Around the Rose Path
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1 The husband trimming the hawthorn-hedge at the start of the rose-path
2 The old apple-trees together with Spiraea arguta. These trees- a 'Signe Tillish' and a 'Cox Pomona' were old and in a bad state when we first tried to get them in shape. The fruit was small and badly infected. You couldn't possibly prune them into "clean" wood. So I just cut out some of the worst damages and started feeding them by making holes in the earth all around the trunks with the help of an iron-bar lever and fill in with fertilizer and water. Kept  on watering in dry periods and kept to this management for some years. They gave wonderful crops all the years until we had to take 'Cox Pomona'down with the building of the new house - after 25 years! A few years ago 'Signe Tillish' broke down in one of the heavy storms we have had lately.
3 Clematis 'Mme le Coultre' fleeting in the Spiraea - the'Bridal wreath
4 Campanula medium - 'Canterbury bells'	5 Campanula medium - 'Cup and Saucers'
6 Geranium pratense 'Album'
7 Meadow cranesbill
8 Geranium pratense 'Plenum''
9 Geranium macrorrhizum 'Album'
10 Geranium endressii ' Rose Claire'
11 Iris 'Sicilien' - lovely fragrance	12 Iris 'Sicilien'- bearded group
13 Iris barbata -bearded group
14 Laburnocytisus adamii has yellow laburnum-flowers and pinkish cytisus-flowers at the same time as well as an intermediate form. It's a graft hybrid.
15 Astilbe  thunbergii 'Professor van der Wielen' is my favourite. Grows tall and flowers well. (Ruys 1917). In the foreground Lunaria annua - honesty- selfseeder.
16 Anemone hupehensis
17 Anemone hupehensis (Please watch The Pink Pantherabove)
18 Hypericum calycinum - a good groundcover with beautiful cinnamon- coloured leaves in winter
19 Here is where the little woodland begins with two Pinus: cembra and nigra Coreopsis verticillata in the foreground
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