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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。

my vegetable patch

 

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。

lovely blue boat

 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・・・

Bottom Walled Garden in sun

Bottom Walled Garden in sun