More garden pictures
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janestarzSince the garden doesn't resemble the March pictures in the slightest, I have decided to upload more pictures. The neighbours must, by now, get used to me crouching, belly-gliding, sitting on my ass and lying on my back in the garden, trying to get a camera in at the most ungodly angles.
This is, in part, to blame on the cats who just love to hide:
More behind the cut!
Please note that for those of you who do not speak Latin but can read Dutch, I'll include a list of species at the bottom of the post.
Between the house and the garden there's a little terrace and our climbing roses over a PVC trellis. When we left for Basel, the yellow rose (the largest one) was still in buds. When we returned, it bloomed magnificently. It's already past its peak in this picture:
Our Lisa, who is growing more elderly by the day, adores the outdoors. Here she is with the overview picture:
A small recap: my garden is a feeble attempt at permaculture that needs a lot of work before it works. Some of the plants were planted last year, some this year, and it's in part 'moes' (edible plants cultivated purely for the purpose of eating off them), 'bees' and 'etc.'
The path is being overgrown, or so we hope to achieve, by a moss (Sagina subulata) which is very fluffy. So far so good, but it might take another year until it's in a perfect state. Also, the Sagina is very good at showing up in the most unlikely places all over your garden. Flamethrowers might be required at some point.
Walking from the house towards the shed, as the above picture was taken, the garden is divided roughly into three parts. To the left of the path in the 'etc.' category we have strawberries, a large conifer shading over the rain barrel (which is leaking after all, the 15 cm it had accumulated yesterday have all disappeared miraculously), some thymes and mints, and various flowers. Echinacea (which hates me for having a cold winter), some Pelargonium that was a late addition, the catnip and the Achillea millefolium that I stole from a road side while on a rampage with my trusty trowel last year. One of the newest very photogenic species is the Digitalis Purpurea, which vies with the Veronica Longifolium for the prize of being Best and Beautifullest Flower Stalk:
To the right of the path in the 'bees' department is the compost barrel, followed by another poisenous stalk that I don't know the name of. It is flanked by the courgette, several Pelargoniums that were on sale last year, the hyssop, the Sedum Telephium and a Buddleja that shares the Echinacea's view on things (grrr, frost). This little corner, with some of the plants from across the path, are there for the bees and butterflies, and already loud buzzings can be heard, and it's not just cats purring. (Only the Pelargoniums are in bloom so far, so the real fun will start in a few weeks!)
There are also oodles of mock strawberries keeping the soil mostly weed-free until the forest strawberry can move in and take over.
In the 'moes' category we have mostly vegetable plants. The beans are still complaining that it's too cold, and the tomatoes are busy getting pollinated (this sounds more dirty if you take into consideration it's plant-porn). My peas are getting pretty big so far, and I've not yet decided whether I should harvest the pods to eat "peultjes" or wait until we have actual peas.
There's two beds to the 'moes' category. The front bed holds lettuce, spring onions (slightly larger than grass and just as noms, if I can believe my cats!), and radishes. The radishes are quite large and need eating, but since they've grown so much it takes a while to work my way through two big rows of them. I'm donating them to friends, and will take some along to Omen as snacks. The second bed is the climber's bed with beans and peas growing over the tomatoes. All are about equally high at this point and the climbers aren't climbing on their own yet, except for things they shouldn't be climbing: each other, the tomatoes, the accumulated mulch on the beds, etc.
Behind the vegetable beds there's a final bed of mostly weeds, blackberries, more weeds, some tansy and the raspberry which really loves our soil.
As you can see, our Lisa is growing rather old and she doesn't enough care of her fur anymore. She still loves going outside (first one out! OMG it's raining! I drink! This green water tastes much better than that colourless goo you serve me inside. Ok, now I am really getting wet, I run back inside!) and getting cuddles, and sleeping, but mostly she just loves sitting outside with the wind in her whiskers. And that's all the reason I need to get her a garden.
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List of plants mentioned in this post and their more common Dutch names:
Sagina subulata - Priemvetmuur
Echinacea - Zonnehoed
Pelargonium - Verzamelnaam voor diverse ooievaarsbekjes
Digitalis Purpurea - Vingerhoedskruid
Veronica Longifolium - Ereprijs
Achillea Millefolium - Duizendblad
Sedum Telephium - Hemelsleutel
Buddleja - Vlinderstruik
This is, in part, to blame on the cats who just love to hide:
More behind the cut!
