Flowers

Verbena

Verbena II

Begonias

Begonias

Sugar & Spice

Hokkaido

Peonies

Orchids

Orchids II

The Terrace - May

May was a busy month, never got around to posting any pictures (at least I took some).

Strawberries - success. Begonias - fail.

Black currant weighed down with all the fruit! The cherries are slowly turning red.

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New this month: a sweet almond tree. And a tiny fig! Side note: fig trees are expensive!

Logan berry and the black berry

My love: blueberries

The peas on the left got some sort of disease (virus?) - MAJOR fail. But the fava beans! What a pretty plant!

The shady area

More black currants. 

The herb garden

Another blue berry. This is the star plant this year, it is doing so wonderfully.

The rose is close behind.

Closeups

Hanging strawberries

Salad

Two lilies. 

Logan berry. So many potential berries! I have to cook up a plan to protect those berries from the birds.

Top: Ananas strawberry (white with red dots, can't wait to see that!) Bottom: wild strawberries.

Begonias desperate for a repot. Will do that this coming weekend.

The Terrace - April

I took those last week but never got around to post them. Such is the life with small children... one can blame one's laziness on them and no one will ever know!

Balcony view from the living room. That's the blackberry in the center, surrounded by strawberries and lettuce.

Lady Emma and the Dahlia (the title of a fun read, no?)

Balcony view from the terrace

Looking out into the terrace: look at those two lilies, so excited about them! And we got a camellia from my mother in law, it's sitting in the shady spot on the right.

The herb corner.

I'm so happy about those currants. They're really taking off. They look even fuller now.

Peas, snapshot peas and fava beans. Fava beans are so pretty!

The three blueberry bushes.

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View from the terrace back into the house

A (late) Happy Easter

Chasing the easter bunny to find out where he hid the eggs

I actually paid real money for these dead twigs :(

Over the Weekend

Martin's parents keep a lovely garden. We were lucky this past weekend to have one day of so-so warm weather and some sunshine, enough to be able to spend the day outside. Pictures taken with my cellphone.

A very old apple tree and a not so straight garden shed

A camellia plant. A gift from M's mom. Almost the perfect plant if it would produce something edible:
evergreen, loves the shade and produces very pretty flowers.

A fig bush? The main trunk died in the harsh winter last year but the tree kept going.
Now it looks like a bush instead of a tree.

Note to self: plan a visit around ripening  time. Figs in Germany are so expensive.
Back home they are dirt cheap in season.

I forgot what this berry is called. Something from Asia...