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Jardin de Valérianes
In contrast to Château de Vandrimare which had been in the same family since 1492 (!) and which I just wrote about, Jardin de Valérianes is a smaller creation by its current owners. The garden was in two parts on each side of the road with a lot of interesting perennials, some roses and a lot of cool (as in modern hybrids) shrubs and smaller trees.Calycanthus floridus, might have been a particular hybrid. Paeonia delavayi var. lutea An azalea with Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ Cercidipyllum japonicum ‘Rotfuchs’ A double Rubus, and at the moment I can’t remeber what the hybrid is called.. Trillium, might be T.flexipes
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Château de Vandrimare
Seeing the park at Château de Vandrimare was very interesting, I think it was the one garden that I missed the first time I was in Normandy since for some reason I had the wrong opening times. Seeing it now with our wonderful group did not go quite perfectly either. We were shown around by the owner himself who was really knowledgeable and had collected some wonderful trees, shrubs and perennials to the garden. The problem was just the weather that did not play ball. Despite our visit being in the middle of May, it was very windy and at one point it hailed! It hailedMespilus germanica, one of many…
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Winter Survivors
Finally, a nice spring day! The last of the snow is melting and you could see some of what had survived the winter. Vihdoinkin kiva kevätpäivä! Viimeinen lumi sulaa ja nyt pääsee jo näkemään mitkä kasvit ovat selvinneet talvesta. Äntligen en härlig vårdag! Snön smälter snabbt och man kan se vad som klarat vintern. In the first picture / ensimmäisessä kuvassa / på den första bilden: Crocus sp. Under threat from rabbits (hares). / Krookuksia uhkaa rusakot/ Krokusen hotas av hararna. Cardiocrinum giganteum, now peeking and in flower in 2009 / kukassa 2009 ja kurkistamassa tänään / blommande 2009 och framtittande idag. Paeonia ’Zhao Fen’ originally brought home from Italy / Italiasta…
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A Future Sunset Part 2
The pictures were starting to pile up on my last post, so I decided to divide it into three parts. This is about the plants that I plan to include in my sunset border next year. Niitä kuvia alkoi olla aika hurjan paljon liittyen siihen mun edelliseen postaukseen, joten päätin jakaa sen kolmeen. Tässä siis taas kuvia niistä kukista joita suunnittelen minun auringonlaskupenkkiini ensi vuonna. Det började bli ganska mycket bilder i mitt förra inlägg, så jag beslöt att dela upp det i tre delar. Här följer alltså bilder som jag tänker ha i min solnedgångsrabatt som jag planerar att anlägga nästa år. In the first picture: I might consider…
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A Future Sunset Part 1
A few things, among them Scott with the blog Rhone Street Gardens have been inspiring me during this summer and given me the idea to start a ”sunset” border next year. I have a spot that gets the evening sun, where some rather ugly black currants grow right now, that really is in need of a makeover. Besides getting the evening light the idea would be to use orange, apricot and red flowered plants, maybe even with a little yellow which I usually avoid like the plague. I already have a lot of plants that could move there next year: some Miscanthus ‘Malepartus’, M. ‘Morning Light’ and a Miscanthus that…
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