The flower part of the lottie this morning.
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Mmmmm Ina. As good as a garden that. Excellent!
I believe the Dutch word is "mooi", what a beautiful show, bet you get plenty of butterflies on those!!
Thank you Richard but what-d'ya-mean as good as a garden? Our lottie IS our garden hahaha (we don't have one at home).
Have to modify, just saw Chaz's reaction. You've got the right Dutch word, nice going. Yes we do get lots of butterflies, thanks to several budeleia's (spelling?}or butterfly bushes as well.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Ina
What a wonderful lottie you have Ina!! Puts my garden to shame. All the hard work is worth it when you see the results paying off in such a lovely way.
Only a fortnight to go then I'll be in Holland too - can't wait. :D
Eileen.
That is just beautiful Ina .Nice variety too.
Just lovely Ina :D
Thanks for your reactions all. We just love our 'garden' so I wanted to show you too. Whot? Me humble? No way hahaha, too proud of it.
Only 5 (or is it 6 now?) years ago it was a flat, clean lottie of 260 square meters with only a neglected shed on it. As much as we like to have flowers and veggies mixed, we found out it was too much work. So, we split it up, two thirds flowergarden with 2 terraces and 1/3 veggiegarden with straigt(ish) veggiebeds and rows.
Eileen, tell us more about you going to Holland? Ever been there before? Are you going on vacation and how long for? I'd like to be the first one to say "welkom in Nederland" (I'm sure your can figuere that one out).
Ina
Wonderful lottie Ina. It is a pleasure for the eyes. You have done well in transforming it into something so lovely. :) busy_lizzie
Ina - that is gorgeous. Just how my garden's going to look in a couple of years (she says hopefully!)
But tell me, what are the bluey-mauve spikey things on the left at the front? I want some! (not the Delphiniums, the other blue thing!)
OK, why not? Here's another one. This shows about one quarter of the veggie patch, taken from the edge of the flower part. The chickenwire fencing is against rabbits, not security hehehe.
In the back of the greenhouse (behind the window that's not painted) you can see a pomegranate tree that got a bit out of hand. We had planted a seed out of a fruit and it just grew. Got a few flowers but no fruits. He's coming out of the greenhouse this fall. You can see part of the inside of the greenhouse under 'basics' in the 'greenhouse management thread' if you are interested.
Ina
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Oh Ina - what can I say - absolutely wonderful show :D You must have worked really hard to get it looking so good.
I have a pomegranate in a tub which I leave outside all winter - just put it in a sheltered part of the garden - prune it a bit in the spring and away it goes. A few years ago it was covered in bright orange flowers, but usually only one or two.
Saw all this, this am, & meant to comment. Side tracked.
'SQUISITE! But do you have weeds anywhere?? And what sort? = Tim
Hi Ina,
We'll be in Holland on the 16th of July. Whooppee!!!! Thanks for the lovely welcome.
Ian and I have been twice before and absolutely loved it.
In the past we've stayed at a holiday complex in Weert but this time we've rented a cottage in a village called Oirschot. I think it's fairly near Eindhoven?
We had a bit of a problem translating all the paperwork from Dutch to English at first but got there in the end and even managed to reply in Dutch with a bit of help from our trusty computer!! That probably gave everybody at the booking office a good laugh. Hope we find the cottage alright. If you see a navy blue Kangoo 4x4 with two confused, middle-aged people in it passing your way then it's probably us. ::)
We're trying hard to learn some more of the language before we get over there but it's quite difficult when you've only got about two brain cells operating at any one time. :P
I hope you're not getting all these storms that we are having here in Scotland at the moment they're flattening my poor garden. :(
Bye for now. Eileen.
P.S.
We're only going to be in the Netherlands for a week as we simply couldn't afford to stay any longer this time around.
I noticed the photo bucket site is under construction at the moment so the pictures (and everyone elses who uses it) will not be visible.
Aquilegia, if I'm not mistaken, the flowers you are talking about are one of the Veronica types. I like them a lot too.
Eileen, I hope you have a wonderful time in Holland. If you plan other trips to Holland and you have questions, don't hesitate to private message me.
Garden Girl, since the pomegranate survived two winters in a windowless greenhouse I think it will survive outside just fine if.....it survives the transplanting. I wouldn't mind if it died because it has nasty thorns on it.
Tim, do we have weeds? You bet. Bindweed, couch grass, stingy nettles, a plant that's very sticky and 'glues' everything together and other assorted, less bad, weeds. In spring, when there is room to move around, we spend a lot of time digging roots of the baddies and later, when we do our flower sightseeing, we do it with two buckets. One for the good weeds (compost) and one for the baddies (we take away).