Petit English Garden of MARPLE & POIROT

My wife and I started gardening in Fukuoka (Japan) in 2003. There was nothing but muddy clayey sloping land. At the beginning we made several structure such as steps and paths, and planted turf, fruit trees, roses, herbs etc. In 2010, we visited several famous English gardens, including Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Mottisfont Abbey Garden and Hidcote Manor Garden. We were shocked by the glory of those gardens. Since then, we have been trying to make small but glorious gardens by ourselves.

庭の紹介

　夫婦で庭づくりを福岡の郊外で2003年に始めました.　赤土むきだしの斜面にまず階段や園路をつくって芝をはり、果樹やバラ、ハーブなどを植えました.

　2010年にイギリスの有名なガーデンの、シシングハースト、モティスフォントアビー、ヒドコートマナーなどを回り、その素晴らしさに圧倒され、それから自分たちで小さくても素晴らしい庭をめざして庭づくりをつづけています.

12/01/2014

DIVIDING WATER CANNA (水性カンナの株分け)

Yesterday we divided water canna in the pool. It really has grown so large and its pot became easy to lean.

I bought tree plastic cages for planting water plants.

We took canna out of a pot, and divided it by hand. Its rhizomes were bound tightly each other and it was hard to divide them.

Most of rhizomes were canna, and sweet flag didn't grow well.

So, water canna and sweet flag were not planted in the same cage. Water canna in two cages, and sweet flag in one cage.

Three cages were placed in the pond with a pot of lotus.

Remaining canna rhizomes will be planted somewhere else. We are discussing about it now.

In the pond, we keep small fish 'Japanese rice fish' (Oryzias latipes) . They were presented by a man who have a large pond in his biotope. They eat mosquito larva. We netted them to confirm that they survive. We found eight fish.