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.

11/10/2014

PISKY AND GREENMAN IN ST. IVES, CORNWALL (コーンウォールの妖精とグリーンマン)

We stayed for two nights at St. Ives, Cornwall. There were beautiful landscapes and nice shopping streets.

We visited the Leach Pottery and Tate St Ives (art museum), and walked along the seashore to the Island, where we could see an extraordinary scenic view.

A panorama view of the north shore of St Ives.

Footprints of men, dogs and a vehicle on the sand

From the top of the Island.

A seaside restaurant

After lunch at a restaurant beside Porthgwidden beach, we walked the streets for shopping.

Marple bought some souvenirs here and there.

Just after this moment, a bronze stature man suddenly moved and the little girl started to cry.

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I had read that Cornwall is a world of piskies. I wished to buy some piskies in St Ives.

Piskie also known as a Pixie in other west counties.The Piskie is a general name for a fairy race or tribe in Cornwall. In appearance they look like old men with wrinkled faces, and are small in stature with red hair. They dress in the colours of the earth especially green, using natural materials such as moss, grass and lichen....

On some street, I found a shop selling 'The Lucky Cornish Pisky'. The shopkeeper has been making pisky by himself. I bought a sitting pisky with crystal in its hands.

A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit.

Commonly used as a decorative architectural ornament, Green Men are frequently found in carvings on both secular and ecclesiastical buildings.

I had been looking for sculptures on internet, but I could find no item for sale in Japan.
In another shop, I finally found a greenman, and bought it.

Now they are in our garden. The pisky sit on the brick of a bed of peony and Lycoris. The green man hangs on the pillar of the gazebo. We touch the pisky's hat, and he makes us happy. The green man protect us from the evils.