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Get Your Spring Fix Here

Mar 11, 2010 6:00am

At what o'clock is Spring? That's a question I ask myself as soon as the last leaf has fallen from the trees. Spring is my favourite time of the year as it's so full of promises of things to come. Whether those promises will be fulfilled remains to be seen, but often the...

How Now Brown Cow Meets Piet Oudolf

Feb 25, 2010 3:55am

That's right, it's time for an elocution lesson. As a garden connoisseur you are bound to have heard of Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf but if you are non Dutch speaking do you also know how to pronounce his name correctly? When I talk with non Dutch garden geeks who are raving about Mr Oudolf...

Egg, Bacon, Spam, Baked Beans, Spam, Sausage and Spam

Feb 10, 2010 1:35am

Spammity spam, wonderful spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam! That seems to be on the menu lately and frightfully often too. Is it me or has there been an influx of spam recently? Comments is something we bloggers love so please dear reader, keep them coming. But spamments? Not so much! It's very annoying when your blog gets hit by...

WeR3

Feb 1, 2010 3:20am

Outdoor space, the final frontier These are the voyages of the Bliss Gardener Her continuing mission to explore strange new worlds To seek out new life and new civilisations To boldly go where no gardener has gone before Quite some time ago it struck me that embarking on a journey in space is strangely akin to starting...

Bad

Jan 19, 2010 2:45am

Dolly: I can't watch this anymore, I really can't, that dog is so bad. Bad, bad, really, really bad!Tara: who's bad?Tara: when we went shopping the other day I just popped into the butcher's while Yolanda wasn't looking and helped myself to a string of sausages.It is self service in...

Indulging in a Spot of Indoor Gardening

Jan 12, 2010 4:54am

Gardening outside is not an option when my garden is covered in 15 cm of snow so I've opted for a spot of indoor gardening today.First off I went to buy a nice bouquet of tulips. After I had turfed out the Christmas tree I felt in dire need of...

Do Not Disturb!

Jan 7, 2010 4:31am

Snow...................gently falling inch by inch, transforming the dreary, bare landscape into a magical placewhere any moment now, the Ice Queen will make a frosty appearance.Wreaking havoc, polar bears and all, on the purity of the driven snow.Stop this nonsense immediately Ice Queen, so we can enjoy this pristine blanket of...

Tick Tock

Dec 31, 2009 4:23am

Tick tock, the old Mora clock ticks away the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries.She was made a long time ago, round 1850, tick tock, in the Swedish province of Dalarna. Bad weather and poor soil forced the farmers in the Mora (town) area to look...

Mainly Basking

Dec 25, 2009 7:30am

is what we're doing this Christmas. We are frightfully comfy and toasty in front of a roaring fire. And we are loving it. A lot.Outside it may be cold,bitterly cold, but Tara doesn't mind one bit. She loves snow and she is not the only Kooiker doggie that loves it.After...

Wow, unbelievable!

Dec 17, 2009 5:40am

but we have snow. Rather unexpectedly as we very seldom have any.It's just a very light sprinkling as you can see here; it does not even cover the lawn properly.But pretty nevertheless,it's turned my garden into a magical winter wonderland.To enjoy this unexpected pleasure to the max I decided...

Bulbalicious

Dec 9, 2009 1:40am

Bulbs are so delicious you could eat them with a spoon. Well, not eat perhaps - although this has been done in the Netherlands in WW2 during the Hunger Winter of 1944 - but certainly plant them with it.I do, I plant most of the small bulbs like crocus, muscari,...

Autumn Jewels

Nov 25, 2009 3:10am

Autumn has so far been a rather sparkling affair with gorgeous jewels dotted about in the garden.The beauty of flowers is especially poignant at this time of year when every day could be the last day on which they can display their rich glittering colours of rubies, emeralds, sapphires, amethysts,...

This Momentous GB Bloom Day

Nov 15, 2009 4:24am

Those of you who follow me on Twitter already know how unseasonably clement the weather has been over here these last two months and it has led to a bountiful Garden Bloggers Bloom Day today. Of course I'd love you to share in this bounty and feast your eyes on...

Full of Grace

Nov 3, 2009 12:59am

The winter here is cold and bitter It's chilled us to the bone We haven't seen the sun for weeks Too long too far from home I feel just like I'm sinking And I claw for solid groundI'm pulled down by the undertowI never thought I could feel so lowAnd...

Still Glowin' and Crowin'

Oct 27, 2009 5:48am

I said hello, Dolly, ...... well, hello, DollyIt's so nice to have you back where you belongYou're looking swell, Dolly, I can tell. DollyYou're still glowin' .... you're still crowin', ... you're still growing strongMy glorious girl is 12 today! Happy Birthday Dolly Daisy, long may you continue to glow,...

Glorious Gloriousness

Oct 20, 2009 3:17am

It wasn't all that long ago when we would call ourselves lucky, very lucky indeed, if we had 2 or 3 days of glorious sunshine and balmy weather in October. Nowadays we have come to count on such wonderfully mild and sunny weather at this time of year. Global warming...

Vegetables; The Musical!

Oct 13, 2009 1:30am

Multimedia is the name of this game, so if you want to get the full fun instead of only half of it please click on the video to start the music. By the time you've grinned yourself through this post the song will have finished. Enjoy!I'm gonna be round my...

Leading You Down

Oct 6, 2009 4:50am

the garden path. Or up it as the case may be. And a very unusual path it is too. I found it last year in the Botanical Gardens of Wageningen and I have been meaning to blog about it ever since. But you know how it is, there was always...

Let It Be

Sep 29, 2009 2:15am

Be smart, indulge yourself and click the vid, you know you want to!Autumn is upon us and although I'm hardly Mother Mary I do have some words of wisdom on the subject of your garden and what is to be done with it at this time of year. Many gardeners...

Your Writing, How Has It Made a Difference?

Sep 23, 2009 3:40am

That's quite a question, isn't it? And what, fellow blogger, would be your answer? I'd really like to know and you can tell me all about it on your blog if you decide to join in the fun that is this meme about writing. But it's rather up to you...

Potager Potterings

Sep 16, 2009 2:05am

September, and a lot of pottering gets done both in the garden and potager.There is the daily picking and savouring of woodland strawberries,these strawberries may be tiny but their taste is great, not to mention scrumptious.At this time of year there are blackberries, oodles of them and the picking is...

Do You Have One Too?

Sep 10, 2009 3:59am

A showstopper in your garden? I do, and it's a real winner in my eyes. It even flowers in August, the month when most gardeners complain that not a lot is going on, flower wise. Well this little gem does and how, so yours truly hasn't been complaining about August...

What's Your Strategy?

Sep 2, 2009 3:40am

Gardening is, to coin a phrase, multimedia baby, but I'm appalled and horrified by the fact that not all gardeners seem to realize this. Frankly, any fool can have a garden in technicolor and with surround sound. It's not that difficult to create a garden like that; just bung in...

Whatever You Do ....

Aug 25, 2009 1:00am

always take the weather with you. I did, and it worked!As you can see I had a wonderful holiday in this beautiful country of mine,we all had. So, going Dutch is actually much better than many people think. ;-)copyright 2009 Y.E.W. Heuzen...

There's Bliss On the Menu

Jul 30, 2009 2:35am

Well there is Bliss on the menuAnd you don't know what you are missingGentle reader make a meal out of BlissTake a big biteOr a nibbleTomato entree, bon appetit!Gentle reader, never stop your commentingNever stop, have a good vintage wineCome, let's eat outside and have ourJust dessertsTea and sympathy, with...