Garden Pictures Chat Corner

Much was already established because of the old building,

For me, that is the most convincing argument in favor of existing buildings, that you don't have to wait forever for the Christ Child like on a new building field, to cultivate the desert. No drive-in pantry and no corner window in the guest WC can make up for it when, apart from the moss in the joints, nothing blooms.

That is of course true. But our house was also a new build in 1921 with a mud wasteland and its garden had to be newly laid out. That's just how it is and often unavoidable with new construction. I especially love my mature fruit trees and of course the seating areas, etc. If we had new construction, we wouldn’t even have had (garage, solid shed, greenhouse, everything was already there).

But that doesn’t matter now, a new layout also has its advantages! You can do everything as you think and want.

But that doesn't matter now, a new installation has its advantages!

... but it also takes time and you also want to enjoy it a bit before you retire and go on a world trip

That is correct. For example, I definitely want to plant a linden tree at our place. By the time one benefits from it, we will already be old. The same goes for the birch tree we planted last year; it won’t take as long, but still many years.

Now the Orchis is blooming

There you lie in bed in the morning, suddenly there is a rumble at the open skylight and this little guy here crash-lands next to our bed! One of the young blue tits that nest with us. So we caught him and held him out the window, but he just called for his parents and didn’t fly away. So down to the garden and placed him close to the nest box on the carport roof, then he flew off into the lilac next to the nest box. What a fluffy surprise for Mother's Day!