秋バラに期待 to expect it in autumn

今シーズンはバラを見る機会がなく残念でした。秋に期待です。

It was the regret that I could not have enough opportunity to see roses in spring. I expect that I have an opportunity to see many roses in autumn.

Burgandy Iceberg

キョウカノコ Japanese meadowsweet

咲き終わったレンギョウの葉の間から赤紫の花が顔を出しました。このレンギョウは、今年のはじめ頃に頂いてきたものです。多分、レンギョウに付いて来たキョウカノコが育って花を咲かせたようです。花が咲くまで、キョウカノコの存在に気が付きませんでした。

Flower of the purplish red emerged from the gap of leaves of forsythia which had finished blooming. I got this forsythia around the beginning of this year. Probably the Japanese meadowsweet which attached to forsythia grew up and bloomed. I did not notice existence of Japanese meadowsweet until the flower bloomed.

柿の実 fruit of persimmon

桃栗3年柿8年。命あるうちに実が成るかと思いつつ、1年ものの柿の苗を、庭に植えました。それから3年。まだ4歳の柿の木ですが、沢山の実をつけ始めました。どうやら間に合ったようです。

Peach and chestnut seeds take three years to bear fruit, persimmon takes eight.
I planted a one year old sapling of persimmon in my garden, while thinking about whether a tree bears fruit while I live. Three years passed since then, the four years old persimmon has begun to produce many fruits. It seem to achieve that in time.

シャクヤク herbaceous peony

切り花をいただきました。

シャクヤクの花は、ボタンとよく似ていますが、シャクヤクは草、ボタンは木、という違いがあります。
「立てばシャクヤク、座ればボタン・・・」とは、女性の姿を花に例えた言葉ですが、花の姿形をよく表した表現だと思います。

This is cut flowers that I got from my acquaintance.
The flower of the herbaceous peony resembles the flower of the peony, but there is a difference between them, a herbaceous peony is a grass and a peony is a tree.
"Standing style is as herbaceous peony, sitting as peony,..." is the phrase that liken the figure of the woman to a flower. I think that it is good expression to describe figures of these two flowers.

In English, They merely call both of them "peony". To classify these two I put a word of "herbaceous" on the grass.

herbaceous peony

peony

パンダか犬か a panda or a dog

君はパンダですか犬ですか。
これは愛護ですか虐待ですか。

Are you a panda or a dog?
Is this protection or abuse?

ギンリョウソウ monotropastrum humile (D.Don) H.Hara

白色をした不思議な物体は、葉緑素を持たない寄生植物で、別名ユウレイタケとも呼ばれます。

This white mysterious object is a parasitic plant which does not have chlorophyl, and is called a ghost mushroom as another name in Japan.

米ヌカ除草 herbicide effect of rice bran

田植えの直後に、水田に米ヌカを撒くと、雑草の成長を抑えることができるそうです。
その理由は次の二つです。
・米ヌカが太陽光を遮る
・米ヌカが腐敗し、土壌表面が酸欠状態になる
なお、肥料としての効果は期待できないそうです。

It is said that scattering rice bran into paddy field right after rice transplanting inhibits the growth of weed.
There are two reasons for that.
・Rice bran blocks the light of the sun.
・Decaying of rice bran make topsoil oxygen-deprived.
In addition, it does not seem to be able to expect effect as manure.