Garden update.....

May is one of the best months of the "garden-year" i think. Everything is so fresh and green and i am so happy with all the perennials that are coming back in the borders.... If you see these pictures below of the frontgarden that were taken in april....

All the plants are starting to grow and the hedge is still brown.

And in a few weeks time it turns into this .....

Every year i am amazed about the power of nature !!

These are 2 pictures of the side-garden ..... i decided to take all the plants out and remove them to the frontgarden because they did not grow well in this part ! The only thing growing well were the boxhedges.

So when the borders were complete empty, we planted this big ball-and pyramid shaped box back. I had them in my white back-garden and they had become a little bit too big for that border so that was very handy! And on the righthand side we planted an extra boxhedge to "close" the border.

Now i have bought a lot of "cover-plants" to get the soil of the 4 borders nicely covered, then there will be not so much weeding to do :). I chose a Vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll" (maagdenpalm) which is white flowering ! And in autum i would like to plant loads of springbulbs in as well !!

This was the orchard/vegetable-garden in april, still a bit bare.

First thing i was sowing was spinach, we have been eating it now for a few times... delicious !

This is how it looks now...the strawberries do a great job, the potatoes started last week.... also the herbs are enjoying the lovely weather we have had lately.

I have been sowing and planting endive, lettuce, green beans, beetroot, onions, carrots,cauli flower, tomatoes and also zucchine.

I like to sit in the orchard and we have our coffee and lunch there and sometimes i feel like picking some herbs and make a wreath.

I had an old green iron table left and i have put it in the vegetable garden so i can even decorate a little overthere :)

Till next time,

Janneke.