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July 7, 2024July 7, 2024

GARDEN PICTURES

Here’s a peek in my garden, you can see how green everything is. The red flowers are crocosmia, also called montbretia. The picture of the red flowers under this text are a closer look at the crocosmia.

This is part of our front garden, I used to have more plants there but it was getting too much so we covered the front garden with small stones and a few very big ones. Now I have decorated it with a big pot of hardy fuchsia’s and I am going to plant rock garden plants to cover the small stones in time.

A few minutes later it was pouring with rain.

This is a parking we have in front of our house.

Same parking a few moments later.

Have a great week and take care ! Enjoy your garden whenever you can.

July 2, 2024

A FEW RECENT PICTURES

We still have no real summerweather, the temperatures are still going up and down and we still get rain quite often so most of the garden is still green, it’s beautiful but I miss my flowers. The roses had lots of flowers but the rain ruined them in no time. Some days are really hot and then it ends with a big bang and lots of rain and flooding all over Europe. But that is better than the countries who get bushfires and lots of people die cos of the horrible heath, sometimes even over 50C° !!

That said, here are just a few pictures I took this afternoon.

Crocosmia Lucifer, also called Montbretia with lots of buds.

Here the flowers are opening further.

This is my hydrangea, when you look close you can see that a lot of leafs have sunburn as the temperatures can vairy a lot from day to day.

Here you have a closer look at the hydrangea, butterfly included (lol)

This picture was made a few days earlier, one of my garden geraniums. Garden geraniums are always performing well, no matter the weather. They come in many colors and shapes and for me they are the best and easiest garden plants.

Another picture I took a few days ago is a picture of the cucumber herb, I just have them for their beautiful color and they are so easy to grow.

How is your Summer going ? And your garden ?

Take care !

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024

MY GARDEN IS LUSH AND GREEN

What with all the rain we have been having for many months my garden looks lush and green now, most flowers are far behind.

On the left you see a viburnum, on the right is my rosa guirlande d’amour

In the back you see my goatsbeard, it is not in bloom yet, the garden geraniums (macrorrhizum) are performing well.

The biggest green spot is from viburnum tinus, on the right is a laurel, on the left you see a bit of my syringa meyeri, a small lilac bush.

This is sedum spurium, winterhardy and makes a lovely green carpet.

This is our pond, completly overgrown, the plants just exploded, they seem to love all the rain.

Another garden geranium, geranium sanguineum, a small geranium that performs well.

They are not expecting good weather any time soon, the snails are having a party every night, for me that is the biggest worry, they have ruined a lot of my seedlings. But there are worse problems in the world, I feel for the people who’s house and everything in it is ruined, for the people who are trying to survive in the many wars all over the globe, who lost their kids and relatives….

Take care and enjoy your garden.

April 24, 2024

QUOTE

LEARN FROM YESTERDAY

DREAM OF TOMORROW

BUT

LIVE TODAY

April 21, 2024

SILENT SUNDAY

April 15, 2024

A FLOWER FOR YOU

A WHITE CAMELIA FRESH FROM MY GARDEN.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK !

March 3, 2024

SILENT SUNDAY

February 12, 2024

A FLOWER TO CHEER YOU UP.

DAHLIA

I hope this flower does the trick. Have a great week all !

January 20, 2024

WINTER WONDERLAND

We didn’t get the snowbomb the forcasters thought would come our way, we missed it by a few kilometers, the whole of Belgium was covered in snow up to 25 cm, only a few villages in the north were spared and got noting of it. But the next day we got some, not much, just to cover the garden a bit and turned it into a Winter wonderland. As of tomorrow we’ll get 9 C° and the next days even higher.

Here are a few pictures I took yesterday.

A few plant tables.

Snow on dried flower stalks of the sedum spectabile.

Rose bottles.

Snow on thistles.

Snow on a wintergreen viburnum

Verbena bonariensis

Wintergreen bush with tiny leafs

I hope you are all ok, wherever you are, some will have snow and ice, others who live in Summer at the moment; enjoy your garden !

January 16, 2024

A RARE SIGHT

Snow is a rare sight over here, many decades ago we had much more snow as it was a lot colder in Winter. Usually it melts the same day. I took a few pictures in my garden this morning but most of the snow is gone now but there is fresh snow on the way, it could be just a little bit but it can be quite a lot, we’ll see tomorrow. I would have loved to go outside and on the street but there was ice under the snow so it was dangerous, I didn’t want to risk my new knee.