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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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The Old Double Borders
I guess I have almost been ignoring my old double borders here on cameragardening.com. In real life I appreciate them very much and I like how (moderately) easy they are to manage now that they are mature. 15 years old it seems, at least according to the old photographs I have from the time the soil was first turned. It was a lot of digging and soil improvement at the time and I remember that I bribed one of my cousins to help me with an old Mitsubishi soil rotator. I think I had given him a lift somewhere and he owed me a favour. The rotator was old even…
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My Fitness Pergola
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Border Building
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j100/HenrikaGardening/borderbuilding1.jpg Almost the whole border Time flies when you have a lot to do… Work, renovating more than half my home and tackling this beast of a border that I started on last fall. The border is going fairly well. I’ve improved the soil in the shade curve with lots of peat based compost and I’m doing the same with the rest of it. Last fall I bought garden soil (around 20 tonnes) and it has been good in the sense that it is weed free (not counting all the maple seeds that since landed in it and then germinated) and it seems to be nicely fertilized. What I’m not…
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Les Jardins Agapanthe
The gardens of Agapanthe are the creation of garden designer and nurseryman Alexandre Thomas. The design and planting is quite interesting, both bold and lush. What makes the gardens a bit unusual is that they are situated on both sides of a road. The house that is seen in the picture belongs to Alexandre’s parents and the gardens in the foreground belong to Alexandre. The gardens around Alexandre’s parents are 20 years old, but the newer part is just a few years old. Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ The newer part The newer part of the garden has got quite a running start with some very large plants!
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Jardin de Valérianes
In contrast to Château de Vandrimare which had been in the same family since 1492 (!) and which I just wrote about, Jardin de Valérianes is a smaller creation by its current owners. The garden was in two parts on each side of the road with a lot of interesting perennials, some roses and a lot of cool (as in modern hybrids) shrubs and smaller trees.Calycanthus floridus, might have been a particular hybrid. Paeonia delavayi var. lutea An azalea with Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ Cercidipyllum japonicum ‘Rotfuchs’ A double Rubus, and at the moment I can’t remeber what the hybrid is called.. Trillium, might be T.flexipes
