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| Strawberry |
10th May:
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| Lilacs |
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| Japanese quince |
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| Hawthorn |
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| Medlar anticipation |
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| Apple petals |
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| Strawberries |
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| Thyme |
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| Clematis Joe |
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| Oregano |
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| Medlar with a visitor |
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| Medlar |
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| Medlar |
Yesterday:
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| Iris germanica alba |
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| Raspberry |
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| Lilac |
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| Elder(flower) |
2016-05-16
White blooms
I almost always choose white flowers. Of course blossoms naturally are most often white, which helps. A few photos, all phone snapshots. 6th May:
2016-05-15
Mary Delany's mosaicks
I wanted to share a British Museum Facebook post from yesterday:
Some of the wonderful mosaicks:
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| Papaver Rheus |
Mary Delany was born #onthisday in 1700. She began making paper collages, or ‘mosaicks' as she called them, at the age of 72. The idea came to her while staying with her companion, Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, in Buckinghamshire. She had noticed the similarity of colour between a geranium and a piece of red paper that was on her bedside table. Taking up her scissors she imitated the petals. Upon entering the room, the duchess mistook them for real: 'Her approbation was such a sanction to my undertaking... and gave me courage to go on with confidence'. Delany later wrote that her work was intended as an imitation of a ‘hortus siccus’ or collection of dried flowers. In creating a ‘mosaick’, she would cut minute pieces of coloured paper and stick them on a black background to represent each part of a specimen. She created nearly 1,000 collages before failing eyesight caused her to stop in 1782. They filled ten albums which came to the British Museum in 1897. Here are some of these wonderful collages.If the link above stops working, as these things do, search the galleries by "Mary Delany" and then refine with "Drawn by".
Some of the wonderful mosaicks:
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| Amaryllis Belladonna |
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| Iris Squalens (Triandria Monogynia) |
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| Magnolia Grandiflora |
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| Nigella Damascena |
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| Parnassia palustris (Pentandria Tetragynia) |
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| Quercus Robur |
2016-05-07
Cleanup and transplanting
I'm broken! been digging lots of grass out. It is SO matted, thick and persistent!
Today I worked around the apple trees, removing all grass; placed a row of bricks behind them to stop grass roots (I hope); laid a piece of brick path; planted all the plants in small pots I had from garden centers (from thursday and still some from 16 april, I'll mark those *); mulched a bit. Doesn't sound like a lot but oof! digging out the grass is the hardest.
Some of the plants I got thursday I still haven't "inventorised" here.
Let's see:
Origanum syriacum Za'atar and an unidentified herb*, next to the pallet, beyond hyssop and chives.
From left to right behind the two apple trees, Digitalis grandiflora alba, Angelica archangelica, Alcea rosea nigra (150cm) and Digitalis lutea (70cm). So that's two types of foxgloves that I don't know if they will flower this year or the next, a giant angelica and a black hollyhock.
A bit further in, between the apple and the first foxglove, Lupinus Camelot white*. Further still and between the angelica and the first apple, a few white muscari*. On the other side of the brick path, close to the strawberry patch, three white lavenders*.
Viola odorata (sweet violet!!! :DD) I planted it between the roses on the right and the raspberries so they get some shade.
And the white iris* I planted between the left roses and the hyacinths, where they get a liiittle shadow.
Today I worked around the apple trees, removing all grass; placed a row of bricks behind them to stop grass roots (I hope); laid a piece of brick path; planted all the plants in small pots I had from garden centers (from thursday and still some from 16 april, I'll mark those *); mulched a bit. Doesn't sound like a lot but oof! digging out the grass is the hardest.
A "before" I found, just a bunch of old grass:
Some of the plants I got thursday I still haven't "inventorised" here.
Let's see:
Origanum syriacum Za'atar and an unidentified herb*, next to the pallet, beyond hyssop and chives.
