autumn
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My Fitness Pergola
It seems like I always need a gardening project. This summer I finally had the chance to take care of something that has been annoying me for a long time. I fixed a good and natural place to park my car. At the same time I created some exercise equipment for myself. My car has been parked at a spot where the road widens, but that never satisfied the garden designer in me. I don’t like having cars on display (even though mine is fairly neutral and not an eyesore) but I think cars should have a suitable spot near the house and your door. Since I live in Finland,…
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Back in October
It’s most certainly one of the dullest times of the year in terms of gardening. The grasses in my new border look a bit interesting and the Nandina domestica still has all it’s leaves, but otherwise, it’s quite dreary and most of time it’s dark! Still, a few weeks ago there were a few highlights, these are some of them: In the first picture a Forsythia. Clematis ‘Anita’ Nandina domestica The last flower of my Lilium speciosum
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The Heights I Want to Reach
When my grandmother was my age or perhaps even younger, she doesn’t remember exactly, she planted a larch. I think it’s a Japanese one, Larix kaempferii, but I’m not one hundred percent sure. I’d say it’s something between 12-15 meters high today. Both my grandmother and my grandfather, when he was alive, were quite interested in gardening and I think my mother and I have respectively taken it even further. Not that far from my grandmother’s larch I have planted a Metasequoia glyptostroboides. It’s fairly exotic for Finland, but so far it has survived. It’s almost 3 meters high. I thought I had bought it from a garden center, but…
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Project Exhaustion
If it weren’t for the weather I would be quite excited about the new border I’m making. I’m finally going to have a large perennial border that will suit both large perennials and grasses. There will be two passageways through it so there will also be nice spots for smaller and lower plants. There will be mostly perennials, but a few woody plants so it’s not quite a modern perennial border à la Piet Oudolf, but a mixed border with some prairie touches. Absolutely no cottage garden though. “Project Exhaustion”, or perhaps it’s called “Project Fatigue” is however, what I’ve been feeling towards my massive new flower bed during the…
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Rainy Days
Some years ago when we had horrible droughts, I swore I would never complain about rain. I’m not sure I made the distinction “during the summer”, but that was my intention. I didn’t complain about the rain this summer either, it was very nice to see everything grow with such vigor and I’m looking forward to some nice flowering next spring. For example the azaleas, the rhododendron and my magnolias all look like they have set a record amount of buds. So that is excellent, however, this autumn rain that we have had in the last weeks is getting a bit old. It is very wet and there are some…
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