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April 24, 2023

MY FUTURE APPLES

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 !

April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

IT IS DEFINITELY SPRING NOW.

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 !

February 18, 2023

AND SO IT BEGINS

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.

February 8, 2023

BIRDFEEDER

One of the birdfeeders in my garden, the birds love it.

January 17, 2023

Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful…

This is spot on !

Purplerays

“It is easier to build strong
children than to repair broken
men.”

🧸 Frederick Douglass

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January 16, 2023

QUOTE

WHEN WE LOOSE SOMEONE WE LOVE,
WE MUST LEARN NOT TO LIVE WITHOUT THEM,
BUT TO LIVE WITH THE LOVE
THEY LEFT BEHIND.

It’s not mine but I like it.

January 8, 2023January 8, 2023

LET THERE BE PEACE

THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN A WAR

December 11, 2022

LAST APPLE ON MY TREE

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 !!

November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

A FEW OLDIES TO CHEER YOU UP

Now that Summer is definitely over I wanted to cheer you up with a few old pictures ; flowers in bloom and the sun shining.

It’s a dark, wet, cold Sunday afternoon and I was browsing through my photographs and I noticed that those bright flower pictures sheered me up a bit, so I hope they will sheer you up too.

Have a great week !

October 30, 2022

LAST PELARGONIUM FLOWERS

This is my last pelargonium flowerstalk of this year, they have been flowering from May and they will last for another week, maybe two. They are not frost resistand. We have had extreme Autumn weather with high temperatures, 10 to 15 C° higher than normal for this time of the year, that is why they are in bloom for so long. I did water them well when it was so hot in Summer, that helped of course. I’ll try to keep them till next year by putting them in my unheathed greenhouse. If we get a soft Winter they will manage.

Have a great week !