Re: Garden size (was Cut back artichokes?)
georges-kiki wrote:
>
> My garden here in Belgium is also in its high season, full flowering. I am
> trying my best to grow as many mediterranean plants as the climat will
> afford me to. Which is problematic. I grow two three meter high fig trees,
> Eucalyptus pauciflora, lots of thymes, santolina neapolitana en
> chamaecyparis,lots and lots of lavender hidcote blue, lavender latifolia,
> and lavendula stoechas, rows of rosmarinus Jessicas Upright,nigella,rhus
> typhina,walnut,robinia pseudacacia tortuosa,buddleia .I let los of annuals
> seed themself,and pull them out where I don t want them. 45 rose bushes etc
> etc.. Iam afraid to tell on how little space I do all this...About 400
> square metres !
> I read all your letters every day,but am afraid to converse with such
> highly informated people. I wondered many times how big all your gardens
> are, compared with my poor 400 metres? But me and my husband enjoy it ever
> so much.Last year we brought an olive tree from Iannina Greece,suppose to be
> the hardiest kind?
> Lykissas G>
Hi
We did a rough calculation and ours comes out about twice as big, but
almost 1/3 of the ground is on quite a slope and this is mostly just in
lawn.
Moira
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata,
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
