It can be very disheartening Rinus. Last year I came back from the Chelsea Flower Show to find a hailstone tornado had ripped through my garden shredding all my rhubarb and hostas, ripping clematis off their supports, decimating flowers and foliage, annihilating my baby veggies, chilies, toms and squashes and leaving great, pitted wounds on the stems of trees and shrubs and roses.
I felt almost paralysed for a week but gradually got all the damaged stems and foliage cut away and tidied up and everything did recover over the following months.
Courage - as they say in this part of Belgium, or Sterkte as they might say in Flanders.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hi Northern Lass2. I've seen the pictures of your garden and I must say GREAT.
My aim is to create something similar, with a little help from mother nature. But the summer storm wasn't the right help
As the dutch tv channels are crap I almost always watch BBC 1,2,3,4. Especially countryside programs and I envy your British landscape. I could move to the UK tomorrow but the wife doesn't want. (yet)
Kleipieper. We komen er wel weer door maar het is even balen.
I'am planning to visit the gardens of Mien Ruys in Dedemsvaart. Have you ever been there and if so is it worth the journey?
I know nothing can beat the British castle gardens and unfortunately we have to be pleased with less and smaller show gardens. Except Het Loo of course.
We thoroughly enjoyed it. She admired Gertrude Jekyll and was influenced by her in her own designs. The little town at the end with the clever wellies is Damme.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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It can be very disheartening Rinus. Last year I came back from the Chelsea Flower Show to find a hailstone tornado had ripped through my garden shredding all my rhubarb and hostas, ripping clematis off their supports, decimating flowers and foliage, annihilating my baby veggies, chilies, toms and squashes and leaving great, pitted wounds on the stems of trees and shrubs and roses.
I felt almost paralysed for a week but gradually got all the damaged stems and foliage cut away and tidied up and everything did recover over the following months.
Courage - as they say in this part of Belgium, or Sterkte as they might say in Flanders.
Hi Northern Lass2. I've seen the pictures of your garden and I must say GREAT.
My aim is to create something similar, with a little help from mother nature. But the summer storm wasn't the right help
As the dutch tv channels are crap I almost always watch BBC 1,2,3,4. Especially countryside programs and I envy your British landscape. I could move to the UK tomorrow but the wife doesn't want. (yet)
Kleipieper. We komen er wel weer door maar het is even balen.
Ja Rinus,
Absoluut waardeloos op het ogenblik!
Let's hope it'll be another hundred years before we get the next summer storm.
Rinus, don't forget this one tomorrow evening!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0649695
And have you seen De Tuinen van Kleijs opTV Gelderland?
En tegels eruit, tuin erin? Die staan nog op YouTube.
Thanks. I'll watch it for sure.
I'am planning to visit the gardens of Mien Ruys in Dedemsvaart. Have you ever been there and if so is it worth the journey?
I know nothing can beat the British castle gardens and unfortunately we have to be pleased with less and smaller show gardens. Except Het Loo of course.
Nope, never been to the gardens of Mien Ruys, so can't tell you if it's worth the trip.. Too far away for me
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Have been to Het Loo, mainly to compare it to the Hampton Court gardens. De tuinen van Kleijs visited Het Loo. Don't know in wich episode though.
They also visited Piet Oudolf in the final episode.
http://www.omroepgelderland.nl/tuinenvankleijs
Have you seen my thread about TV programmes on the web?
There are sometimes really nice programmes on all sorts of channels in Europe, so if you ever become bored...
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/the-potting-shed/garden-preogrammes-on-the-web/703047-7.html
Mien Ruys designed the gardens at Oostkerke near Brugge/Bruges in Belgium. I went there with my garden group in June 2006. Here are the photos if you're interested - http://s211.photobucket.com/user/Obelixx_be/library/0606%20Oostkerke?sort=2&page=1
We thoroughly enjoyed it. She admired Gertrude Jekyll and was influenced by her in her own designs. The little town at the end with the clever wellies is Damme.