Garden Pictures Chat Corner

Every year birds nest in the vineyard at my parents' place. Among them is the favorite sleeping spot of the Katzingers. Every year the Katzingers get a bit ruffled and look for another place. This has been going on for generations of cats and birds.

The bed mixture sounds good too. I find it nice when something is always missing. In the area of natural, low-maintenance there is so much choice.
My little prairie bed is also really low-maintenance and that in its first year.

Sounds good! Looking forward to the photos.

There are several such perennial mixes – as I said, we have "Feuer und Flamme." They were scientifically composed at a university with the aspect of being natural, low-maintenance, and always something blooming. There are various mixes for different locations and requirements. In autumn we add bulbs here, but now was simply the totally wrong time to plant them. And I also got a flowering calendar where I can check what the stuff blooming now is called or vice versa: I can already look forward to when something is supposed to bloom next month.

My brother currently has a blackbird’s nest in his espalier pear tree. He says he’s slowly getting used to being attacked by an agitated blackbird every time he leaves the house *g*. Obviously, the bird doesn’t learn that he’s not harming her and continuously defends her nest. But well, bad choice of location. I wouldn’t pick a tree right next to a house entrance!

Do we need to worry that your brother has a blackbird’s nest in the pear tree? Ah, that reads so nicely...-

But the 1.2m next to our hanging garage seriously disturbed the privacy.

Strange.... you're badmouthing the short piece of reed mat of your neighbors.. On your side I see a gigantic wall. Height including L-stones on the neighbor’s side definitely 3....4 meters, right??? I would really be very unhappy about that as a neighbor..

Steffi, the thing was built there at the express request of the paranoid neighbor. I wouldn’t have needed it, but we just wanted peace – which we probably won’t get anyway.
Today I really ask myself why we shelled out a higher four-figure amount for it. She wanted a privacy screen ("as high as possible!!!") and asked us to take care of it because there was absolutely no space on her property. Strictly speaking, she actually has just as much space as we do.
Actually, she could have done it herself, we’re not paranoid...
Anyway, it’s done. And when I look at this mat, it was probably better that we took it into our own hands. Who knows how it would have turned out otherwise...
But it’s according to the motto: I want it like this please – and everyone has to make it happen according to her opinion. Unfortunately, we let ourselves be pulled into her plan out of misunderstood neighborly kindness.
Whatever, it’s done. At least it was done properly. Otherwise, maybe we would have had one wicker mat after another...
It was done with her express and written consent. Without it, we would have kept to the permitted 2m following the terrain.
I had actually planned it that way because I didn’t want to discuss it with her anymore, but our gardener wanted it to look "nice" and got the signatures.

Our green manure is starting to bloom and the bumblebees love it. It's almost 200 sqm that we have "planted" with it to improve the soil and at first, we couldn't think of anything better. Otherwise, the area would have lain fallow and the weeds would have grown even more.

I think it's great! Our neighbors had a beautiful poppy meadow as green manure before the tomatoes, it was really very beautiful and just a single buzzing of insects in it.