Flower Garden--Part 1

Hi,

Some folks have asked to see my flower garden. I know they didn´t mean when it was asleep, but in order to see and know where the paths are, I wanted to show some winter and early spring shots first.
The reason why I´m doing this will be apparent when I show the summer views. The layout and paths are almost invisible when photographing overviews. In order to see the paths and individual plots, you actually have to be walking on them.

My flower garden is not manuicured, neat and tidy. That´s not the sort that I want. I have what could be called `a cottage garden gotten out of control´, I suppose. It´s just that with the almost extreme neatness of the veggie gardens, I need something more relaxed to sit amongst.

There are three very small patios--the main, central patio, the east patio...and what I call `the Rivera`-- a little, narrow patio-strip behind the shed and bordering on the slootje (pronounced ´slow-tyah´, more or less), or small canal. The two ´mini patios´ are places to escape the sun. and get a little wind during the hottest part of the season.

An end of the winter shot±

The rest are early spring and showing aspects gradually working from west to east-

Late spring. My partner will not agree to remove the Forget-me-nots until they have completely bloomed-out. They´re pretty, but it´s holding up the clean-up!

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Thank you each and every one for your kind and encouraging comments. I will try and finish weeding-out the fotos soon, as I can't show too many. As I said, it is very difficult showing the garden in bloom...it just all sort of looks grown together and you can hardly tell what is what on fotos. But I will do my best to give a good idea.

Petunia, the gravel paths aren't gravel...they are wood chips. Heh heh heh. I go out and collect garbage bags full of them from the county government dumping places for free.
The exact measurements of the little greenhouse I do not know without looking, but it's something like 2½ meters x 3 meters. Very small, as you can see, but I get an enormous amount of veggies out of it each year. I replace the dirt in there each season with new compost and garden soil. I have to remove the glass out of it each fall because when the canals freeze the hooligans get onto the rail road tracks and throw stones until each pane was broken. Sad.

Well just let me know what you require in terms of info and I will look it up and send it to you. I have it in my files and can lay my hands on it at a seconds' notice.
You can do that by PM if you want so as to not fill up forum space with the info.

Kuntrygal, "Half the space"? I thought that in america everyone had big yards. Or at least that it was usual. What's the yards situation in TX?

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Sjoerd http://www.volkstuindersvereniginghoornenomstreken.nl/Page11.html