Today was spent going up and down the ladders (I ended up using three different ladders!) pruning wisterias in the Walled Garden. Happily it’s all done there on the wall but I know we have a few more to prune in different areas. I love the job but because it takes long time, I sometimes feel a bit impatient because my mind may drift off to other tasks that need to be done, very soon.
今日は一日中 藤 の剪定。楽しい作業ですがはしごを上ったり降りたり、そしてあまり動かないので寒い・・・でもなんとかこのエリアは終了。
Wisterias are on the wall far end. 藤は（見えにくいですが）奥の壁に沿って植えられています。
Empty beds! そして ウォールド・ガーデンはほぼ空っぽ。
I had a lot to take on this week. I am being given lectures on planting design based on an actual area of the garden, with a possibility of coming true. This is very exciting and so far, the garden design course I was studying in London is helping me a lot! I have to get the measurement taken and start drawing and coming up with some ideas (concept). Apart from that, we are given 25 plants that we will have to be able to identify from bare branches. After work today I went round collecting bits of branches from these plants – I collected them in a bag and brought them back into my flat only to find that I cannot tell which one is which…
今週はいろいろと課題が足されました。まず、デザインのレッスンでは再来週までに課題のエリアの簡単な測量と、コンセプトプランの提出、さらに２５のIDが発表になりました・・・が、今回のIDは枝のみ（葉、花なし）で名前を当てられるように。ということでこれも２週間後にテスト。
Some are easier to tell apart with some strong characteristics on bark, buds or leaf scars. This one below is one of the easiest one.
Hamamelis × intermedia
It gets dark so early now, one (of many) thing I still struggle to cope; we do not have such big day length difference in Japan. The moon was bright and looked very large... some things never look quite the same on a picture.
今日は満月でした。たぶん。イギリスではどんどん日が短くなって今は日の出８時過ぎ、日の入り４時です。しかも雨・曇りの日が多い。これにはどうもまだ慣れない・・・陽が足りないよー！
