Saturday

Today, it was Saturday. It was a really nice day, not so cold and not so hot. Today Yuki was at home in the daytime. Unusually today's tennis lesson was cancelled.Though in the morning we had a guest, in the afternoon we decided to go driving to KARASUYAMA, which it takes 1 hour from here Utsunomiya by car.
There is a popular cafe with lots of flowers.

Actually it is a cafe & garden, but it's also a private house. The family open their garden.

The rose mainly to be climbing roses. (I'm not familiar with roses. These days I know that roses are classified into some groups by shapes; Hybrid Tea, Floribunda Rose,Miniature Rose, Climbing roses, and Spray roses.)

There are three members in this house, a couple and their mother. The husband is in the landscape business, of course mainly he takes care Japanese garden. On the other hand the wife loves roses. So little by little she planted roses in their garden. And at last she changed their Japanese garden into the rose garden, though some area still a Japanese garden with a wonderful Japanese pine tree.
And some area is for their mother who grows vegetables. They have a big garden.

The wife seemed to be busy. Fortunately we could talk with the husband.
He said --

Now it is the best season of our garden. You enjoy to smell roses. Actually I like a Japanese garden, there used to be a pond, a miniature hill, and so on. Now my wife occupied my garden. But it's not bad. Thanks to her lots of people come to see our garden and enjoy. It's fun. My mother also enjoys. Growing roses is a tough job. In winter the land here freeze. So before winter we need to care them a lot to protect them against cold winter.
Now they are tied to keep this shape. In winter we untied them and  prune them. It is also a tough job.
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Actually the wife was entertaining guests, the husband was pruning roses, and their mother who looks like being about 80 weeding. All of them were taking care of their garden.



There is a famous sake brewery in Karasuyama.On the way home we drop by it, of course to buy SAKE.