Chameleon plant flowers are currently in bloom in the Bluebell Garden. With their four pure white petals and bright yellow stamens, they look absolutely lovely against the backdrop of the beautiful foliage. A few double-flowered chameleon plants, where the stamens have formed into petals, are also in bloom. Once these flowers start to bloom, the rainy season will soon be upon us.
ブルーベルの庭では今ドクダミの花が咲いています。4枚の真っ白な花びらと鮮やかな黄色の雄しべが、美しい葉色を背景にとても綺麗です。雄しべが花びらになった八重咲きのドクダミも少し咲いています。この花が咲きだすと間もなく梅雨入りです。
In the middle of the rainy season, gardenias are blooming in the Bluebell garden. They smell very sweet. The hydrangea flowers, which have been blooming for some time now, are also getting bigger and brighten up the dark garden in the shade of the wild cherry tree. The chameleon plant also continues to bloom. It too has a distinctive fragrance. The leaves of the Allium triquetrum have completely withered away and the soil can be seen in the areas where the dead leaves have been removed. The bluebell leaves have also generally died back.
梅雨の最中、ブルーベルの庭ではクチナシの花が咲いてきました。とても甘くていい香りがします。少し前から咲いているアジサイの花も大きくなって、山桜の陰の暗い庭を明るくしています。ドクダミも咲き続けています。これも独特の香りを放っています。ミツカドネギの葉は完全に枯れて、枯葉を取り除いた部分は土が見えています。ブルーベルの葉もおおむね枯れてしまいました。
In the bluebell garden, the whitebells (Allium triquetrum) are in full bloom at the beginning of April, followed by the bluebells in full bloom in mid-April.
The chameleon plant blooms towards the end of May, when leaves of whitebell and bluebell gradually wither away.
ブルーベルの庭では、四月の初めにホワイトベル（ミツカドネギ）が満開になり、それに続いて4月中旬にブルーベルが満開になります。
そしてそれらの葉が次第に枯れていく5月の末ごろにドクダミが開花します。
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| Whitebell |
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| Bluebell |
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| Chameleon plant |
In summer, both whitebells and bluebells go dormant in their bulbs, and the chameleon plant thrives. And many other weeds also become overgrown.
During the summer and autumn, weeding is carried out, including the chameleon plant, which is a very vigorous plant that spreads by underground stems, so it must be frequently cut above ground to slow it down.
Weeding in mid-summer is hard work due to the intense heat, but it is an important job for next spring's flowers.
夏はホワイトベルもブルーベルも球根で休眠となり、ドクダミが繁茂します。そして他の雑草もたくさん茂ります。
夏から秋にかけて、ドクダミも含めて草取りをします。ドクダミは地下茎で広がる非常に成長旺盛な植物なので、頻繁に地上部を刈り取ってその勢いをそぐ必要があります。
真夏の草取りは猛暑のために大変な仕事ですが、来春の花のための大事な仕事です。
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| Before weeding |
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| After weeding |
The bluebell garden turned blue with bluebell flowers in mid-April, but the leaves will soon wither away.
Instead, the chameleon plant, which grew vigorously in May, began to produce pure white flowers. Most of the flowers are single-petalled with four petals, but the double-petalled variety is also blooming in some areas.
The growth is so vigorous that if you are not careful, other plants will be driven out, so you need to control the vigour by pulling them out from time to time.
ブルーベルの庭は4月中旬はブルーに染まりましたが、まもなく葉も枯れていきます。
それに代わって、五月になって俄然元気に育ったドクダミが純白の花を咲かせ始めました。四枚花びらの一重の花がほとんどですが、一部に八重咲の品種も咲いています。
油断すると他の植物が追い出されるほど旺盛な成長力なので、時々抜いたりして勢いをコントロールする必要があります。
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| A single flower 一重咲き |
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| A double flower 八重咲き |
Chameleon plant is flowering in the bluebell garden now.
It has a distinctive aroma.
Pure white petals are so beautiful.
Note that it is a invasive plant that spreads by underground stems.
ドクダミの花が今、ブルーベルの庭で咲いています.
独特の香りがあります.
純白の花びらがとても綺麗です.
地下茎で広がる侵略的植物なので注意が必要です.
Along the path from the main garden to the bluebell garden, white Campanula punctata is in full bloom. The flowers are pretty and bell-shaped, with small spots on the inside of the flower. The scientific name 'punctata' means spot in Latin.
メインガーデンからブルーベルの庭へ続く道沿いでは白いホタルブクロが満開です. 可愛らしい釣鐘型の花で、花の中を見ると小さな斑点があります. 学名のプンクタータは斑点を意味します.
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| Campanula punctata ホタルブクロ |
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| The garden path to the Bluebell Garden ブルーベルの庭への小道 |
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| Chameleon plant with white flowers in the Bluebell Garden ブルーベルの庭で白い花を咲かせるドクダミ |
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| Single flowers 一重の花々 |
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| A double flower 八重の花 |
