thevictoriangardener

Dienstag, 28. Juni 2016

Selfmade garden ornament

Dear readers,
back when I was 15 I bought my own pottery oven and since then I have been enjoying doing my own ceramics for the garden. It is a great hobby, though quite time consuming and thus I do not always find time for pursuing my hobby and it gets a bit neglected from time to time. This year, however, seems to be a very creative one for me. I have been taking a lot of time for crafting my own ceramics for the garden as well as doing other garden projects, such as hypertufa. Today I´d like to show you one ceramic ornament I finished this week.

Have a great week!
Lisa

Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2016

Hydrangeas

Dear readers,
now that many roses have finished their first bloom, it is time for the hydrangeas to show their full beauty. Except one, which is planted in a flower bed, I cultivate all my hydrangeas in large pots and they have been doing great for years now. Apart from needing a lot of water on sunny days and some fertilizer in spring, they are very easy to maintain. They do much better in shady spots than in sunny ones, thus, they beautify shady spaces in the garden, in which plants such as roses might not grow. They are all "Endless Summer Hydrangeas" and as the name indicates, repeat flowering throughout summer as long as you cut back the old blooms.