Evening in the walled garden.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 12:18PM 
I love how the walled garden is developing. There are still some gaps in the beds and I´ll definitely do some regrouping in the autumn (there is one corner that is all blue and another that is all pink, not what I am trying to achieve!). Isn´t the baby´s breath pretty here? I´ll definitely get some more of these.
I have to say I wasn´t an avid gardener before we moved here, but I am sure turning into one these days. I am constantly clipping and watering and replanting and reconsidering and reading seed catalogues like the bible. I think the husband is quite amused. Also I´ve started to collect garden books. Do you have any recommendations? I´m not looking for the basic stuff but for gorgeous photography of gorgeous gardens. Inspiration material for the remaining 2,000 square feet of garden we still need to landscape!
Look at my delphinium. It has the greatest color, yes? I got it as a tiny plant and it seemed to die off in the first weeks, but then suddenly it went crazy. That´s why I have a very late delphinium in my garden!
Unrelated, a little summer story: Yesterday when I arrived at home, there was no power. In the entire village. The outage lasted until 11pm and for some reasons at dusk, our neighbours started to gather on the village street. There was beer and laughter and many mosquitos, and it was all quite romantic. I loved it. The End.
PS: I decided this blog needs bigger pictures. Do you like? I assume it makes my archives look funny...
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Reader Comments (8)
The garden looks really nice....and that impromptu gathering is the best part of living in a small village. It's like it was in the old days, before everyone was engrossed in tvs and computers. I love seeing the larger photos.....don't worry about the archives.
wow. your garden looks amazing. and i like the bigger pictures, too.
Oooh, it's looking great. I told you those beds would fill out nicely and the delphinium is gorgeous! Clever you!
Love the larger picts. Love the garden. I can't believe how lush it is after only 1 or 2 years! German soil must be a bit better than the pure sand we have here on Cape Cod ;).
The garden and the new blog layout both look great! What a fun little summer story - your neighborhood sounds so wonderful! I wish our neighbors were like that! :)
Thank you Ladies!
Justine, nothing happened with our soil over the past 50 years or so... so not much fertilizer needed here!
Katja, yes we love our neighbors. I assume from your comment yours aren´t so nice? Shame.
in love with your flower photos !
a lady neighbor with ponies sounds nice.
i'm a bit like katjar, we're not so lucky since we learnt this year the beautiful field next to our backyard has been sold for a real estate program of 8 of these ugly box houses... to be honest i've been sick to my stomach since...
sorry to be unefficient about garden books, the ones i like the most (that i saw at the library or online -- sadly i don't own any) are english or dutch
Valerie, oh no! So sorry to hear about the new neighbours to come... I hope they´ll turn out at least as nice people!