A Garden Revisited

Garden with a view

I revisited Merete and Ejners garden. First visit was in spring, this second visit was after the first frost. The garden is situated in a village, with a view over field and wood.

Sage (Salvia officinalis)

The huge sage with the wrinkled stems made me think of
the oldest oak in Denmark. Age is an important dimension in our garden plants. Never saw a more beautiful sage.

Kirsten and Merete deeply engaged in garden talk

People fond of gardening always talk a lot, when we meet in a garden. It still surprises me, how different we people can grow our gardens. Even with same plants in same climate. We ate us through the different fruit trees; cooking apples, table apples, pears, prunes, filberts and grapes.

Old grape wine growing in the apple trees

A very old grape wine has conquered the tops of some of the apple trees. In old days there was a greenhouse around it, but since it perished, the grape wine has continued to grow with no protection. Could it be the old variety Frankenthaler?

Leaf chicory

There still is a lot of vegetables in the garden. The leaf chicory was served for lunch – mmm…. We also had leek and a mayonnaise spiced with ‘Susan Delafield’ garlic.
Thanks for a nice day.

 

Grape seedlings

Seedlings of grape pottet up for the winter.

Last summer small seedlings of grape came up around the red grape Rondo. I took care not to kill them when weeding. There’s almost no doubt about that Rondo is the mother, but the fatherhood is uncertain. Could I hope it is Himrod, the green seedless grape, not far away? It would be nice with a seedless Rondo.
The small seedlings now stand in the shadow of the hazel. The are small and hardly noticeable in the photo, but they are in the seven pots standing shoulder to shoulder. In pots behind is Phlomis and a sibirian bushy cherry species.

It’s probably necessary to evaluate up to 10.000 seedlings before you find a good new variety. I catch the chance anyway. Partly because I could be lucky with one of the seven, and partly because I guess other garden geeks do like me – together we have a very good chance to find the good seedling, at least after some years. TTT – Things Take Time.

Rondo, before ripening.

Rondo is a interspecific variety, one of the grandparents being the amurgrape growing wild along amur river in north east asia. Other parents are european grapes. The amurgrape has added hardiness and reliable ripening without the need for a warm wall or a greenhouse.