After 40 years I have moved to just a tenth of my former garden. And this
time I start from scratch, just as the last time- and I feel it very
exciting! What I have had you can see in my homepage at the urg-website.(
A few last pictures will be added soon. And then gooodbye. No sad
feelings. A lifetime's work is finished and now comes the happy grande
finale- I hope;-)
What I got: at first a builders place with clay and gravel, later covered
with ready-made lawn. A strip between the house-facade and the street of
about 7 m and 25 m along in the southside, then to the west around the
corner another 12 x 6 m. And a little strip to the east of about 10 x 4 m.
I'm living in the basement of a two-stored house with 4 tenants. I think
i've got the very best situation according to sunshine! Nothing growing
around our two houses but a row a very good big rowans. Bless them, what
berries this year!
I started replacing the tiny ugly concret terrass with a spaceous 40 sq.m
lovely large slates, hoping for a lot of container-growing. And then I
planted a few Thuja occidentalis "Smaragd" by the terrace just to see the
effect. When spring comes I will plant this thuja all around the garden
onto the street to get some fast shelter- also in wintertime- I have no
time to wait for small bushes to grow big;-(It will cost me a fortune -
but the saying is: you can't take "it" with you, and my children aren't
so greedy that they make any complaints ;-)
Parallel with the 25 m of thuja-hedge at the south border I will plant a
similar hedge with a 2 m wide walk (perhaps I will use gravel on this walk
between the hedges to plant small things like thymus a.s.o. ) and then I
have some 3 m for a grass-walk along the side of the house.
Now is the URG-question coming up- at last: Outside my 5 windows I'm
thinking of constructing whitepainted open wooden screens 1 m from the
housefacade for the planting of roses and clematis. Imagine me sitting in
my kitchen or studio and looking out through the flowers rambling with the
sunlight shining through and in contrast with the green thujas! Wow!
Dreams!The substance of gardening.
I have not any experience of this special kind of gardening - up trailing
in trellage in stark sunshine - I with my old shady and bushy garden with
the oldfashioned rosbushes. What am I to grow? What am I to look out for?
Problems? Of course it is milder and damper in England, but I don't know -
the climat is obviosly changing this years, so perhaps I will have
UK-conditions in the future!
Excuse me for this long posting - but the dreams are forcing there way along.
Greetings from Vera

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VERA GADE NORRKOPING
VERA @GADE.SE