One red lycoris, which blooms around the autumnal equinox, flowered a week before the autumnal equinox. Several more flowers should continue to bloom in other places. The lycoris is another flower that signals autumn.
秋の彼岸の頃に咲く赤いヒガンバナが、秋分の日の一週間前に一輪開花しました。他の所にもこれからいくつか花が咲くはずです。ヒガンバナも秋を知らせる花です。
In September, mornings and evenings are sometimes a few degrees cooler than in mid-summer, but daytime highs are still around 35°C, almost the same as in mid-summer. Some plants did not survive the hot summer and have died, but the peppers in the potager are now brightly coloured and beautiful. Asparagus branches have been killed or broken by pests and typhoon-force winds, and there are fewer branches and leaves, but many new shoots are growing. I will use some of them for food and let the rest grow more branches and leaves to store nutrients.
九月に入って朝晩が２，３度温度が真夏より低い日もありますが、日中の最高気温は相変わらず35℃前後と真夏とほとんど変わりません。植物によっては暑い夏を乗り切れずに枯れてしまったものもありますが、ポタジェでは今、唐辛子が鮮やかに色づいて綺麗です。アスパラガスは害虫や台風の強風などで枝が枯れたり折れたりして、枝葉が少なくなっていますが、新芽がたくさん伸びてきています。一部は食用にして、あとは枝葉を増やして栄養を蓄えさせようと思います。
Clematis terniflora (or Sweet Autumn Clematis) has started to flower. This wild clematis is a common vine in the wilds in Japan. It blooms at the end of summer every year and is one of the flowers that bring autumn with them.
The seeds, with their fluffy hairs like a hermit's beard, fly and grow everywhere in our garden. We always remove them where they are not needed.
This year the vines have gone up the Mube (Stauntonia hexaphylla) arch at the entrance to the bluebell garden and are now starting to flower. It has lots of small white flowers and is very beautiful.
センニンソウの花が咲き始めました。野生のクレマチスで、野山にもよく咲いているつる性植物です。毎年夏の終わりに咲き、秋をつれてくる花の一つです。
仙人の髭のような綿毛のある種が飛んで、私たちの庭でもあちこちに育ちます。不要な所はいつも取り除いています。
今年はブルーベルの庭の入り口にあるムベのアーチに蔓が上って、今花が咲き始めています。小さい白い花がたくさん咲いて、とても綺麗です。
Rain lily is a bulb plant that blooms at the end of summer. It begins to flower at the beginning of September, when the heat eases a little each year. This year was the hottest summer on record, but even so, the mornings and evenings are slightly cooler and the rain lily tell us that autumn is on its way.
タマスダレは夏の終わりに咲く球根植物です。毎年暑さが少し和らぐ9月の初めごろから咲き始めます。今年は史上最高の暑い夏でしたが、それでも朝晩はわずかに涼しさが感じられ、秋の足音をタマスダレが伝えてくれます。
Cleome, grown from a spillover seed in a gap in the stone slab, has flowered. They are very pretty flowers. We will be able to enjoy them for a while.
石板の隙間にこぼれ種から育ったクレオメが花をつけました。とても可愛らしい花です。しばらく楽しめそうです。
