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Jul
27
Summer arrived!
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Finally a hot weekend with lots of icecream, a barbeque and lots of sitting outside in the shade talking about everything and anything 
One challenge now is to keep track of the weeds in the garden that have been growing the last few rainy weeks.
The best way is to go and sit on your knees and get rid of anything you don’t like by hand. But being a bit older, my knees don’t consider this the best way at all!
Therefore I use a hoe. Not a normal hoe, because that strains my back too muck. It’s a very old fashion hoe that you push in front walking backwards.
What I like about it is that you can put your body weight on it when pushing the blade under the weeds. Not at all tiring and my morning occupation of today. Since now it’s midday already: time to relax in the shade
Jul
15
Brugmansia plant
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Look how nice my Brugmansia plant is flowering already in its tiny pot! Maybe we don’t feel the summer too much, but the flowers can’t be fooled
Brugmansia is a plant I came to love only after re-seeding it time after time.
My first brugmansia’s hardly managed to survive, since brugmansia plant care is a busy job. My plants got eaten by snails attacked by white fly, spider mites and some invisible killers. Yet before the worst happened, I managed to get a few flowers and a few fruits. The latter means: lots of free brugmansia seeds!
The sprouts are plentiful and they surely look as if they are family of tomatoes.
But again: getting a seedling into a mature brugmansia plant is a daunting task until one day…
It seems I have now brugmansias that are fully adapted to my garden. I hardly look at them only to admire them when they are flowering
With all this in mind I must say that brugmansia propagation is quite easy when you have the patience to grow a few generations. It worked out fine with my brugmansia triple orange
If you don’t know which brugmansia to buy in order to have the least plant care to give: always ask your florist for brugmansia advice. He will be able to explain you everything you need to know about how to grow brugmansia.
Just keep in mind when they need to order brugmansias, it could take some time, as these plants seem to have some import restrictions due to being quite poisonous.
Just keep in mind these plants are from a warmer region, so make sure to put your brugmansia plant in pots and take them indoors in winter.
Jul
9
Why is it so cold?
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It’s July 9th and we just put on the stove in our house. It’s supposed to be summer yet the highest temperature we can get is 22 degrees.
Is the planet playing a trick on us? I mean winters aren’t as cold as they used to be, so global warming is there to stay. Especially when you know that the North Pole ice this year will disappear in summer for the first time!
Maybe it’s because the heat of the sun is needed to warm up the North Pole water, that we in the lower regions have less heat to share?
Maybe it’s just me wanting to enjoy my garden and not being able to due to rain every now and then. I do remember my hubbies holidays would start next week, and he always brought bad weather with him during his holidays
But what’s for sure is that our climate is getting extremely unpredictable!
