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	<title>Japanese Garden</title>
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	<description>Diary of an amateur gardener's vegetable patch in Kisarazu city, Japan</description>
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		<title>Local Japanese gardens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday I visited a local seaside park facing the Tokyo Bay. The local newsletter had featured an announcement that a park called the Sodegaura Kaihin Park would hold a festival with the first 200 entrants to the park presented with plants. I was pretty excited and hoped to find lots of flowering plants, maybe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanesegarden.wordpress.com&blog=3597122&post=863&subd=japanesegarden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to my poor li’l garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I could hear my plants speak, they would probably be yelling at me to pull out those weeds that were engulfing them, draining away their nutrition and cutting out sunlight! Yes, I returned to my garden in Japan last week; my flowering plants engulfed by tall grasses, some of my herbs missing and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanesegarden.wordpress.com&blog=3597122&post=813&subd=japanesegarden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visit to Sagar Upavan in Mumbai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the last day of my two-month stay in Mumbai, I decided to visit a park in Mumbai. Internet searches pointed to the Bombay Port Trust Garden, called Sagar Upavan in Colaba. I hired a taxi and invited my elderly mother and sister for a drive and a stroll among trees to which they promptly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanesegarden.wordpress.com&blog=3597122&post=796&subd=japanesegarden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates from Mumbai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m still in Mumbai and in my absence, my friend Utiyama-san has sent me photos of the cuttings that he’s looking after for me. I’m thrilled to find that all of them have grown rapidly, some with flowers already! Thank you so much, Utiyama-san.

Here’s a photo showing Coleus cuttings that have grown up wonderfully well. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanesegarden.wordpress.com&blog=3597122&post=756&subd=japanesegarden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparations before leaving on a trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am off to India for at least a month, and have started my preparations to make it easier for my wife and daughter to care for my garden while I am away.
Firstly, I handed over all my cuttings (lantana, fig, hydrangea, gardenia, coleus, yesterday, today and tomorrow and many others) to my friend Utiyama, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanesegarden.wordpress.com&blog=3597122&post=727&subd=japanesegarden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fragrance and Bonsai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A garden with fragrance is what I am aiming for. Next year, I hope to have next-door neighbors coming out of their houses to smell the sweet fragrance of flowers in my garden. Incidentally, I planted some sweet alyssum seeds sent by my niece in the US a couple of months ago and here are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanesegarden.wordpress.com&blog=3597122&post=702&subd=japanesegarden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melon, morning glory and mosquitoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The water melon we had yesterday at home was delicious – I just collected the little black seeds, threw them into a vinyl pot and pulled some dirt over them. In about two days, what a pleasant surprise!
 
Water melon seedlings – see the black seed cover still sticking to the leaf!
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		<title>cuttings galore!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe I have caught Cuttingitis, a disease that afflicts many avid gardeners. I must have been bitten by the bug around March or so this year, when winter slowly gives way to spring. The symptoms of this disease are:

You break into a cold sweat imagining the kids’ basketball landing on your freshly planted rose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanesegarden.wordpress.com&blog=3597122&post=633&subd=japanesegarden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June blooms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The flowers in my garden in June this year have blown me away – so much so that I decided to devote a special post to them! Undoubtedly, the lily takes the prize with its mesmerizing beauty, subtle fragrance, and splendid colors.
 
Lily

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		<title>Corn, peanuts and yam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ After returning from a four-day family trip to Malaysia, I found rapid growth in most of the vegetables and flowers. I harvested potatoes, shungiku (edible chrysanthemum) and broccoli and promptly replaced these with yam, corn, green pepper and peanuts (yes, Chiba Prefecture, where I stay grows lots of peanuts so why not try them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=japanesegarden.wordpress.com&blog=3597122&post=551&subd=japanesegarden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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