Gardens around Amsterdam and Paris next week
lyannastark9b
6 years ago
Hi folks, we're going to be in and around Amsterdam and Paris for a couple weeks starting next Tuesday (woohoo!) and I'm wondering if there are any gardens that might have some fall roses? There's THE rose garden of course but anything else you can recommend, including cemeteries or random little churchyards or such things? I'm assuming there will be at least a handful of things in bloom, right? I like other flowers too obviously but you're the rose people! Are the Malmaison gardens worth a look? Fontainbleu?
**Just wanted a cover photo. Pretty much my only sort of successful rose this summer, a teeny little Souvenir de la Malmaison bloom from like an 8" tall band. But it's been feeling like fall much much earlier than usual and I am so excited about it I'm wearing boots and making gumbo and I can't get any laundry or packing done cause I never want to come in from the porch. Let's go, sad little summer roses, it's time to shine!
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Comments (12)Ah floota. A beautiful garden and a beautiful space! Your tour vistors are in for a treat. What is the marvelous four-petaled magenta bloom in the third picture? Your entire garden is lovely. I enjoyed this picture tour very much indeed! It is a beautiful place to see, and I am sure it is wonderful to visit. kay...See MoreMaybe pretty chilly mid-week next week?
Comments (25)Lee, You're welcome. When you used the word 'panic', I wondered if I should be panicking too. I'm glad to hear the answer is no. : ) It is a great relief that the Euro is backing off a bit on the freezing temperatures. Let's hope that the chances of frost start dropping too. I hope you have a great visit with your parents, and I hope the weather behaves itself so y'all can have a good time together without having to run for shelter. I can handle frost. Freezes worry me, even with row cover, but mostly because all the trees, shrubs, perennials, etc. are emerged and leafed out and I cannot cover the whole yard. My hollies (old and well-established) suffered massive damage when we went to 28 degrees, and normally that wouldn't happen. However, we'd been having a lot of days in the mid-80s or warmer, and nights in the 50s-60s, and the hollies had lots of new growth that wasn't conditioned to sub-freezing temperatures. On the other hand, Johnson Grass growing outside my garden fence and attempting to creep into the garden froze back to the ground. Of course it isn't dead, but at least it has been set back for a while. For future reference, to find row cover and frost blanket fabric in large enough sizes to cover anything you can envision, you can visit the website of Agricultural Solutions. That's where I find my frost blanket. I bought it in 12' widths, but they have it available in many widths---some of which are so huge that they clearly are aimed at commercial farms. Most places have it in only more narrow widths. I like the 12' width because you can cover a row of fairly tall (well, fairly tall for early in the season) plants with it. If you buy a roll they have it folded in half on the roll, which helps keep the shipping charges lower since it is a box a little over 6' long instead of 12' long. The very first row cover fabric I bought around a decade ago was 6' wide which sounds good, but really isn't. I was using it on 4' wide beds, so I couldn't cover a whole bed with it once the plants were any taller than 11-12". I've discovered that with row cover, wider is better, particularly since I grow in raised beds that are mostly 4' wide and often I have some plants that are knee-high to waist-high by the time the last threat of frost has passed in the first week of May. If the strong storms the next few days don't pound our plants into the ground or carry them away with the wind, we all might get to begin the month of May with gardens that are in pretty good shape. I like the idea of cooler temperatures. The longer we stay cool in Spring, the better the cool-season crops will produce, and the better the fruit set on the tomato plants. I did look at my Accuweather forecast the last couple of days since it goes out farther than the NWS forecast on the Norman webpage and farther than our local TV forecast, and it showed my lowest low next week of 43. Today that's been raised to 45. I'm starting to feel a lot better about next week's weather, but that doesn't mean I will become complacent and stop watching the forecast. I'll be watching it like a hawk. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: One Source for Large Sizes of Row Cover This post was edited by okiedawn on Wed, Apr 23, 14 at 12:09...See MoreTouring Mel's Garden Next Week
Comments (3)Mel actually lives in a condo now and has a great patio garden with tomatoes growing up trellises and the plants all at thight height in containers. We went over and saw Karen's full-scale garden and it was beautiful! I was so inspired. Picket fence around the whole thing and such great vertical crops. I'll try to post a picture or two after I get my film developed. Mel is a character and fun to talk with. It's great to see how passionate he is about SFG- even now 20 years after the original edition of the book. There is a new edition coming out soon. Mel's shifting focus a little (well, has been for a few years) on teaching people in 3rd World countries how to do SFG- not the farmers but the average person who could certainly use the added nutrition a SFG can provide within limited space. Most of the money he makes from SFG is funneled into this cause. I'll be writing some grants for them to see if we can spread the news to the little villages where it could make such a difference....See MorePossible biggest freeze since 2007 next week.
Comments (62)Lots of those little microclimates in the Bay Area. Inland where I am is a lot dryer. We haven't gotten as much as other places inland... but I love the rain we have gotten! It's the snow and ice that helps the drought the most. Here's a good article on the current state of the CA drought. Making headway, but not over. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theweathernetwork.com/us/amp/news/2017-pacific-storms-take-a-big-bite-out-californias-drought/78018?client=safari...See Morelyannastark9b
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Lisa Adams
6 years agoLyanna, I have not forgotten about you! I have asked my Tante Marieke about gardens( I emphasized roses) around Amsterdam. She is checking with my cousins, as they may know better. I'm just awaiting her reply. Will you be in France or Holland first? Will you be able to access this forum while abroad? Please take lots of pictures to share with us. We would all love to see them. Here's a picture of my Tante Marieke, her daughter Elda, and myself in my backyard. They were just here in May. Lisa
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