SEMPERVIVUM FLOWER
SILENT SUNDAY
PELARGONIUM
TODAY IN THE GARDEN
It’s a lovely sunny and warm day and of course I took some pictures for you to see.
THE BUD OF A CLEMATIS, I DON’T KNOW WHICH ONE BUT IT WILL BE DARK BLUE WITH YELLOW STAMENS
CLEMATIS ETOILE VIOLETTE, A VERY EASY AND LONG FLOWERING CLEMATIS OF THE VITICELLA FAMILY
HONEYSUCKLE, CLEMATIS AND A SMALL LEAF IVY ARE CLIMBING TOGETHER ON THE GARAGE WALL
THE FIGS ARE DOING GREAT
I LOVE THE BACKSIDE OF A FIG LEAF
A WOOD PIDGEON MADE HER NEST IN MY CLIMBING GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR ROSE
SEDUM ACRE IN A POT
AND LOADS OF BERRIES ON A SPINELESS HOLLY (ilex aquifolium J.C.Van Tol), THE BIRDS WILL LOVE THEM WHEN THEY ARE RIPE
Have a fab weekend and enjoy your garden !
MY NEWEST ADDITION
WHITE OLEANDER
I finally found a white oleander, it is a small one but I hope it’ll grow. All I could find in the plant centers were red or pink oleanders but I love white flowers just a little more than other colours. Oleander is a potplant in my country.
Have a great day !
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
ARUNCUS DIOICUS ( goats beard)
SILENT SUNDAY
CLIMBING HYDRANGEA( hydrangea petiolaris)
LADY IN WHITE
At the moment my climbing rose GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR looks like a lady in a weddingdress who wears a lovely perfume. My whole garden smells of her !
THIS IS HOW SHE LOOKED LIKE ABOUT LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AGO
SHE STARTED SLOW, ONLY A FLOWER HERE AND THERE
A FEW DAYS LATER SHE LOOKED LIKE THIS
AND HERE SHE IS IN FULL BLOOM LOOKING LIKE A REAL BRIDE
HERE YOU GET A CLOSER LOOK AT HER BLOOMS
Have a great weekend all and enjoy your garden if you can, it will make you completely zen. Thanks for visiting !
Please sign this petition!
PLEASE PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION FOR THE DOGS THAT WILL BE EATEN BY PEOPLE !!!!!!
S. Korea is the only country in the world with large-scale, commercial dog meat farms.
Frankly, I wasn’t planning to publish a post today. But then in came an email from John Zande, he of the blog The Superstitious Naked Ape, and this is what I read: “Paul, hi… Really good news. The following email links to a petition supporting a bill that will end the dog meat trade in Korea. I know you’ll want to sign it. Share it around, too.”
John then linked to a petition over on the Lady Freethinkers blog.
Jean and I have signed the petition and now I am republishing in full what you can read if you go across to that petition page.
ooOOoo
SIGN: PASS NEW BILL TO BAN HORRIFIC DOG MEAT FARMS IN S. KOREA
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PORTRET OF A TREE
I have only a few tree’s in my garden as my garden is not so big. The biggest tree I have is a European oak tree, it was only a few inches high when we planted it at the end of our garden. Then we have an Albizzia which is my favorite and last but not least we turned an Amelanchier lamarckii bush (snowy mespilus) into a tree which grew over the years to a tree that is about 4 meters ( 14 feet) in width and about 6 meteres (19 feet) in height. The perfect tree on one condition : do not plant it close to your terrace !!!
In Winter it gives a nice skeleton in which we hang birdfeeders of all sorts.
In Spring it is a terrible nuissance as a big part of it hangs over our terrace, first we get the beautiful flowers which attract an enormous amount of bees,but the peels of the buds fall on the terrace, then the flowers fade and fall off while the leafs are comming up, the new leafs are fresh and beautiful but the peels of the buds and the fallen flowers give a big mess.
Really soon after all that the berries are growing, at first they are green and then they turn red and in the end purple when they are ripe and then the feast begins.The birds go crazy for the ripe berries but at the same time they eat the berries they drop something else on our terrace…
Autumn comes soon for the Amelanchier and it gets beautiful coloured leafs before they all fall down, and yes, on our terrace.
So what I want to tell you about this tree is : do NOT plant it close to your terrace !! For the rest it is a beautiful tree for a not so big garden, it attracts a lot of bees and birds and it is even beautiful to look at in Winter, when you put one on your lawn or between hardy plants and small bushes the mess you get otherwise on your terrace turns to fertilizer for your lawn or else for the other plants, a win-win situation !
AMELANCIER LAMARCKII (snowy mespilus) IN FULL BLOOM
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE BLOOMS
AS YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE A LOT OF BERRIES
THEY LOOK A BIT LIKE LITTLE CHERRIES
Have a great day and enjoy your garden ! Thanks for visiting.
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
DIGITALIS
GWENNIESGARDENWORLD 
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