冬の間に買った原種系デイジー「アルムの空」が鉢植えで弱り始めていました。この株を買った当時に見たYouTube動画では、育て方の注意点として「鉢植えで管理する」と、ある園芸店の店長が話していましたが、失うものはないと思い試しに地植えにしてみたら（写真左）復活してきました。対して、写真右のタラゴンは相変わらず成長の兆しが見えません。
The wild daisy that I bought during winter was losing its vigour. When I first bought this plant, I checked on the YouTube how to look after it. A plant shop owner was saying that we should keep it in the pot so as to move it to a shade during summer. However, seeing the plant getting weaker by the day, I felt I had little to lose and planted it in the ground (left). It has rebounded and the plant itself is almost double its original size.
株が太ったので花数も増えています。毎日新しい蕾が上がってきて翌日には開花するので、花が絶えることはありません。ラベルの通りこれで秋まで咲くのなら非常に有難い植物です。
As the whole plant grew larger, I got more flowers. Every day, I see new flower buds coming up and opening the following day. This plant has been blooming constantly since I bought it a few months ago. According to the label, the flowering season lasts up to the start of autumn. If true, what a valuable plant to have.
矮性ラズベリーのルビービューティの花が咲き始めました。
The dwarf raspberry, Ruby Beauty, has started flowering.
どの株にもこの開花状態です。花数は極めて少ないので豊産性にとは言えないけど、場所を取らないし樹形が乱れないので気に入っています。
On each stem, a few flowers are open like these. You do not get many flowers on this variety, therefore not exactly a prolific producer, but they take up little space and there is no need to trim them to keep them in shape.
来年用の新芽が出ています。
New shoots coming out for next year.
去年、春ジオンのピンクの花が咲くのが可愛いので自分で育てようと空き地のを拉致してきたら、家の前で出くわした近所の娘さんがそれを見たとたんに「貧乏草」と呼んだのでショックを受けました。それでも個人的に好きな花なので、道からは見えない玄関近くの一角で育てています。
Last year, I brought home some daisy fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus) from a field. The flowers were in deep pink and I wanted to grow them at home, so I plucked a few of them before the Ward Office people came to get rid of weeds. When I came home, a neighbour's daughter called it 'poor man's flower' (apparently, it means that the flowers can be found even in a poor person's garden). I was shocked, but I still love them. So, I keep them away from the eyes of passersby, at the deep end of my garden.
この赤味の強いのが好みです。
I particularly like these deep pink ones.
この株の花は変わっていて、青味がかった薄紫色です（写真では変わりづらいかも）。
This one is unusual in that the flowers are blueish lilac colour. (my camera does not do justice).
春ジオンは野草なので、うちでも自然発生はするのですが、白っぽい花ばかりです。
Since daisy fleabanes are 'weeds', they do grow naturally in my place, too. However, they are white flowers.
家の北側通路で今年も何本か出ていますが、夕方にしか日が当たらないので開花にはまだ時間がかかりそうです。
There are quite a few coming out on the North side of my house. Since this foot path gets direct sunlight only in the late afternoon, the fleabanes are still too young and flowering will be delayed until May.
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ブルーベリー入りのヨーグルトケーキを焼きました。ブルーベリーはカナダ産の冷凍ものですが、大粒で香りが良いので気に入っていて、年に何回かジャムをつくるのにも利用しています。
I made a yogurt cake with frozen blueberries this afternoon. The blueberries are frozen, from Canada, and I make jam with them several times every year. They are quite large and have really nice scent.
アイシング用にブルーベリーの果肉を濾したものを粉砂糖に混ぜました。見かけがグロい？
I added sieved blueberries into powder sugar to make icing - a bit startling appearance.
重たい果物をケーキに混ぜ込むときは、薄力粉ではなく強力粉をつかうと果物が沈まずに済みます。
Since the berries are heavy, I used plain flower so that the berries would not sink to the bottom of the baking tin.
見かけはどうとして、味はとても美味しかったです。
It may not look very inviting, but it tasted delicious.
