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November 20, 2023November 20, 2023

MY FIGS

It is definitly Autumn now although the temperatures are still above normal. We had a LOT of rain and part of my country is under water. There are still a lot of leafs on the trees.

There is not much to see in my garden, I still have a few flowers, roses and fuchsia’s and my Skimmia Kew Green has many buds who are waiting for Spring.

Skimmia Kew Green has white flowers and normally it has green buds this time of the year but the buds are already white now. This shrub is by far the prettiest thing that I have in my garden at the moment.

My fig tree looks ugly at the moment, it needs a good cut but the best time to cut off branches of a fig tree is between Christmas and New Year if it is not freezing.

As you can see it is still full of figs, alas they won’t ripe anymore as for figs it is too cold.

Another view of my figs.

I cut my fig three down really hard every year as I don’t have the space to let it grow like it normally grows but each year it gives me a lot of juicy figs. And the birds in the garden loves them too. I just can’t keep them off.

I hope you are all ok and enjoying your garden.

Take care !

September 23, 2023

JUST A FEW PICTURES

I know it’s been a while since I posted something here but I have been busy making jam from the fruit in my garden. And lots of other things too as I finally am able to do my job after my operation. Also my camera broke down and I have a new one but I have to learn how to work with it. It is completely different from the other one. The manuel my husband printed for me is a 5 cm thick book on A4 format and printed on both sides……… I haven’t got very far yet !!

This was taken a few weeks ago, every thing was still green and lush.

My roses have done really well this year, most of them have rosebottles now and are turning orange but this tiny part of my rambler showed a few last roses. Rosa Seagull.

My Verbena bonariensis did well too this Summer, they are still in bloom.

Hibiscus siriacus flower.

Fuchsia magellanica, a winterhardy fuchsia, I have several bushes in my garden, they always bloom as if there is no tomorrow, such a gem in the garden.

My other fuchsia’s did well too, these ones go in the garage where it doesn’t freeze.

Have a great weekend !!

August 13, 2023

SILENT SUNDAY

July 16, 2023

SILENT SUNDAY

July 15, 2023

A FEW RECENT PICTURES

We have a weird Summer this year, the temperatures go up slowly to about 30 C° and then go down again to about 20 C° and then up again, once in a while we get rain or a storm. I am not complaining, I just think it is weird. When you see what is happening all over the world with fires and floods, extreem high temperatures and severe draughts I think we are the lucky ones.

This is the view when you park on our drive way. The bricks you see are from the garage, it has small leafed ivy growing on the walls. On the right you see one of my apple trees, on the left you have the fig tree, the pink flowers belong to the Albizzia jullibrissin . On the right behind the garage is my elder tree. And the green leafs at the back belong to the cherry laurel (prunus Laurocerasus). I love this view, gives me a bit of a jungle feeling.

One of the bird houses in the ivy.

A closer look at the Albizzia julibrissin , also called silk tree. What is not to love ?

As I still can’t walk longer than about 10 minutes I can’t go out to take pictures elsewhere

Have a great weekend, I hope you are all ok.

July 3, 2023July 3, 2023

RECENT PICTURES FROM MY GARDEN

These malvas are perennials , I’ve had them for several years and they bloom a long time.

This one is called ; calibrachoa Trixi, an annual, it is the first time I have this plant and so far it is blooming really well. They are also called mini petunia’s, this one is a half-double.

One of my many succulents in a pot in my garden, the ones in my garden are all winterhardy.

These succulents in a pot are hens and chicks (or sempervivum), as you all know. I showed it in my SILENT SUNDAY blog, I love to decorate my succulents in a pot.

Habe a great week !!

June 25, 2023June 25, 2023

SILENT SUNDAY

June 12, 2023June 12, 2023

DO YOU SMELL THE ROSES ???

My roses were a few weeks later in bloom than other years cos of the cold and wet Spring we had, but now they are in full bloom and my garden smells of roses at the moment.

Rambling rose, rosa Guirlande d’Amour, I have it in my garden for almost 25 years and each year it blooms like this, we do not feed it nor do we water it. What you see now is the first bloom, after we cut all the faded flowers, it starts blooming again but not with as many flowers as you can see here, but it blooms till the first heavy frost. This rambler doesn’t grow as tall as the other ramblers, and it’s thorns are not as sharp as those of the other ones.

Rambler rose Francis E.Lester, a lovely rose, we cut it back last Winter to a few inches and it has grown again to 5 or 6 meters now , you can see all the buds, so it blooms for a long time, in Autumn it gets lovely orange rose hips for the birds. You can’t see it here but the thorns on the stems are horribly sharp, you really need very strong gloves to handle it.

Rosa Francis E. Lester.

This is rambler rose Seagull, a close relative of the rose Francis E. Lester, this one has horrible thorns as well. Ramblers use their thorns to climb in trees and bushes, normal climbing roses need to be tied to a bow or something else, they have long flabby branches who need a bit of help to climb. This one gets orange rose hips too, their thorns are equally sharp as the one’s from Francis.

Mind you, if you don’t cut ramblers back each year they’ll grow 10 to 20 meters high in a tree or over bushes.

The birds love climbing roses as they use them to hide from predators and to nest in them and in Winter they provide food. The roses are buzzing with all sorts of bees at the moment.

How many roses do you have in the garden ?

Have a great week and enjoy your garden.

June 4, 2023

GOOD OLD FASHIONED ELDER

Elder or sambucus nigra is a fantastic big bush that provides flowers in Spring and edible berries later on. The flowers and berries only grow on wood that is 2 years old. You can cut the bush really short if you like but then you have no flowers and berries for that year. But it regrows very fast. You can use the flowers and the berries in jam , syrup , cakes, smoothies and all sorts of food, it helps to cure coughs and kills virusses. The birds and the bee’s love it too. So what is not to like ?

The flowers, aren’t they beautiful ?!!

Close up of a flower.

And the buds.

I can really recommend this bush for the garden, at least when your garden is big enough as it grows to 4 meters by 4 meters but by trimming every second year you can keep it lower and slimmer.

Have a great week !

May 28, 2023

GARDEN GERANIUMS

For all the people who don’t know garden geraniums ; they are fantastic plants and there are so many varieties you can choose off. They are reliable, they look stunning, they are winterhardy, they are cheap and soooo very easy, and the bee’s love them. I have a few in my garden.

If you are looking for good ground covering that grows everywhere, sun, shade, dry and moist, and surpresses weeds very well once they have been growing for about 3 years, they you need the Geranium macrorrhizum. He also doesn’t disappear in completely in Winter.

Flowers of the Geranium maccrorhizum, the plants flowers early in the year and flowers for a long time.

Another geranium, this is geranium sanguineum, a lot smaller than macrorrhezum but so cute and pretty, blooms for a very long time but disappears in Winter, but once the weather warms up, they are back again.