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August 26, 2024August 26, 2024

HELLO AGAIN

Sorry for the long silence but I haven’t been able to take a lot of new photo’s, it’s not really a good garden year cos of the weather, it was either too hot or too wet, and all the heavy rain ruined a lot of my flowers. I do hope next year will be better. I am also trying to make the garden easier to maintain. I did manage to take a few new pictures though.

Garden geranium, one of my favorites

This hydrangea sits next to the pond, as you can see, some of the leafs are burned from the sun.

Crocosmia lucifer

Dipladenia, also called Mandevilla, a climber I got as a gift, it is in a pot as it is not winterhardy here but it performs well.

My passiflora caerulea performs well as the flowers stay open just for one day. there are new flowers all the time, it grows very fast. This one is one of the most winterhardy passionflowers.

This flower is from my albizia julibrissin, the flowers are normally pink but this one is white, I don’t know why.

I hope you al had a better Summer. Take care and enjoy your garden whenever you can.

July 28, 2024

SILENT SUNDAY

July 14, 2024

SILENT SUNDAY

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.

May 1, 2024

PICTURE OF TODAY

Flower of the anthurium plant, it is a big waxy flower that blooms for a long time. They come in many colours.

Have a great day all !

January 18, 2024January 18, 2024

IF I COULD UN-INVENT SOMETHING ?

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January 16, 2024

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January 7, 2024January 7, 2024

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October 21, 2023

BEWARE OF THE RUSSIAN VINE

Russian vine or Fallopia Baldschuanica is a climber but it grows about 10 meters (390 inches) a year and every little shoot or branch that hits the ground forms a new plant so before you know it it will have taken over your whole garden, your heges and trees included. I have it in my garden cos my husband needs it for his birds, he gives them fresh leafs every day, and it gives beautiful flowers. In Winter it looks completely dead.

I took some pictures to show you what I mean.

This is the culprit I am talking about, you can see it here in bloom growing on top of my beech hedge.

The flowers here are already over the top, it is late October now, normally the flowers look more like white plumes.( see picture above)

Here you can see it forms a new plant.

This is a view of the aviary that is completely covered by the russian vine, when the leafs are gone my husband cuts all the wood down to a few inches but in Spring it comes back to life and GROWS !!! I think I can say it is invasive !!!

Once you have it in your garden it is hard to get rid of.

Have a great weekend all !