一昨年たくさん植えたはずのアネモネ、去年思っていたほど芽が出ませんでした。パープルのを植えたのですがなぜか１つだけピンクが混じっていたので、去年はピンクを１０個植えました。でも、やはり全部は芽が出ず、半分くらいかな？もう少し増やしたいので、また今年植えようと思います。スノードロップもたくさん植えたのにあまり芽を出さなかったですし、今日ふと気づいたのですが、そう言えばフロントガーデンに植えたクロッカス、２種類植えたはずなのに１種類は全然出ませんでした。がっかり。

We had many anemone bulbs the year before last year, but not many came out last year.  We had purple ones planted but for some reason one pink one came out.  As I wanted more anemone, I had 10 pink ones planted last year but not all of them came out this year, I think only about a half did.  I would like more of them so I think I’ll plant more this year.  We were quite disappointed with the snowdrops this year as we had planted so many.  Also, I just realised that we had planted 2 kinds of crocuses but one of them (we put in 300 of them!)  didn’t come out at all!  So disappointing.

アネモネ、ずいぶん元気で結構お花が咲いているので少し切花にしました。お隣のフロントガーデンにもアネモネを植えられていて、１種類は淡い白に近いパープルで中心から少し外側に向かってもう少し濃いパープルがグラデーションになっていてとても綺麗なので秋にはそれも植えたいなと思って検索しましたが見つかりませんでした。アネモネ、いろいろな種類があって八重のも綺麗なので欲しいなと思うのですが、ネット検索ではやはり見つからず残念です。もちろん植物によるのですが、全般的には日本の方が種類が多いように思います。まぁ、植物に限らずなんでも日本は研究に研究を重ねて新しい種類を開発するので、植物もそうなのでしょう。

Still, the anemones that came out this year are looking good and there are quite a lot in bloom now so I cut some to put in a little vase.  Our next door neighbour has some anemones in their front garden and one of them is very pale purple with darker purple from the centre towards the outside with graduation, they look very pretty so I thought I would get them this year but I haven’t found them online.  I also know that there are some multi-layered ones and would love to have them but again I haven’t found them online.  I think in general there are many different kinds of one plant available in Japan than here in my experience (not that I bought any in Japan but I do see them online) although I guess it depends on what sort of a plant.  I guess that isn’t surprising because they do put a  lot of effort on researching to develop something new or something better in every industry in Japan.