October 1998 : This month flower
Mieko Nagano: Oita city, Japan
When we return home in mid July after two-month travel to the US, my garden was completely covered with thick green. It was the most flourishing season in the year. I could barely find the borderlines of the kitchen garden and flowerbeds. Since then we have worked hard in trimming the tree fence and removing weeds, but not in planting new flowers. In that wild-like garden, herbs have started to shoot from the bulbs in the ground. They are now making our eyes pleasant with tiny flowers here and there.
A small red-brick-made flowerbed beside the open garage grows a stalk of pineapple sage in the strong sun of the mid- autumn. It holds many deep red tiny flowers on the top. It is very pleasant to count the number of flowers increasing day by day. Beside the stalk is a thick bush of lemon grass that enhances the color of the pineapple sage. Some of my friend praise the sage and are happy to have a cutting of it. I hope the cutting will take root on a new soil.
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