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A walk

in our garden

Our garden is often featured in the blogs on snazzie. Because we love to be outside a lot with the mini-monsters and we enjoy working with them in the garden. We sometimes have tea parties in the garden, sometimes we read, drink coffee or have a picnic or we are busy with the plants in our vegetable garden. All very pleasant to do and we are having lots of fun in passing that on to the mini-monsters.
Often we have discussed the dimensions of our garden already, our stamp garden, as we call it. Because even if it is a small city garden, fortunatelythere is enough space for lots of plants and shrubs. We show that to you today, because we are actually a bit proud of our work in the garden. (Middle photo Ivy - Hedera Helix)

So here we go ...

Forget-me-not - Brunnera macrophylla

Viburnum Tinus

Lilac - Syringa vulgaris

Blue Bell - Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Unfortunately, no vegetable garden this year! Last year we worked hard in it and for the first time we had such a bad result that we will pass this year. With pain in our hearts but sadly we have a slug infestation in the garden and they eat everything you plant. So gnawed on radishes, beets and carrots, only last year's tomatoes did moderatly well.

The mini-monsters have put in some herbs and plants in the veggie boxes and we planted the beans from the school project in it too, last May. They have gotten big pods now!

Fortunately our perennials with fruit like the raspberry, red currant, grapes and strawberries are growing very well! The fruit starts to develop or is ripe already, ready to be picked.

The first harvest

The Blueberry is doing well but no berries again!

Snowberry - Symphoricarpos

Sugarplum - Amelanchier

Firethorn - Pyracantha

Pink climbing rose - Rose - Rosaceae

Budding climbing rose

Climbing rose New Dawn

Phlox

Foxgloves - Digitalis Purpurea

Foxgloves - Digitalis Purpurea

Cotoneaster

Hortensia - Hydrangea in 3 fases

Hortensia - Hydrangea

Hortensia - Hydrangea

Guelder Rose - Viburnum Opulus

Peony -- Paeonia

Peony - Paeonia

Peony - Paeonia

Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris

Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris

Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris

Bellflower - Campanula

And then there are the roses - Rosaceae

What you see in the picture is far from everything that grows in our garden, we have so many different shrubs, plants and flowers and even some trees. We sometimes do not believe that there is anything that can be added, but then it usually can ;))
 
One thing you have to keep in mind when you start a garden: you can not hurry a garden, but if you are patient you will get there. To end cheesy (but very true) it is not the destination but the journey. We feel that certainly applies to gardening, the pleasure it has given us  and still does is priceless!
 
You may feel a bit left out if you do not have a garden. But next time we will show you a small balcony that is also lovely, gives a lot of joy en needs a lot less work. There's also something to be said in favour that!