The lovely Amanda, aka SouleMama, gives us a glimpse
of her garden once a week. From now I’ll try to join once a week to show you a
little of my almost brand new garden until the end of the gardening season.
Since the 1st of July we call this little
piece of land our own. The elderly couple who lived here before left a rather
wild garden with bushes and weeds growing a little wherever they want. I’d like
to take you on a garden tour and present you the main things of our garden.
The fruit trees: We count four apple trees, one peer
tree, two plum trees and one cherry tree. Unfortunately they have not been
taken care of very well so a proper cut is high up on the winter to-do-list for
the garden.
The berry bushes: I feel very blessed with those black
currants growing wild behind the compost stack. One red currant bush was found
by my cousin in the middle of some other bushes and trees. Finally, wild raspberries
and some forest strawberries complete our rather wild berry corner. In the
middle of the garden, we have a little elderberry tree. This makes me very
happy as the good house spirits might live in an elderberry bush. Right now the
flowers are turning into green berries and hopefully I’ll be able to harvest
some. Along the southern house wall we have some blackberries as well, still
green, but hopefully dark blue later in the summer.
Flowers: Beside the blackberries we have a plenty of
thistles growing along the southern wall. Later on they should flower blueish
but I like them already. Among this wilderness I found some roses as well which
I’d like to rescue later on and plant them at a proper place.
However, all those flowers will have to move as we have
to fix the drainage system around the house (not unimportant at the rainy west coast
of Sweden). Therefore I plan to re-plant all of them during fall.
Vegetables: One of the first things I did was to clean
up around the compost stack. A little garden shed with a flower box in front of
opened up for some late planting: I planted three different tomatoes and sawed
some monks cress. I love the monks cress as it often flowers late into fall and
I keep my fingers crossed that they will grow and do so for me during my first
west coast fall.
A lot’s of things are to do and my dreams and plans for
this green spot of mine are many. So while we are renovating the house inside
and unpacking dozens of boxes, I sneak out every now and then, sometimes for 15
minutes, sometimes for a couple of hours to do something in the garden, to
breath and to recharge my batteries.
I am excited to show you soon more things happening in
the garden!
