the garden has survived another winter. now that spring is almost over, and rainy season is coming, it should be ok for another few months. it's really a good garden, fairly low maintenance. last year the landlady sent over men to take care of it once in a while, trimming the pine tree in front and taking care of the hedges. she also told us that she would come by to weed sometimes, seeing as i was pregnant and all. but i don't think she ever did.
i feel that i have to take care of the garden because if yoshi does it, he just hacks things. it was kind of sad last spring. *sigh* he even cut off the blackberry vine (which the landlady had pointed out to me earlier) which actually had some berries on it! ok, sure, maybe only six berries for the year, but i have not found any fresh blackberries here!!
of course, one thing i dislike about the garden is all the bugs. and we have this nice porch which the landlady painted just before we moved in, but she didn't paint the rails and wasps and hornets come by to take the wood to make paper *shudder*. you know how much i hate the suzume-batchi.
so, how about a few photos? these are from the garden. then from my planters. some of the flowers are from the winter, some are from the spring (can you tell the difference?) and the one spider plant that actually survived winter with my husband (it died, but then began to sprout again; i didn't expect that!)
and the spider plants. the green one just below is the one re-growing. the others are from the garden, also re-growing. i hope i can keep these alive through the hot summer!
you can also see these on my flickr page. but i like to make long drawn-out posts with pictures!
May 7, 2024
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3 comments:
Last week I found a wasp building a nest on a bucket on our deck. Building on a bucket!!!! Can you believe it!!!! I am head gardener at this place. Even when pregnant. I did a major tree job last fall and I am still sawing up branches to carry to the garbage..
My husband suggested that if I couldn`t take care of the yard, we should live in a mansion. Hang in there and do your best with the garden. I love that Hostas!!!!! and spider plants are tough.,
my potted spider plants have always died in cold weather. rather a weak plant, i always thought...(killed plenty in my time...)
You have a gorgeous garden! One thing, I really love about Japan, is all the beautiful flowers! I really like hydrangeas a lot, you're so lucky to have them in your garden, so you get to see them everyday! I laughed, what you said about, disliking all the bugs in the garden. I do too. They give me the shivers actually! Last week, I saw a spider *so* big crawling on the front yard, the thing actually had hair or fur or whatever! LOL. But it scared the living daylights outta me! In Chiba snakes are also common. Yesterday when I was driving to the grocery store, there was a huge snake crawling on the road! Yikes! : )
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