Garden Pictures Chat Corner

Here almost all gardens are mulched until they grow over. Behind the old retaining wall comes a wide mulch strip, hoping that the plants won't like it. Everything that grows there has thorns, and it takes a while until it's nice. We can only work outside of the NESTING and breeding season. We do not want to disturb the life that exists there. Therefore, every autumn a piece is thinned out and planted in spring. Never everything and certainly not the really old stuff.

Everything just has to grow and a garden is never finished. This year we’ll be working on the next 200/250 sqm including the house entrance. The pallet stairs will disappear. Fence on the retaining wall and in autumn the first slope section thinned out and planted with ground cover.

There are no regulations here. It may be that something will come with the rock gardens in the new development area, although many here have had few so far.

Our regulations state: Enclosure as a hedge with native shrubs, then some examples are given. If you want an additional fence, it must be placed behind the hedge, at least 50cm set back from the boundary. Of course, that’s ridiculous, nobody except us has complied with that. I wanted a bird protection hedge anyway, and once it’s grown in, it’s so thorny and dense that no fence is needed – no one will voluntarily go through it. The others all have wire mesh fences with a hedge behind, the argument being: the hedge grows through the fence and you don’t see it anymore. Yeah, sure, except for the gabion parts (which are also not approved). I planted the 2nd “bed” the other day, simply into the meadow. And today I couldn’t pass by a broom bush, it smelled so good...

Until someone realizes that the regulations were not followed.

Such a bird protection hedge is already dense and thorny. You don't need a fence once it has grown.

What kind of butterfly nets are those?

Oh sorry, the rose question.. I have no idea whether the mulch likes them or not, nor do we have any roses yet. The grids are plain plastic, quite pretty from a distance, but rather ugly up close. But since I had them lying around, they are now serving as a marker in the ground until you can tell the difference between the lawn and the perennials. So that the child doesn't trample through there...

We would have had regulations, I specifically checked earlier. But almost no one complied, neither the shape of the fence nor where hedges are supposed to be / what they should consist of nor how many trees should be on the property. I also have to say that I can hardly imagine a pedunculate oak if it can actually grow up to 40 m tall. Who voluntarily puts something like that on a 600 sqm property? And no, I actually don’t want to cut down such a tree again just because it gets too big for me. Or would you do that? *pondering*

At least I already have two of the four required shrubs (my remaining ones do not match the required species). And as I already mentioned in the other thread, I still have to think about where to place the trees. Officially, ash, black alder, gray alder, cherry laurel, elm, hornbeam, birch, white willow or almond willow are still available for selection. But they all grow huge, don’t they!?!