花桃も 未来の開花 我が喜び

　写真の植物は大きな「源平枝垂れ桃」の種が零れて生えたもので、未だ高さは５０cmほどの幼木です。幹が曲がっているのは生えて１年経過した頃、私が紐で縛って形作りました。もう、このままの樹形で年々大きくなるでしょう。

　源平枝垂れとはその名が示す通り、１本の樹であっても花の色が紅白に咲き分けます。しかも、八重咲ですから、数年後に大きくなれば樹形と色彩の両方が鑑賞でき、私たち人間を楽しませてくれるでしょう。早速、来春の４月には咲きますので、お近くの方は見にいらしてください。

Dear my weblog friends overseas

 The plant in the photo is a sapling of large "Bicolored weeping peach". The seed has spilled and grown. She is still a young tree with a height of about 50 cm. The trunk was bent by me when she was a year old. I tied it with a string to shape it. The tree shape will grow as it is year by year.

 As the name suggests, bicolored weeping is a single tree, but her flowers bloom in red and white. Moreover, since it is double-flowered, if it grows up in a few years, we will be able to appreciate both the tree shape and the colors which will entertain us. It will bloom in April next spring, so please come visit me if you are near including NZ.

【親の源平枝垂れです。】・・・拡大すると色彩が音楽のハーモニーのようです。