My garden in May
Mid-May, it’s hard to believe. When I open my curtains in the morning, I look outside directly into a green jungle. To be fair, I don’t really look into a “jungle” but my garden, and also all surrounding gardens, have pretty much exploded thanks to the warm temperatures and the necessary May rains. The fruit […]
Quick and easy – Tips for a relaxed garden party for Mother’s Day.
In German there’s a saying that translates something like this: “One should celebrate the festivities as they fall”. This has always been true and even more so in recent years. It will probably surprise no one, but I prefer to celebrate my parties in the garden. Whether it’s just a glass of rosĂ© after a […]
9 tips to make tulips last longer
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that last year in December, under the most inhospitable circumstances i might add, I put tulip bulbs in one of my low vegetable beds. These beds never get planted with vegetables until May, so they make perfect little cut flower beds. I love having vases […]
DIY flower garden – How to grow your own flowers
Every year, as soon as spring slowly announces itself and it is already properly itching in the fingers to get planting, there is hardly anything better than to start growing your own flowers. Among the many benefits of starting your flowers from seed are getting a head start on the season, access to many specialty […]
Late-winter flower planters for the garden
Oh hellebores, violets, cyclamen and the ever faithful ivy… they never disappoint. Even though it’s still around zero degrees outside most of the time and the weather changes so quickly between storm, snow, sun and back again that you get all dizzy, you can’t deny it, it already tingles quite a bit in the fingers. […]
Winter at the Botanical Garden Linz
Nothing in nature blooms all year long. This quote always comes to my mind whenever I look around outside in nature during the cold months. The nice thing is, there is no need to long for 365 days of colorful flowers, blooming perennials or green lawns. A garden, for example, when properly landscaped, is beautiful […]
Christmas flower show – Stiftsgärtnerei St. Florian
Merry Christmas!! On the 23rd of December you can definitely start wishing that! The laptops are powered down, all the to do’s are done at the last minute and slowly but surely the anticipation of Christmas is setting in, isn’t it? In this spirit, I would like to dedicate the last post of the year […]
Autumn Impressions from the cottage garden
Summer is slowely but surely coming to a close. Those warm sunny mornings are turning more and more in gloomy and grey days. However all those summer flowers and shrubs that we’ve planted, cultivated and cared for over the last few months provide us with more than enough pops of color to raise our moods. […]
DIY Hanging Fall planter
I must confess, when I think of „hanging baskets“, the first thing that comes to mind are those awful, knotted macramĂ©/pot constructions that were found in almost every apartment in the late 80s. Granted I was quite young in the late 80’s but these things were so awful (in my opinion) that they were literally […]
Zweigstelle Schwaigau
Well hidden and known only to locals and insiders, the ATZ (Arbeitstrainingszentrum) „Zweigstelle Schwaigau“ is located in the middle of the Upper Austrian Schwaigau. Admittedly, you have to know what you are looking for when you make your way to „Zweigstelle Schwaigau“. Even as a local, it took me a while to find out that […]