Spring 2007 Part II

Encouraged by our success with the bulb garden, we decided to tear up a good part of the rest of our yard. We built an island in the center of our yard for the centerpiece, a Star Magnolia.



Based on a drawing I had made when I first started sketching out how I wanted the yard to look, we built a curving, winding border along one side of the yard to extend the already existing bulb garden to a much more extensive flower bed.





We planted shrubs and an herb garden. A beautiful white clematis was climbing up the lattice. I added pansies around the bulbs for some more color. I gave some seeds a try: Zinnias, Poppies, Cosmos, Beans and Narcissus.

The yard was looking good in no time and we were ready for summer!

Spring 2007 Part I

Spring 2007 brought two major events to our garden. The first was the blooming of all our bulbs. The first little crocus made its way out sometime in late March/early April. The days were very warm but the evenings crisp or even cold. Watching the various bulbs emerge and bloom throughout the spring was an experience for M. and myself.














Our success with bulbs encouraged us to take a bigger step... deciding gardening is not for the faint of heart we tore up a good part of the yard to expand our garden. More in Spring 2007 Part II...

Jan 06 to Mar 06

In January 2006 I moved to Munich from the US. I have a blog to tell the stories of being an expat but decided to start this second blog, a sort of home diary, to keep track of our garden and home projects that are not of general interest to the 1 or 2 readers of my other blog.

So where to begin? When I moved here in January we had a rectangular patch of grass covered with snow, surrounded by hedges that grow thick and green in the summer. We discussed doing some landscaping projects and even consulted with a landscaper/gardener but do to the uncertainty of how long I would stay, that first summer passed by with no changes to the yard. Our one big investment was in our Ikea patio furntiture and a Weber grill. Good investments I might add.

A first look at the back yard (too cold to go outside):


World Cup 2006 (furniture & Weber grill well used!):


Summertime Yard View:


At the end of the summer, we decided to start our first project, a bulb garden. I had passed through Amsterdam and couldn't resist stocking up on a bunch of bulbs to kick start our gardening adventures.




Winter came again but this time spring was going to look a little different.