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季節が進むのは早いもので、気が付けば5月に突入してしまいました。つれづれ日記をもう少し頻度良く更新しなければ、、、。と反省しつつ、久方ぶりの日記を綴ります。植物と共に仕事をしている私たちにとって、春は大忙し。植替え、施肥、剪定、潅水、そして棚場作りと作業は目白押し。特に棚場づくりはハードな作業で、春に単管で棚場を組み、冬は豪雪対策で全てバラして仕舞います。植物達もまた同じように、冬は施設にしまい、春は屋外に展開します。まるで深呼吸するように行われる10万鉢の大移動。その傍らでは、成長して鉢が窮屈になった木々が「早く植え替えしてちょうだい!」という顔で静かに訴えかけてくるわけです。しかし、ふと我に返れば忙しいのは人の心だけであって、自然のリズムは穏やかなもの。美しい木々の芽吹きや、発芽の様子に癒されつつ、心を整え、日々邁進しています。

The seasons move quickly, and before I know it, May has arrived. It has been a long time since I have kept a diary. For those of us who work with plants, spring is a very busy time. Repotting, fertilizing, pruning, irrigating, and building shelves are just a few of the tasks that we have to do. In the spring, we build shelves with single pipes, and in the winter, we tear them all down to make room for heavy snowfalls. In the same way, the plants are stored in the facility in the winter and moved outdoors in the spring. The 100,000 pots are moved as if taking a deep breath. The trees, which have grown so large that their pots have become cramped, silently plead, “Hurry up and replant them! But when I come back to myself, I realize that it is only the human mind that is busy, and the rhythms of nature are calm. The beautiful budding of the trees and the sprouting of the buds soothe me, and I try to keep my mind in order as I go about my daily activities.
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