• spring,  stonescaping,  woodland

    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…

  • spring,  travel,  woodland

    Jardins de Bellevue

    The Jardins de Bellevue are one of my absolute favorite types of gardens. The gardens are meandering and well thought out woodland gardens, which feature a lot of rare and stunning perennials, shrubs and trees. In addition to that they are set in a beautiful landscape that they make the most of. In the first picture probably a Halesia carolina. Xanthoceras sorbifolium, this might have been the first time I even heard of this tree… One of the paths Magnolia sinensis Rosa cantabrigiensis Trillium grandiflorum ‘Flore Pleno’ And so much else, I’ve just decided to stick to around 5 pictures per French garden, otherwise I would not get anything else…

  • autumn,  My Garden,  woodland

    Back in October

    It’s most certainly one of the dullest times of the year in terms of gardening. The grasses in my new border look a bit interesting and the Nandina domestica still has all it’s leaves, but otherwise, it’s quite dreary and most of time it’s dark! Still, a few weeks ago there were a few highlights, these are some of them: In the first picture a Forsythia.   Clematis ‘Anita’ Nandina domestica   The last flower of my Lilium speciosum

  • autumn,  My Garden,  woodland

    The Heights I Want to Reach

    When my grandmother was my age or perhaps even younger, she doesn’t remember exactly, she planted a larch. I think it’s a Japanese one, Larix kaempferii, but I’m not one hundred percent sure. I’d say it’s something between 12-15 meters high today. Both my grandmother and my grandfather, when he was alive, were quite interested in gardening and I think my mother and I have respectively taken it even further. Not that far from my grandmother’s larch I have planted a Metasequoia glyptostroboides. It’s fairly exotic for Finland, but so far it has survived. It’s almost 3 meters high. I thought I had bought it from a garden center, but…