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January 20, 2024

WINTER WONDERLAND

We didn’t get the snowbomb the forcasters thought would come our way, we missed it by a few kilometers, the whole of Belgium was covered in snow up to 25 cm, only a few villages in the north were spared and got noting of it. But the next day we got some, not much, just to cover the garden a bit and turned it into a Winter wonderland. As of tomorrow we’ll get 9 C° and the next days even higher.

Here are a few pictures I took yesterday.

A few plant tables.

Snow on dried flower stalks of the sedum spectabile.

Rose bottles.

Snow on thistles.

Snow on a wintergreen viburnum

Verbena bonariensis

Wintergreen bush with tiny leafs

I hope you are all ok, wherever you are, some will have snow and ice, others who live in Summer at the moment; enjoy your garden !

January 18, 2024January 18, 2024

IF I COULD UN-INVENT SOMETHING ?

Bloganuary writing prompt

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

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ALL SORTS OF WEAPONS

January 16, 2024

An interesting post. Posted by “rethinking life”.

New plants and fungi discovered…from: Stigmatis

January 16, 2024

A RARE SIGHT

Snow is a rare sight over here, many decades ago we had much more snow as it was a lot colder in Winter. Usually it melts the same day. I took a few pictures in my garden this morning but most of the snow is gone now but there is fresh snow on the way, it could be just a little bit but it can be quite a lot, we’ll see tomorrow. I would have loved to go outside and on the street but there was ice under the snow so it was dangerous, I didn’t want to risk my new knee.

Our beech hedge was covered in snow on the top.

My viburnum bodnantense was covered in pink blooms as we had a very soft Autumn, then all of a sudden the temperatures dropped to -6 C° overnight.

A view in the garden.

A few of my pots covered in snow.

A few of my plant tables.

I took all these pictures from the backdoor as the patio looked like a frozen lake.

Take care ! And enjoy your garden if you live in a warm climate.

January 7, 2024January 7, 2024

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January 7, 2024

SILENT SUNDAY

December 31, 2023December 31, 2023

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I WANT TO WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR, LOTS OF LOVE, LOTS OF JOY AND HAPPYNESS.

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023

MY FIGS

It is definitly Autumn now although the temperatures are still above normal. We had a LOT of rain and part of my country is under water. There are still a lot of leafs on the trees.

There is not much to see in my garden, I still have a few flowers, roses and fuchsia’s and my Skimmia Kew Green has many buds who are waiting for Spring.

Skimmia Kew Green has white flowers and normally it has green buds this time of the year but the buds are already white now. This shrub is by far the prettiest thing that I have in my garden at the moment.

My fig tree looks ugly at the moment, it needs a good cut but the best time to cut off branches of a fig tree is between Christmas and New Year if it is not freezing.

As you can see it is still full of figs, alas they won’t ripe anymore as for figs it is too cold.

Another view of my figs.

I cut my fig three down really hard every year as I don’t have the space to let it grow like it normally grows but each year it gives me a lot of juicy figs. And the birds in the garden loves them too. I just can’t keep them off.

I hope you are all ok and enjoying your garden.

Take care !

October 22, 2023

SILENT SUNDAY

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 !