The Grove

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Here are some pictures taken before "the new house" was built.
The Amelanchier-grove still stands, but most of the flowers are gone, as well as the paths on the west- and east-side.

Corylus avellana 'Contorta' - corkscrew hazel. Female flower with deep red styles very early in spring

Viburnum farreri

Malus sargentii with groundcover Galium odoratum - woodruff

Facing south against the road with the grove to the left and "the nursery" to the right.

Around the corner facing eastward with the hawthorn hedge along the main road. Rodgersia and Ligularia in the grove (planted in an old bathtub!)

Looking through the grove to the nursery

Astilboides tabularis

The "hot corner": Geranium sanguineum and Sedum acre, both from the wild

Rosa foetida 'Bicolor' and Salvia 'Ostfriesland'

Rosa plus Achillea 'Coronation Gold' and Iris x regeliocyclus 'Vera'

Iris 'Vera'

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Allium aflatunense and Iris 'Vera'. The old appletree in the background

Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'

The black-eyed Susan

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Monarda didyma

Bergamot

The grass-path due north. In the corner Pinus nigra.

Around the corner: the lawn, looking east. In the border Gunnera and Primula florindae

Gunnera manicata

Gunnera manicata with flower-spike

One son and a pickaxe - digging a hole for a bath-tube, to be the new home for a Gunnera manicata. Now and then I waterlogged the tube by inserting an root-hosepipe and the plant grew very large, flowering and setting seeds. I propagated a new plant by cutting with a very sharp knife the fat new shoot, you can see on the picture. In late autumn I covered the plant with the huge leaves and when real frosts occurred I used more heavy material (Rockwool) . It never suffered, although we have down to 25 degrees C minus occasionally.

Lysimachia clethroides - loosestrife and Eupatorium purpureum - Joe Pye weed against Chamaecyparis pisifera filifera