Cocoon snowman ornamment

This Christmas ornament is made with a cocoon.

I stopped by the neighboring silk shop after work and found this cute one.

Another one. Lovely.

Today we planted some plants(Cyclamen, Viola,Wild strawberry,etc..) for our customer`s garden.

This garden is front garden of neighboring clinic.

There is auto-irrigation system.

Yesterday, I changed flowers of container at the side of front door.

Cyclamen, daffodil and,, the small pink flower ( I can't remember the name), etc..

We still have a landscaping construction and the pruning trees of 6 houses.

I have to work without day off until 31st with my father.

Good luck me! Take it easy me!

Hair moss

We sometimes plant a hair moss for Japanese garden. I like the moist and peaceful atmosphere.

Some example gardens with moss. This is the Small garden which my father made in Nagoya last year.

Another angle.

Another garden with moss. We ofthen use this stone which is one of disintegrated granite.

Stone arrangement is the one of art. The rocks look sharply in the green moss.

Just straight.

I trimmed these hedge yesterday. Trimming hedge straight is so difficult.

I think I did good job. But it took quite longer than I expected. My father is so fastidious about trimming hedge.

Straight, just straight.

Pruning other trees is easier than trimming hedge straight for me.

Inside of garden. My father pruned all tree other than hedge in the garden. Keeping natural shape and size of trees is difficult. I learned how to cut, but I need more experiences.

Chear up me! Have a nice day.

A Christmas Wreath

I made a wreath for Christmas at Ikebana lesson. This is not Ikebana(Japanese flower arrangement),but we really enjoyed a making wreath.

I put some leaves of eucalyptus on the vine loop at first.and then the silver colored fruits.

Other than that, we sticked some cottons, pinecones and foxfaces on it.

The atmosphere was like this.

Finished the wreath. I liked it. I hanged it on the wall of my home entrance.

Summer Summer go away!

Ah... very hot, too hot! It was 38 degrees today.

I had never experienced 38 degrees in September. This Summer is crazy.

　

This is an old persimmon tree in my garden.

It is seems like that this tree is more than 200 years old.

Watermelon

Bitter melon. We call this GOYA.　　　　

Good for health, but a little bitter.　　

Yey! Tomorrow is holiday.　But, I have a little bit work and have to get up like usual.

oh, Positive Positive.

Have a good Sunday!

Recent Landscaping Work

I haven't wrote my blog long time. This garden Which we have been making will complete soon.

The bamboo fence behind trees is not real bamboo. In Japan, imitation bamboo is getting popular because of that everlasting.

And Stone work.

.This bamboo fence is the one I made.

Lotus pot.

The Green and sunlight are beautiful.

I was asked new garden design. Drawing picture is difficult but happy time for me.

Cherry blossom

I visited Inuyama castle last weekend. It was windy and a little bit cold day,but cherry blossom was in bloom. Now , almost full bloom around here.

There are three national treasure castles in Japan. Inuyama castle is the one of it.

It is populer spot, but so close from my home. The traditional festival that has 400 years past take place this weekend. Of course I'm going to visit it.

There is a unique family in my relative's home.

This dog? Not her.

Wow. The correct answer is a Elephant tortoise. This tortoise is so powerful.

He break a fence easily and escape from here sometimes.

Wow, So messy. Whose home is this? ...mine. I and my father are professional landscaper, but,, our garden is so wild and messy. That's why, I started pruning trees.

and I found a good old wall for baseball which my father made for me long time ago( maybe 20 years ago. This wall was under the tree branches , but came out now .

I used to played with this when I was child.

The apple was going bad, so I put apple on the dead branch for birds.

The bird is waiting me go away. This apple was gone in the evening of the day.

Last week, we had lot of rain. so I made a bamboo fence of narrow width under the garage.

When it is done, I'm going to bring this to my custmer's home and set it.

I'm very busy these days. There are a lot of thing to do other than usual work.

I have to wake up early. but it's not easy for me to go out from warm bed ,eventhough I set the alarm for 5:00 every morning..

Have a good day.

The lesson of Ikebana

I go to take a lesson of Ikebana(Kado) a couple times a month. I bring some branches in bloom which I cut by myself in my garden. This season, Cornus Officinalis is in bloom beautifully in my garden . It is happy time to think what branches I bring for the lesson. She is Ikebana and Tea ceremony instructor. She teaches me how to arrange the branches using it.

'Ikebana' is the Japanese art of flower arrangement also known as 'Kado'. Ikebana is a creatibe expression ,but it has certain rules and types of shape . At first, I choose the proper line branches for center ,left behind side and right front side. And she show me how to set .

I take a lesson very politely sitting straight on tatami.

Finished. This is typical shape of Ikebana.

We also take a lesson of Tea ceremony.

It was raining last week, so I tried to combine Ikebana into container garden

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Spiraea cantoniensis Lour and,, I forgot the the name of pink one.

I planted a cup into other plants. and arranged the branches in it.

Look, I planted Leaf lettuce with flowers.

Another one. I was cleaning up the shed, and I made this one for a change.

Peaceful coloｒ combination.

This is my Box Lunch my mother made. I always have lunch outside sitiing on stones or terrace or lawn. It's like, , I always enjoy picnic everyday when it is nice weather especially this season.

I packed my box lunch in every morning,when I worked as gardener in Vancouner last year.

But now, I don't need to cook anymore. So easy and pretty yummy than the one I cook by myself. but, I cook only soup for box lunch and breakfast every morning.

That's why, you know,the soup looks so simple.