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These jolly fellows are looking for a nice patch of garden to build up a new life.
Hazels looking for some new ground
Being rather a big bush than a tree, the Hazel allows you to add some layering to your garden, which will be to the pleasure of the fauna that tries to find out how good you are looking each day. Its large production of pollen will benefit huge numbers of bees and other insects, whereas you’ll be able to harvest it’s branches whenever you like. Cutting the trees down every 7 years will give you a steady amount of burning wood (if you at least have several trees of course). Its fruit, the hazelnut, is a delicacy for mice, squirrels and the Jay (Vlaamse Gaai) and for us as well. The fellows above are however not very human-minded and won’t allow you to have a steady harvest to enjoy from (from my own experience with their father/mother).
If you’d like to have one, just let me know and we’ll arrange the transfer while quenching our thirst.
Just spent a long weekend in London to see the Blur gig at Hyde Park. Great gig by the way, maybe more about that later on.
What has intrigued me the most was the Columbia Road Flower Market every Sunday. This was like a heaven for us, and when returning after a good night out for Hans’ birthday we ended up buying some lovely herbs. The lovely old lady in the stall was delighted to hear her plants would end up in a Belgian city garden, and we from our side were delighted to find some herbs we’ve been planning to plant for some time. After sleeping a few hours we returned, and couldn’t stop us from buying even more at the same stall. At the end we returned to Belgium with the following herbs/plants.
- Lemon verbena (x2)
- Purple basil
- Chocolate peppermint
- Bergamot
- Chervil
- English Strawberries (x3) and some lovely willow baskets to hang them on the wall
A few pictures of our garden, or the garden-to-be.
Two weeks old lawn
The radishes I've sown 2 weeks ago
Hautbois Strawberry
Sunflower germinating
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