Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

Ah, this is the one. "Clematis viticella 'Madame Julia Correvon'

It is growing by our carport on a trellis and I am currently training it up the pear tree with kitchen twine. It gets sun there from about 2/3 pm.

Great, I'll keep an eye out for that!

No fear of wisteria. Children learn to handle plants. Poisonous and inedible plants can also be found in public spaces – whether wisteria, cherry laurel, potato, daffodil, rhododendron, bleeding heart, giant hogweed, foxglove, monkshood, cyclamen, boxwood, ivy, hydrangea, laburnum, deadly nightshade, tuberous leaves and other mushrooms, yew, rowan berries, even beech nuts in the wrong amount... – so show children nature in the garden from the start, this way they learn how to deal with both tasty and poisonous plants. Parents should also know how to deal with poisoning symptoms: drink plenty of water, activated charcoal tablet, and go to the doctor – no milk or induce vomiting.

From tomorrow, Aldi will have various plants on offer. And also more terrace or garden furniture.

8.99 for balcony/terrace plants
19 cm cultivation pot; pyramid, stem or bush; various varieties

3.99 for hanging plants
In the 25 cm hanging pot; with approx. 30–40 cm long tendrils; various varieties

1.79 for mini petunias
Mini petunia trio, in the 12 cm cultivation pot, or two-colored petunia, in the 15 cm cultivation pot

Maybe there’s something there for someone

No matter how well you teach children to handle plants and the garden, up to a certain age they are simply not mentally capable of properly assessing it. It goes well 2000 times... Then they do some nonsense.

There is a huge difference whether they grow in the wild or in the garden, where small children play much more unsupervised than roaming freely somewhere outside. As soon as they reach an age where they wander around outside the garden alone anyway... I agree with you, then it no longer matters.

We currently handle it this way (our youngest is 2), that we do not plant highly poisonous things in the garden... Wisteria and Christmas rose, for example, never, because they can have severe to fatal consequences. Usually it goes well, but why take the risk. Plants that are only slightly toxic and cause stomach aches etc are planted normally.

I am also torn about our children, who will soon be 4 and 6. We also have ivy and some other poisonous things, but nothing potentially highly toxic and nothing that really "invites" snacking, like poisonous berries, for example. I haven't even planted beans so far because I thought it was too risky. I can say 100 times that you shouldn't eat them raw, but the 101st time they'll make a bean salad. Everyone has to decide for themselves, but I wouldn't deliberately plant that with children. Since last year, our children have also been in the garden unsupervised sometimes. I am usually inside the house or so, but I don't have them in sight. That's why we also removed the huge old enamel tub from the garden, which used to lie there as a small pond in the ground. I had told them endlessly not to go near it, and one winter day I was briefly in the garden with the children. Then I wanted to go inside; I already went into the house with the older one at the front, and the younger one stayed outside for another 2 minutes. We hadn't even taken off our shoes yet when there was a scream, and the younger one came running, soaking wet. She had gone to the pond with a bucket, must have slipped and fallen in. In under 2 minutes. If she had fallen badly, I wouldn't have noticed in time. I probably would have checked after another 2-3 minutes. That made me realize that you really can't rely on that (she was 2.5 at the time), and now we more consistently avoid such hazards in the garden. A fence would, of course, have been possible too, but it wouldn't have looked nice, and the thing wasn't pretty anyway.