Japanese Snowball Bush / おおてまり

My Golden Week officially ended today! I spent the entire holiday spring cleaning and gardening. I always get very excited around this time of the year, the weather warms up and my garden comes alive! Most of the flowering plants in my little garden are hues of white, blue, and purple. I am not sure if I should put “Flower Spectrum” as my catagory title. But I’ll leave it as that for the time being.
今日でワタシのGWは終わり!休日はずっと掃除とガーデニングをしていました。天候も暖かくなり、庭も活き活きするので、この時期になるとm毎年ワクワクします!ワタシの小さな庭の花壇は、白、青、紫で色とりどりになります。
This is my Japanese Snowball Bush, I am so happy to see this flowering, because I had such a hard time keeping the worms from eating it’s young leaves and buds from early spring. I needed to pick worms with tweezers everyday and twice a day for hours since Easter!
これは”おおてまり”。初春から、葉っぱやつぼみを虫が食い荒らすことから一生懸命守ってきたので、こうやって花が咲くのを見るのは本当に嬉しいです。

Can you spot the “enemy”?
敵がどこにいるか分かります?

After I got rid of the worm enemies. The flower buds were able to develop.
虫達を取り除いた後。つぼみが育ちました。

No more worms attacks by this stage. Though the holes on the leaves were reminders of my early battles.
この状態になると、もう虫の攻撃はありません。葉っぱに残った穴は、ワタシと虫との格闘の思い出。

The colour of the flowers changed from green to white as they grew bigger.
大きくなるにつれて、花は緑から白にその色を変えます。

At their peak!
そして今、花は満開!
Edited: May 14th, 2012





















