My Australian pride, the bottle brush. Bought in Switzerland at the Coop. I have learnt in Australia, that Australian plants always have their toes in the underground wet layer: that is how they survive the dryness. So, I ensure this plant is always in a wet layer. I failed sometimes last winter, when it was upstairs. So, this winter it will be in the living room, even though that is a warmer spot.
This Rose stood under the Elderflower tree, and was wasting. Now she stands in a sunny spot with space. Interesting colour.
Peter is once more attacking the Ivy, this time because the neighbour requested it. But we find these eggs, little green eggs, haven't seen a bird near it for ages....
The Pulsatilla was beautiful when it flowered, but it is still nice - as the book said - just as seed fluffy things.
Isn't this a beauty? It is common in the little canals, but still, who cares?
In the pond's shallow grows the cotton gras. My mom recognised it immediately, right after we moved into the house. Last year it was not much, but this year it is splendid. Would it be the low water level last year? Or the high level this year?
This is where the banana's were.... I see some big holes with rotten roots. I doubt it will come back, but I won't dig for a while yet.
These came back great! About six of them. One of them I cut to give to my mum for a vase. Well, perhaps that saves the bulb and gives more flowers next year??
Apparently Alium is great for bees, that is important too!
Here the Campanula is winning! But perhaps they are all winners in their own season. First the winter Aconite, then the Aguilegia, and later the Campanula. Do you see the seeds on top of the Winter Aconites? Good harvest!!
I haven't done much work on this spot yet, it more or less grows like it does. There is the Polemonium caeruleum ('Jacobsladder'), red Varian, Aquilegia (in dark pink) and some first yellow spots of Alchemilla mollis. The Dicentra just stopped flowering.
Forest Aguilegia, it is the Aguilegia, that I planted in the 'forest' area. It is definitely surviving.
We have just watered the garden because of the drought. This azalea stands in teh most sunny place of the garden. That doesn't seem right, but it surviving.... And flowering beautifully.
And suddenly they are there: the fresh green leaves!
I want make a path here, so that Ces can run circles and so that visually the garden becomes more one whole, and not two halves.
With a first bee. Good to see that some are alive after all the stories about viruses with bees.
They are back and have really opened up. I will need to move the campanula's - they are too close. But what a joy that they have settled. I have seen the place that I dug them out from, further down our street from a derilict house, or the house from the water management association. The mothers there are still there, I saw, under the Magnolia tree. But hidden behind a pile of cut shrub.
This is so cute! The snow drops stick their heads in the snow. Untill the suns shines on them, then they rear up! Perhaps it is warmer in the snow? 
