Hi there I'm gnome Joop. I have been standing in this garden for quite
some years now. You may think this is a beautiful garden - at least the lady
owner is quite enthusiastic about it - but in my opinion it is rather disappointing.
Let me show you around.
Here you can see me standing on the sidewalk along the garden. Note that
the hedge is much too high. The lady owner says that's against the deer!? As if
deer could be bothered about such a tiny hedge! Furthermore I would think the
border itself sure could do with some attention. It would improve a lot. Let's take
a walk to the front garden.
Here I am in the front yard, at the opposite side of the hedge that is.
She writes lyrical about blooming snowdrops here, but I cannot seem to find
them, do you? And what about the grass? It is up to my knees! Well I have had it
over here, lets walk along the barn to her picking garden. The place where in
general you can find me standing under the Hazelnut tree.
Here we see a part of that picking garden. Ever since she has trimmed
the Hazelnut tree (on the left side of the bucket) I suffer from the rain and
the sun. As you will understand that did not any good to me or my clothing. But
my opinion, has never been asked. She completely ignores me as if I were not
there!
On the far side of the barn there is another problem area. Why does she
keep all these old garbage cans? And what purpose serve these pots with Hosta
on top of these cans? What a mess!
A
little bit further in the garden we get to, what she calls the “long border”.
Long border? Maybe for a gnome, but for humans this border is not that long at
all. There are three fruit trees in this border, which she pruned this week. At
the end of this border you can find her plastic greenhouses. Let's take a look
She had filled these plastic greenhouses with flower bulbs in pots. Why?
There are already thousands of flower bulbs in her garden! You can find her in
these greenhouses almost every day, looking at the bulbs. Nonsense of course!
Flower bulbs do not grow quicker by looking at them.
Let us
look the other way around to the “boxwood” garden. She keeps calling this garden
area that way, although she cleared all the boxwood from this garden last autumn. Silly woman. It is very spacious she says nowadays. Bare would
be a better word to my opinion.
The greenhouses in the background, that is where we were a few moments
ago. This is the terrace by the kitchen, with the basket of ornamental
cabbages. Well, I must admit, these cabbages still look nice. We once more go
around a corner. Thus we arrive at a mini garden.
Do you see that moss on the paving? If it goes on growing like this, eventually
you will not be able to see any paving at all! Here she has planted some special
snowdrops she says. I'll show you.
They are white and large!?
Once again around another corner. The street is behind the hedge on the
right. In this section of the garden we find an olive tree. This year it actually
looks green. You should have seen it last year, not a leaf in sight. The other
plants there are called Mattiola. In winter they smell like cauliflower. Not my
cup of tea.
We have arrived in the front yard again. I think we can all agree that there
was not that much to see in this garden. Now you know that it is best to take
everything she writes with a grain of salt.
See you next time,
Gnome Joop
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