Cold Frames

by | Last updated Jan 13, 2018 | Published on Mar 28, 2017 | Annuals, Garden, Perennials, Sowing, Spring

Cold Frames Hall’s Jumbo mini Greenhouse placed on the terras of Viller the Garden. Photograph by Frank Fritschy 28 MARCH, 2016 Astronomy Life Society In February I started to sow annuals and some perennials. In order to grow them to healthy young plants I...

Forsythia

by | Last updated Mar 27, 2018 | Published on Mar 21, 2017 | Garden, Garden Tools, Secateurs, Shrubs, Spring

Forsythia 21 MARCH, 2017 Garden Tools Secateurs Shrubs Spring A  harbinger of spring and probably the most sold shrub at Garden centres at the end of the last century. At the same time, the Forsythia is the most maltreated shrub around. Don’t use hedge trimmers...

Springtime

by | Last updated Jan 14, 2018 | Published on May 17, 2016 | Garden, Landscape, Perennials, Shrubs, Spring

Springtime 17 MAY, 2016 Garden Perennials Shrubs Spring After a long period of cold weather in April, this month started in the second week with bright sunshine and temperatures above 24⁰ C (75⁰F). Hardly any springtime nowadays According to an old lady from over...

What’s going on: May 2016

by | Last updated Jan 14, 2018 | Published on May 7, 2016 | Garden, Landscape, Spring

What’s Going On May 2016 7 MAY, 2016 Garden Landscape Plants Perennials I am walking our dogs and I am greeted by the dazzling yellow rapeseed flowers (Brassica napus) in the fields nearby. The air I am inhaling is loaded with its perfume. A lonely cloud hangs...

Spring Combinations

by | Last updated Jan 14, 2018 | Published on Apr 3, 2016 | Garden, Perennials, Shrubs, Spring

Spring Combinations 3 APRIL, 2016 Spring Perrenials Shrubs Garden A bright yellow colour is nowadays, to say it diplomatic, not highly appreciated in gardens. However, I would pay a fortune to travel back to the beginning of the sixties to see Dumbarton Oaks....

When autumn meets spring

by | Last updated Jan 14, 2018 | Published on Jan 10, 2016 | Autumn, Garden, Roses, Shrubs, Spring

When Autumn meets Spring 10 JANUARY, 2016 Garden Wintertime Roses Today I take a stroll through our garden just to see what’s going on. December was unusually mild with temperatures up to 15⁰C (59⁰F). It is as if wintertime is definitely excluded from the seasons.    ...