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Taking over an old garden is always exiting when you see what pops up with the changing seasons. This garden is welcoming September and the first rains after the summer with some purple Oxalis and yellow Sternbergia lutea in the…
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Vive le Forage!
When we arrived in July, the forage groundwater pump no longer worked and its control case was blackened. When we opened it, we found a shrivelled-up gekko inside – the riddle was solved. Several weeks of exchanging emails with the…
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Jungle Queen
The previous owners of the house grew some vegetables, but the did not live here fulltime and when here didn’t have much time for the garden. So the shrubs and trees had more or less been left to their own…
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What’s in the Soil?
In my research I read a lot about types of soil. Just looking at the soil in my garden it was clear that it was not rich and dark humus but chalky-pale, powdery and depleted clay. I didn’t think I…
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It is HOT.
It has rained once since we arrived end of June. Since then we’re having 30-36 degrees every day, without rain. This confirms my intention to set up a garden with as little or no watering as possible. Our housesitter had…
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A Garden in the South of France: how it all started.
We moved from Switzerland into this large garden (and the accompanying house) in June of 2022. After the first weeks of emptying boxes, setting up and buying furniture it’s time to do something about the garden. It has been layouted…