Gardening is hard work for me. I don't like it though I'm happy to see the beautiful garden. When I had my house built 5 years ago, I asked a gardener to design my garden that could be maintained as easily as possible. I hoped for a maintenance-free garden at that time. I think you can imagine how bad I am at gardening from this story.
By the way, it's getting hot and my dog Mocha seems to be feeling hot recently, so I got 3 potted trees, the Fraxinus griffithii as shade for his pen. They were leafy and the height and width of them was just what I thought was best.
I put these pots at the east side of his pen and these plants worked well as a sunshade. It was just what I expected. I was satisfied with the effect of the plants. Nature surpasses art. These plants looked decent and beautiful.
However...... These plants grew rapidly and the pots got too small for them. I had to change the pots to larger ones.
This kind of work is tiresome to me. I don't want to do this, but I have to do it. The picture shows 2 kinds of pots (small and large) and the plants. I got these large pots and soil at the nearest DIY store today.
During work, I remembered a funny story. When I was a university student more than two decates ago, I sometimes visited the laboratory of the pathological department. One day I saw the professor giving water to the plants in his office. I told him with smile that taking care of bonsai (live miniatures of plants) or pottery meant that the man was near the end of his life. Actually I didn't have any interst in the plants and pottery at that time. The professor was gently smirking at me.
He passed away a long time ago, but I felt that he is smirking at me again, "You too!"
I realized that time changes and the way of thinking changes too. I can't believe I do so much garden work!
(Vocabulary)
Fraxinus griffithii 《植物》シマトネリコ
pen 〔家畜の〕おり、囲い
surpass 【他動】～を上回る、超える、しのぐ、～に勝る
smirk ニヤニヤ笑う、作り笑いをする
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