育ち、花が咲き、散り・・・

 

Perennial Foxglove Digitalis xfucata

Starfish?! seeds of peony.

 This Dock’s (Rumex sp. possibly hastatulus) flower is beautiful. Reddish if growing in sun, green in shade. It is a garden weed but we have a lot in Wild Flower Meadow and when the sun comes out (not often!) these flowers shine. I’ve been using these for my vase.
これはドックと呼ばれる雑草ですが、花がなかなかきれい。ちょっと赤みがかっているんですね。切り花としても使わせてもらってます。

 

Lime Tree Walk looks like a fairyland at the moment – grass is long and trees are in full leaves. Probably flowering up there but too high to see and too cold to smell them...
ライム・ツリー・ウォークは今ちょっと幻想的な感じ。