Drifts of colours!

I have visions of drifts of colours, wild flower fields, bushels of tomatoes and much more but.....
I'm wondering,
how do I start the new garden?

A mixed garden, between wild flowering and planted olive trees.
Maybe I need to make a planting scheme what would be like a garden recipe. You need the correct balance of ingredients — trees, shrubs, perennials and ground cover — to make it work.
I would like to make borders as wide as I can.

I Started sowing seeds indoors one month ago. Our bedroom seems to be a greenhouse now. I love to sow because it's a big surprise all summer long seeing growing and blooming from a little teeny seed a beautiful flower. It allows you to grow plant varieties in your garden that are special and unusual. It's easy, so it takes just a little bit of your patient.
My method is the most easy and economical one. I sow seeds into reusable or recycled containers. These containers have drainage, and are able to be moved easily. I make sure the growing medium is moist, and place the seeds at the depth recommended by the packet, then I place a plastic dome on. After a while you will see moisture condense inside the dome. This is great for starting out, as the heat and moisture is trapped in. However, once seedlings start to appear, you MUST remove the dome to prevent "damping off" a fungal disease that will kill the seedlings. Add water as necessary to keep the soil moist, but not wet. Once the seedlings are up, they must have very bright, though not direct light. I'm using the windowsill and from outdoor it looks quit funny.
My little seedlings are looking happy and they are growing day after day.
The problem is I have still a lots of seeds to sow. On internet I found the most beautiful and interesting seeds. That made that I couldn't resist the temptation to buy.
Could you?

Suzanne.







Sowing:

* Margherita Gigante Bianca
* Nasturtium Black Velvet
* Nasturtium Majus " Jewel of Africa "
* Sweet Pea Fragrantissima
* Physalis Peruviana Edulis
* Sanguisorba Minor
* Aster " Starlight Mixed "
* Lobelia Siphilitica
* Veronica Spicata
* Cephalaphora aromatica


photo: Becca James

Seeds

" Emotions Are The " Creative Seed "
That Determine Your Experience
In Day To Day Life "
( Chuck Danes )














Sowing:
* Tomato Gartenperle
* Tomato Tigerella
* Cosmos bipinnatus " Antiquity "
* Poached Egg Plant



photo, Ben Visbeek

Garden dreams!

This morning even between cold air and some rain drops, you could feel that spring is in the air.

At the house I started to look around trying to imagine a dream garden.

Right now we are far away from a beautiful country garden.

There is almost no form at the 6000 meter garden.

Oepssssssssss even the word garden is out of contest.

Stones everywhere and thrash from the restoration to clean up.

From tomorrow we will start to clean up the whole aria.

Also our 8 Olive trees are looking sad and maybe they need some attention.

They need a cut back and tomorrow with my garden scissors I will make that they look a bit better.

Some where we need to start even if…… truly I don’t know to much where to start!

Suzanne.

Greenhouse and flower girl diary!

Flower, flower grow for me,
Become a flower from a seed,
Grow your roots and a stem,
Let the water come right in

Flower, flower you are true,
You make me happy when I am blue,
You became a flower from a seed,
You did all that just for me

Greenhouse and flower girl:

life amongst the garden of our Tuscan country house.

Online diary of a fresh born flower girl who, while trying to create a country garden in Tuscany, hopes to organize her gardening activities.

What I’m going to “ TRY “ is to keep an online journal on how I proceed through the sowing, growing season by chronicling a year's worth of gardening activities.

I wish my self good luck.....

and plenty of time ( with I don’t have …hi ) to be faithful to the plenty actions to follow.

Suzanne.