Today is a lovely day to spend in the garden! I started mowing the grass - it always smells great. The grass is doing OK, but starts to get yellow patches here and there.
I have decided to try the "garden at first sight" or "tuin op het eerste gezicht" from Anne Tanne's Tuin. The idea is to make a picture of your garden from the same angle, at different times, so you can see the changes in the garden. I like the idea. But since our garden is a compact city garden, it may not be easy to find a good angle to show it. Still, I'll try it and might combine different angles and parts of the garden. Here's a first try.
The garden needs some work again. Busy weekends made it impossible for me to do something substantial. Hopefully today I can get some done. There are still some plants waiting to be planted in the garden, like the lupine - a regular bee-magnet-, the spirea and some alcea that I've grown myself from seeds from our alcea in our street-garden (tegeltuintje), which is actually the front of our house in the street where roses and alcea grow. I have also put some plants in pots there.
Even though we don't have a lot of space, I also added a small bird bath in the garden, where the birds can bath, -obviously- and drink water. It is being used so much by all kinds of birds and of course gives us great pleasure to watch.
I just had an accident with our passiflora. While cleaning up the mowed grass, I incidentally cut the passiflora off its roots! It just started growing nicely and will have to start all over again now. But it might be a good occasion to replant it somewhere else. The ferns that my neighbours gave me some weeks ago seemed to do really well in the semi-shadow, until last weekend. I suddenly noticed they are drying up! Help! I might need to put them somewhere else to see if I can still rescue them. But the garden truly looks wonderful in this season and the idea that with the years it will even look more beautiful is a great thing to look forward to.
The sad news is that our neighbours decided to cut the big maple tree in their garden. Although for our garden it will probably not make a lot of difference, cutting big trees make me very sad and I already feel so sorry for the birds that come and visit and nest in that tree regularly. They don't have a clue yet but one of these days that tree will be gone. :-(
I hope I won't be home when they cut it.
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