Please note that for those of you who do not speak Latin but can read Dutch, I'll include a list of species at the bottom of the post.
Between the house and the garden there's a little terrace and our climbing roses over a PVC trellis. When we left for Basel, the yellow rose (the largest one) was still in buds. When we returned, it bloomed magnificently. It's already past its peak in this picture:
Our Lisa, who is growing more elderly by the day, adores the outdoors. Here she is with the overview picture:
A small recap: my garden is a feeble attempt at permaculture that needs a lot of work before it works. Some of the plants were planted last year, some this year, and it's in part 'moes' (edible plants cultivated purely for the purpose of eating off them), 'bees' and 'etc.'
The path is being overgrown, or so we hope to achieve, by a moss (Sagina subulata) which is very fluffy. So far so good, but it might take another year until it's in a perfect state. Also, the Sagina is very good at showing up in the most unlikely places all over your garden. Flamethrowers might be required at some point.
Walking from the house towards the shed, as the above picture was taken, the garden is divided roughly into three parts. To the left of the path in the 'etc.' category we have strawberries, a large conifer shading over the rain barrel (which is leaking after all, the 15 cm it had accumulated yesterday have all disappeared miraculously), some thymes and mints, and various flowers. Echinacea (which hates me for having a cold winter), some Pelargonium that was a late addition, the catnip and the Achillea millefolium that I stole from a road side while on a rampage with my trusty trowel last year. One of the newest very photogenic species is the Digitalis Purpurea, which vies with the Veronica Longifolium for the prize of being Best and Beautifullest Flower Stalk:
To the right of the path in the 'bees' department is the compost barrel, followed by another poisenous stalk that I don't know the name of. It is flanked by the courgette, several Pelargoniums that were on sale last year, the hyssop, the Sedum Telephium and a Buddleja that shares the Echinacea's view on things (grrr, frost). This little corner, with some of the plants from across the path, are there for the bees and butterflies, and already loud buzzings can be heard, and it's not just cats purring. (Only the Pelargoniums are in bloom so far, so the real fun will start in a few weeks!)
There are also oodles of mock strawberries keeping the soil mostly weed-free until the forest strawberry can move in and take over.
In the 'moes' category we have mostly vegetable plants. The beans are still complaining that it's too cold, and the tomatoes are busy getting pollinated (this sounds more dirty if you take into consideration it's plant-porn). My peas are getting pretty big so far, and I've not yet decided whether I should harvest the pods to eat "peultjes" or wait until we have actual peas. There's two beds to the 'moes' category. The front bed holds lettuce, spring onions (slightly larger than grass and just as noms, if I can believe my cats!), and radishes. The radishes are quite large and need eating, but since they've grown so much it takes a while to work my way through two big rows of them. I'm donating them to friends, and will take some along to Omen as snacks. The second bed is the climber's bed with beans and peas growing over the tomatoes. All are about equally high at this point and the climbers aren't climbing on their own yet, except for things they shouldn't be climbing: each other, the tomatoes, the accumulated mulch on the beds, etc.
Behind the vegetable beds there's a final bed of mostly weeds, blackberries, more weeds, some tansy and the raspberry which really loves our soil.
As you can see, our Lisa is growing rather old and she doesn't enough care of her fur anymore. She still loves going outside (first one out! OMG it's raining! I drink! This green water tastes much better than that colourless goo you serve me inside. Ok, now I am really getting wet, I run back inside!) and getting cuddles, and sleeping, but mostly she just loves sitting outside with the wind in her whiskers. And that's all the reason I need to get her a garden.
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List of plants mentioned in this post and their more common Dutch names:
Sagina subulata - Priemvetmuur
Echinacea - Zonnehoed
Pelargonium - Verzamelnaam voor diverse ooievaarsbekjes
Digitalis Purpurea - Vingerhoedskruid
Veronica Longifolium - Ereprijs
Achillea Millefolium - Duizendblad
Sedum Telephium - Hemelsleutel
Buddleja - Vlinderstruik
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