
SILENT SUNDAY


about my garden, art and travelling, nature ,photography and a few words of wisdom

I have two apple trees in my garden, they are tall and narrow; they are created for small gardens and they give me many apples, the flowers look the same but the apples are different. You can even plant them on a balcony in a big pot and keep it small.

This is a small piece of my youngest and smallest apple tree, last year it didn’t have one apple but by the looks of it I’ll get plenty this year. These trees struggle a bit for a few years after planting but it gave me apples already, just not last year. Gardening teaches you to have patience sometimes.

This is the biggest and gives me lots of apples each year.
I love to have a bit of fruit in my garden, I have a huge fig tree and a monster of a blue grape vine who lives in my greenhouse.
What fruit have you in your garden ?
Have a great week all !
We had to wait rather long for Spring this year, the weather went up and down like a yoyo. It was wet and cold with a better day once in a while.
As I am not mobile at the moment I can only take pictures from the patio at the moment.

This was my june berry (amelanchier) last week, just the buds were out.

This is the same june berry ( amelanchier) today

Dwarf rhododendron Moerheim

Pieris Japonica

Skimmia japinica Kew green.
For people who have only a tiny garden or balcony, a skimmia is the ideal small bush, the flowers appear in Autumn and it starts flowering early in the year and it attracks lots of bee’s, it is wintergreen and winterhardy up to -10 C°. There are several different colours of flowers. But you need a male and a female plant to get flowers.

Close up of a skimmia flower.
Take care and enjoy your Spring !
When we woke up this morning the garden looked completely white, snow white. We don’t get snow often and usually it doesn’t stay for long as the ground is not froozen. A few hours after I took a few pictures of my garden the snow was gone. But my garden looked very pretty in white.

A snow covered viburnum Bodnantense.

June berry orAmelanchier

Daffodils, TETE-A-TETE

Coconut for the birds.
Take care !

Snowdrops are the first to bloom, always, at least in my garden. I had to devide a big clup of snowdrops last year as they were growing too close together so I took a few to plant in a pot to put on my terrace table to get a closer look.
Have a great weekend.


MY GARDEN COVERED IN SNOW A FEW YEARS AGO.
As it is very cold here at the moment, even freezing during the day, the garden looks very pretty, so I took my camera and had a walk through my garden. It is only frost, not snow.








This apple is the last one on my apple tree, mind you it is half eaten by the birds on the other side but it refuses to fall on the ground. All the leafs are gone but you can already see the new buds for next year. Nature is wonderful, isn’t it !
Have a great week, a Merry Christmas and a fabulous New Year !!

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