From left to right behind the two apple trees, Digitalis grandiflora alba, Angelica archangelica, Alcea rosea nigra (150cm) and Digitalis lutea (70cm). So that's two types of foxgloves that I don't know if they will flower this year or the next, a giant angelica and a black hollyhock.
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| Angelica |
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| Hollyhock |
A bit further in, between the apple and the first foxglove, Lupinus Camelot white*. Further still and between the angelica and the first apple, a few white muscari*. On the other side of the brick path, close to the strawberry patch, three white lavenders*.
Viola odorata (sweet violet!!! :DD) I planted it between the roses on the right and the raspberries so they get some shade.
And the white iris* I planted between the left roses and the hyacinths, where they get a liiittle shadow.
2016-05-06
Hallerbos
Not a garden post. I've only ever posted images of my garden, but is this not fitting? Hallerbos is a forest close to Brussels, famous for is carpets of bluebells in spring.
Garden center
Yesterday we went to a garden center in Halle (ecoflora) I wanted to see which herbs they had, since the selection locally is a bit poor. Came back with a good bunch and three new ferns. We also went to the Hallerbos which I had never visited. The bluebells were still going strong. I may post some of those pictures separately.
I'm now transplanting. The ferns are in place and a few others too, but for some I have to think were to put them...
One strawberry "Maestro", which went in the strawberry patch close to the pallet. They had many types, I got this one because it said it was fragrant.
The ferns:
I got this photo for reference since I didn't leave the labels (and removed the buckler fern label which was still there since I planted it). So I got Asplenium trichomanes (15cm) Polypodium vulgare (70 cm) and Osmunda regalis (180cm!). I put 1 and 2 with the other ferns, the largest on the spot where one died (not winterhard I think) and the other towards the front since it's small. I was really hesitating where to put the royal fern. It gets large and needs perhaps a bit more light. I finally planted it before the hawthorn, not too close to it. I will keep an eye on it and see if it needs to be moved.
I was also hesitating where to put this mint. It will perhaps not be as invasive as regular mint (and I have a clump in the middle of my largest patch...) but I wanted to put it elsewhere. And it is dark so I wanted a half-shaded position. I dug a hole close to the rose/snowdrops, removed the grass, planted and refilled with soil. This one is Mentha citrata 'bergamotte'. Smells pretty particular. 70cm.
I also planted a Tanacetum balsamita (yay!!) close to the thymes. 80cm.
More later. I had to come indoors because the sun was merciless.
Meanwhile, a few ladybug photos I found in my phone, from a while back (22 april). There's less around the pallet now, perhaps it is now warm enough and they've spread through the garden. I see them less often but in more places.
I'm now transplanting. The ferns are in place and a few others too, but for some I have to think were to put them...
One strawberry "Maestro", which went in the strawberry patch close to the pallet. They had many types, I got this one because it said it was fragrant.
The ferns:
I got this photo for reference since I didn't leave the labels (and removed the buckler fern label which was still there since I planted it). So I got Asplenium trichomanes (15cm) Polypodium vulgare (70 cm) and Osmunda regalis (180cm!). I put 1 and 2 with the other ferns, the largest on the spot where one died (not winterhard I think) and the other towards the front since it's small. I was really hesitating where to put the royal fern. It gets large and needs perhaps a bit more light. I finally planted it before the hawthorn, not too close to it. I will keep an eye on it and see if it needs to be moved.
I was also hesitating where to put this mint. It will perhaps not be as invasive as regular mint (and I have a clump in the middle of my largest patch...) but I wanted to put it elsewhere. And it is dark so I wanted a half-shaded position. I dug a hole close to the rose/snowdrops, removed the grass, planted and refilled with soil. This one is Mentha citrata 'bergamotte'. Smells pretty particular. 70cm.
I also planted a Tanacetum balsamita (yay!!) close to the thymes. 80cm.
More later. I had to come indoors because the sun was merciless.
Meanwhile, a few ladybug photos I found in my phone, from a while back (22 april). There's less around the pallet now, perhaps it is now warm enough and they've spread through the garden. I see them less often but in more places.
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