BEGINNING OF RAINY SEASON (梅雨入り)

 The start of the rainy season was announced for the Kyushu region the day before yesterday.  Much rain has fallen and vulnerable herbaceous plants with long thin stalks has fallen or broken here and there.  It's time to cut short such plants.


（九州地方が梅雨入りしたと一昨日発表がありました。たくさん雨が降って草花の長くて細い茎があちこちで倒れたり折れたりしています。短く切り戻す時期です。）


Two plants that suit the rain have become in bloom now.  They are both blue flowers.

（雨に似合う2種類の花が咲いています。どちらも青い花です。）

The first is sweet flag in the small pool.　

(ひとつは小さな池の花菖蒲）

Another one is hydrangea at the entrance.

（もう一つは入口の紫陽花）

Raindrop ripples on the small garden fountain tell us that the rainy season has come.

（小さな噴水の水面にできる波紋が梅雨の訪れを告げています。）

Lavender under an umbrella 

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POOL & BLUEBERRY （水槽とブルーベリー）

In the pool, water canna and sweet flag are growing.  Last November we divided water canna and reduced rhizomes.

Blueberry fruits are also growing behind the pool.  We will probably have the same good harvest as last year.


（水槽ではカンナとショウブが育ってきています。昨年11月にカンナは株分けして数を減らしました。水槽の後ろではブルーベリーの実が大きくなってきています。今年も去年と同じようにたくさん収穫が多分できそうです。）

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MY MOTHER'S BATHTUB

This is a very small pool in our garden.  In this, we planted water lily, sweet flag, and canna.   And a lotus is planted in a pot.

June 2014

A light blue sweet flag flower is blooming now.

At the end of June a gorgeous lotus flower bloomed. (June 2014)

This small pool is made of a bathtub of my mother.  She suffered from brain tumor when she was 50s, and since then she had been bedridden for 30 years.  She had used this bathtub in her bedroom.  It has four casters for moving in and out her bedroom.  She died in 2006.  

In 2011, I hit upon a plan to make a pool by using the bathtub.  My son helped me to make it during a Christmas vacation.  A water lily withered, but other water flowers bloom every year.  

Dec 2011

The bathtub was covered with wood panels.  

My son lent me a hand to make it.