It has been a extremely busy spring, but finally it started to slow down. I have been working 6 days, sometimes 7 days a week! At least I enjoy what I do, so it wasn't like a torture for me. Just the physical exhaustion. Anyhow, it has been really cold this spring so that we are approximately three weeks behind the normal blooming time. If you happen to visit the garden in the next few weeks, you MUST check out our Meconopsis Meadow. The blue petals are just unbelievably beautiful. This is the plant I fell in love with when I did my internship in Scotland in 2008.
I even brought back the seeds to AR, but there was no way they would have survived the hot summer in AR. They like cool summer. I was walking through the nursery today and realized a robin was loudly making noise at me. Surely enough, I found there eggs in their nest on Rhododendron falconeri branch. These eggs were so little and so warm. I can't wait to see them hatch!
忙しい春だったけれど、ようやく落ち着いてきました。週6日、時には7日仕事してました!少なくとも、仕事は楽しいので拷問ではなかったけれど。肉体的疲労だけ。この春はずっと涼しかったので、例年の開花時期よりも約3週間遅れてます。もしここ数週間のうちにガーデンに来る機会があれば、ヒマラヤの青いケシは必見です。青い花びらは、信じられないくらい美しいです。この花は、私がスコットランドでインターンシップをしていた時に一目ぼれした花。種を持って帰ってきたけど、アーカンソーの暑い夏を生き延びるわけもなく。ヒマラヤの青いケシは涼しい夏でないと生き延びません。
今日、グリーンハウスをチェックしてたら、コマドリがピーピーやけに騒がしくしてました。思ったとおり、石楠花の枝に去年からあった巣に、卵を発見!卵は親指くらいの大きさで小さく、あったかかった。孵化するのが待ちきれない!
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