NEW SHOOTS ON TAXUS BUSH
EASY PLANT :GERANIUM
If you are looking for easy plants in your garden then think of the geranium family, also called crane’s bill’s.
I am talking about the garden geranium, not the pelargonium that a lot of people call geranium as well, the garden geranium is hardy, the pelargonium is not.
They come in all colours, hights and shapes, they tolerate all sorts of soil, sun or shade, they don’t care. You can have geraniums in bloom from Spring till end of Autumn. They also attract a lot of bees.They don’t disappear completely in Winter and that is a plus because then you know where they are. But they do selfseed, some more like others but personally I don’t care as they can be removed easily where you don’t want them.
I have taken pictures of the ones in bloom in my garden at the moment.
GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM SPESSART, white with dark red buds
GERANIUM MACRORHIZUM CZAKOR: soft purple
This geranium macrorrhizum comes in many colours and is a good ground cover that blocks all weeds.
GERANIUM PHAEUM : dark purple
I have more geraniums in my garden but they are not in bloom yet, I’ll show them later.
Have a great weekend !!
SILENT SUNDAY
FLOWERS OF PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS (cherry laurel, common laurel, English laurel
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
EUPHORBIA POLYCHROMA
IN BLOOM
Yesterday I noticed my mini apple tree was comming into bloom, it’s only buds so far but I expect the first flowers to open tomorrow.
Last year it only had a few blooms and no apples at all, this year it is completely covered in buds so I am hopefull.
This small apple tree is ideal for small spaces and can even be grown in a pot on your balcony, you can even make a hedge when you put a few in a row. The one I have is called ‘minitree Redlane’ and it doesn’t need another apple tree to get fruit.
But cos they are so pretty I bought another one last year, it had pretty white flowers last year and no apples but this year I can’t see any buds…maybe next year hey !
The Redlane has pretty dark pink buds.
MINI APPLE TREE REDLANE
Have a great week you all and don’t work too hard, enjoy the outside. Thanks for visiting, it’s much appreciated.
Please feel free if you have any questions, I’ll be happy to help you if I can.
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
AMELANCHIER (serviceberry, juneberry,sarvisberry, shadbush……..)
IF YOU LIKE TO MAKE SOUP
If you like to make your own soup there is one ingredient you really need to give your soup a taste boost and that is LOVAGE (levisticum officinale), by preference fresh lovage but you can dry it too for Winter as it disappears in late Autumn with the first frost. It is a tall herb, grows up to 2 meters high but you can keep it small by cutting off the highest stalks, new shoots keep comming up and they are the ones you use. When you buy it in Spring in a plantshop it looks like nothing and it is small, you can never guess it will grow 2 meters (6 to 7 feet)in a short time. You don’t need much of it, best is you do some experimenting and see what amount of it you like. I use a leaf about 25 cm ( about 10 inches) for 2 liters (half a gallon) of soup.
When I was working in the garden this afternoon I saw my lovage was comming up, the first thing I did was cutting the biggest piece for my stew, you can use it for all sorts of recipe’s of course but using it in soup is magic for your soup. It does get flowers, yellow flowers on a huge stalk but I always cut them cos they take a lot of power from the plant.
Have a great weekend and enjoy yourselves in the garden if it is warm enough for you !
SILENT SUNDAY
VIBURNUM TINUS IN BUD
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
SKIMMIA JAPONICA
Look what is growing in my garden.
We had lots of storms and huge amounts of rain and hail, thunder and lightening lately but once in a while for a short time the sun comes out and the sky is blue so when I went to the garden in a sunny spell I found that my herb garden was on the grow again and already useable. Yes !!!
ALLIUM SCHOENOPRASUMÂ (chives)
Chives also gets eddible flowers.
PETROSELINEUM CRISPUM (parsley)
ALLIUM URSINUM (ramson)
This herb gives pretty white eddible flowers who stay on the plant for a long time, the leafs are used in salads, soups and on sandwiches. After flowering it disappears underground until next Spring.
MELISSA OFFICINALIS (lemon balm)
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