It took the council a while (and they’ve probably forgotten whose idea it was in the first place anyway), but they’ve certainly got cracking in the beautification department, with just…
Finally! Temperatures up in the 20s, spring bulbs ablossoming, bees abuzzing and the first bike ride of the season. And all this just minutes before the summer solstice….
I’ve always associated canaries with feathers and coalmines. Definitely not with Erisymum. Maybe someone has an explanation. In the meantime, here’s a true story: My uncle John (Group Captain, RAF…
When a city’s well over 2000 years old, you’re likely to find a fair bit of Bryophyta clinging to surfaces. Call it patina…..
And they looked so attractive in summer….
Stood under here for AT LEAST 10 minutes. Nothing happened. It’s either because it’s not New Years Eve yet or it’s me. Probably the latter. (But I’ll try again next…
Karina Jungenheimer on the market (Friday and Saturday, Tuesdays by special request) makes this stuff. I can’t get overly excited about it, but it attracts flocks of birds in great…
You’ll find Fina Alonso at the market in Bad Kreuznach on a Friday. And at Frank and Ingrid Jung’s Open Studio event in autumn. Not that I’m one of her…
Seen at Karina Jungenheimer’s open day in (sister) Rosi Nauth’s wonderful courtyard. Head: Peter Krings, chair seat basketry Hands: Rosi Nauth Feet: Unknown customer with Physallis Head, Hands and Feet? …
Gudrun Klag’s excellent flower stand on the market in Mainz is a perfect indicator of the seasons. Their bunches start out as “Mainzer Frühling” [Spring], change to “Mainzer Sommer” [Summer]…
It’s not that I’m paranoid, but these sunflowers keep following me… Now wonder the Italians call them Girasole. Trivia alert: That’s where Jerusalem Artichokes come from. Although the plants are…
…mallow yallow Malven around here. Wonder if they have anything to do with the salt people…?
…same price. 3 weeks later
The park-that-used-to-be-the-old-shunting-yard-on-the-banks-of-the-Rhine-in-Bingen-until-it-hosted-the-State-Horticultural-Show-in-2010 is always worth a visit. (Even if those bloody pensioners shout at you for cycling in an utterly deserted park…) For the past 2 years, they’ve featured a…
And if it keeps up like it’s been for the last couple of days, I’d be prepared to pay…um…€7.10?
Mixed salad greens (and oranges…) at the market
can-can…
Horrendousness at the local plant megastore
..a boy was playing cricket The ball ran up his… The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of…
Marienborn Cemetery wall. Don’t know who the tree belongs to…
Injuns Ethnic Americans appear to have invaded Mainz. If they don’t move their teepees from the flowerbeds, I shall Sioux….
Someone told me these were pot plants. Dried the leaves, rolled a decent sized blunt and took a surreptitious drag. Not much of a buzz and somehow it tasted different…
When a Sempervivum gets too big for its boots pot, I simply break off the rosettes and propagate them in 1/3 compost, 1/3 potting mix and 1/3 sharp grit. Dead…
Potting bench in Odile’s greenhouse.
There’s a new club. Friends of Odile‘s Garden Costs €36 ($50-ish) a year and you get a badge, priority bookings at events and the chance to sit around regularly for…
I just DO like Spring…
…inquired a convalescing Warrior Cyclist. “Not too bad” said the picture in considerably fewer than 1000 words.
“Worth”, of course, then needs a new definition “The level at which someone or something deserves to be valued or rated” Not.
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