This is how my garden looked in may 2009. Last spring. Dalmatian and florentine Irises, alliums and other spring performers were at their top. This spring I waiting for a far better show as I have added some more decorative alliums to the composition and dozens of red and white tulips. LAst November I have [...]
Archive for March, 2010
12 Mar
march – snow in the garden
They say it’s the last snow before Springtime begins. It was a real heavy blizzard. Winds at 120 kmh, it snowed all day in Venice and in the other northern italian cities. But my garden under this white blanked is marvellous. Peaceful and quiet. The structure perfectly showing. The two pictures refer to the front [...]
7 Mar
March – who’s going, who’s coming
Friday I took a couple of hours before a meeting to cut down the Hydrangea’ spent flowers that I didn’t have time to cut in February when I cut back grasses, perennials and roses. Among the Pennisetum cuttings that I left on the ground the decorative alliums, irish onions and botanical tulips were showing their [...]
5 Mar
march-the first to bloom
As I wrote in my last post I was wondering which flower would have been the first to bloom. As I discovered this morning in the garden, during the quick but late cut of the hydrangeas spent flowers, there was no winner. There were many. The Camelia Sasanqua showed the first two deep pink flowers [...]
