I have it on good authority that it's just around the corner. Hope that you like these pics to fight the deep winter blues.
Oh to see sights like that again soon!! Your clematis is gorgeous and I love your black eyes susans and your butterfly bushes.
Look at you grow. I like the butterfly bush. What is the second picture? Cosmos? Thier very pretty. Thanks for the spring colors.
Sjoerd, you have done it again. You have set my heart to palpitating and envy is rearing it's ugly head with pictures of your beautiful garden. Just beautiful.
When my garden grows up it wants to be full and healthy like yours. You know when you ask a pregnant woman what sex for a baby do she want and she says that it doesn't matter as long as it is healthy. Well I am anticipating the birth of my spring garden (2008) and I don't really care about what is in it as long as it is healthy. Love the pics I ooooed and ahhhed outloud.
Thank you guys very much for your favourable comments. I an pretty happy that you liked them. I posted them as much for me as for you. I am finding myself getting a little colour-starved at the moment. It's been gray and brown here for so long, that the few crocuses in the street medians just aren't enough for me, so I'm entertaining myself with these. Petunia: The second foto from the top is of what you folks call "Black-eyed-Susans"(Rudbeckia hirta), I believe. You ment the yellow ones, didn't you?...if not, the second one from the bottom is "Japanese Anemones" (Anemone hupehensis). I was told that it was the "Queen Charlotte" variety; however, I doubt that that to be so. I honestly do know know which variety it is. Toni and D2D, you sure do make me smile. I can't wait to see what your gardens grow this summer.
Simply amazing. I think I want to move to West Friesland. What is the plant to the front in the last photo. It is awesome, heck it is all awesome. Never quit posting pictures of your garden.
Hiyah Cajunbelle, If you mean that bract, it is a globe artichoke that I use for decoration not for eating. It has the most exotic-looking flower--a sort of light blue-purply colour. So delicate and attractive to bees and butterflies. I find it a stunning flower.
Who needs a veggie garden? Who needs to eat when you can just feed off the sight of these beauties..?? Love your flowers, and I'm hoping the few I do plant make these pics proud
very beautiful Sjoerd,, geeez my second seed order, the post man is going to have to hull it all in a barrel...i look at your pics,, and say to myself,, i want that one, that one,, ohhh i gotta have that one,, then theres that other one, gotta have that too,,,,lol. Thank you Sjoerd, a little color to the artic in winter never hurts.
Saffy: Thanks for your nice words. I appreciate them very much...but tell--what are you planning to plant this year? Don't you forget to take piccies of them, whatever you do. Biita: I´m well chuffed that the colour helps out up there. I can just picture the postman wheeling-into your place with this huge, great barrel packed/full of little seed packs. What an image that conjures-up. You have a way with words, I´ll say that.
The skies here today are a beautiful blue like in your pictures, but that's the only similarity. Looks so lush and full and warm! I love the pink anemones.
