In the Garden

We have a little garden here in Japan, which we haven't done very much in. It was quite over grown when we moved in, but we did do quite a bit of weeding, but have not made a lot of impression on it. However, Mr. Nakanishi took it upon himself to be our gardener, and did work on it when he came down for Church services from Nobeoka each week. He grew vegetables in the main, although there were flowers from time to time as well.



This was one June day a couple of years ago. In the photo on the left is an orange tree. A fig tree is next to it. Then to the right is a camellia bush.

Now Hironori is working in the garden a little, and is growing some Japanese radishes (Daikon), and some beans.

The organge tree, not the usual oranges, but more like a natsu mikan, which is closer to a grapefruit in it's taste a little, had lots of flower buds, and we were hopeful for a lot more fruit this year, but the fruit which initially began to develop has dropped, so there is very little on the tree at the moment. Will have to see how many we get when they ripen. The kinkan (kimquat}tree is a mass of bloom at the moment, so that could be good news for those that like these little round orange coloured fruit.

The other plants that have done well this year are the mombresia, which seems to have spread a lot this year. Also the melastoma (Nobotan in Japanese) plant that we got from Michelle from Australia when she was here, has really developed into quite a big bush, in spite of having been cut back last year. It should flower well when the blooms appear.