お願いしていたガーデニングの会社の方がやっと来てくださり、お２人で１日かかって雑草を抜いたり必要なものを剪定したり、（竹は広がりすぎるので地面の中に容器ごと埋めてあるはずなのですが、その容器が破れているようで外に広がって出て来ていたので）はみ出して出て来ていた竹を処分したりしてくださったので、写真ではわかりにくいかもしれませんが、裏庭もフロントガーデンもとってもスッキリしました。
We finally had a couple of gardeners come to tidy up our gardens. We did contact them a couple of months or so ago and one of them came to have a look one day but the earliest day they could come and do the work was today. They got rid of all the weeds, got rid of overflowing bamboos (they are in pots in the ground but it looks like they have burst and there were quite a lot of them coming up outside the area), and cut back a lot of plants. The photos may not show so much difference but in real eye both the front garden and the back garden look very different and much nicer.
お忙しくて、次に来てもらえるのは１ヶ月後だそうですが、それまでに植えたいお花や植物を決めておけば手配して植えてくださるそうです。
The gardeners are still very busy and won’t have time to come back for another month but they said they would get the flowers/plants that we want if we let them know in advance
春から初夏にかけては白いモックオレンジのお花やシャクナゲなどが咲いていましたが、今はほとんどお花は咲いていなくて少し寂しい感じがします。フロントガーデンのラベンダーはすっかり終わってしまい、白い薔薇が咲いているのと、裏庭にはパープルっぽいピンクの薔薇が少しと、赤に近いフューシャ、家の中から見えないところにピンクのガクアジサイが咲いているくらい。あまり手がかかるのは困りますがガーデナーさんに来ていただいてお手入れが出来る程度にどの季節にもお花が楽しめるお庭が理想なので、少し考えてリクエストしてみたいと思います。
In spring and early summer we had quite a lot of flowers like mock orange and rhododendrons but now we don’t have a lot of flowers out. In the front garden, the lavenders are completely finished (so the gardeners cut them down) so just white roses are out and in the back garden, there are just a few purplish pink roses and a few dark pink fuchsias and some pink hydrangeas and red roses where we cannot see from the house. We would like a lot more flowers all year around – as long as they don’t take too much work other than what the gardeners can do – so we’ll think about it and request them to get them for us.
ちなみに、我が家のお庭ではないですが、目の前のグリーンに植えられている果樹、ずいぶん育ってもう食べられそう？誰も食べていないみたいですけど。ただ、クラブアップルらしきものは、先日義弟が言っていましたが、途中で間引きしなくてはいけなかったみたいです、詰まって炒るところは腐って来ている感じです。
These are not from our garden but they are in the green in front of us – the fruits I have blogged before. They are growing and look like some of them can be eaten although I don’t think anyone is picking them. Sadly the crab apples look like some of them are going off. My brother-in-law told me the other day that we need to get rid of some of them at an early stage so they aren’t so clumped together.
