Last week, I went to Claude Monet’s Garden.
However, I didn’t go to France but to Shikoku in southwestern part of Japan.
The garden locates in Kitagawa Village, Kochi prefecture.
The climate is quite different from that of France, where most of his masterpieces had been drawn.
Still, the gardeners are trying to understand his favorites and have reproduced the scenery of France.
The garden consists of three sections: Water Garden, Flower Garden, and Garden of Bordighera.
In Water Garden there is a pond with various colored lotus flowers floating.
In summer blue lotus flowers bloom, which are impossible to grow in France.
This is Flower Garden.
A gardener said there are more than 1,600 kinds of plants.
In Garden of Bordighera various tropical plants are growing.
This summer Japan entirely has been suffered by heat wave. The temperature reached 39 degrees Celsius in some places. The earth is about to boiling actually.
Under this climate, the gardeners have to work harder to keep plants.
I hope everyone find comfort with various plants under this unusual climate.
