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“Garten heisst Warten” – a German phrase I coined a few years back in my Swiss garden. It means that gardening is mostly about waiting: Waiting until you can plant stuff.Waiting for stuff to grow. Waiting for stuff to bloom.…
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Rain!
Even a dry garden gets some rain. 203 liters/sqm between October and March. I have no idea whether that’s a lot for this region but at the beginning of the week alone we had 60 liters/sqm. With deep puddles in…
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Anemones for springtime color
Anemone blanda Anemone blanda (“Grecian windflower” or “Balkan anemone”) may be an unpresuming little flower but it is far from being bland. As soon as the spring sun comes out in March and throughout April it makes for very pretty…
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Euonymus japonicus
Euonymus japonicus is an East Asian native but very popular as hedge plant or shrub in France because it is easy, robust, and evergreen. It is also drought-resistant once established and hardy to -15℃. We have two different kinds in…
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The Orchard
This garden had been an orchard once upon a time. There was a cherry plum (prunus cerasiferus) that had created its own little forest, damaging the garden wall in the process. A big old fruit tree of unknown kind that…
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Ipomoea tricolor/rubrocaerulea
No garden without the large luminous flowers of Ipomoea Heavenly Blue or Grandpa Ott – my favorite color varieties. Alas, it’s quite too hot and dry for them here. I did try sowing them but if they come up at all…