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[SG] Introduction - long

Hello, everyone!

I have been lurking for a while, but have finally come around to introduce
myself properly.
I live in Stange, Norway in Norw. zone 4/5, and have a garden that varies a
lot in the shade/sun-department.

The house (and garden) are from 1932, and I'm sorry to say it has been badly
neglected over the last 5-10 years. This summer has been my first here, as
we moved in october last year and all I did then was throwing some bulbs
into the ground and plant a few herbs which I've brought from my previous
small garden before frost.

I had a goal this summer: To "clean up" the garden properly. From cutting
and thinning shrubs and such in spring, to weeding,
moving/replanting/dividing perennials... I am not near completion. The
garden consists of several areas:

- One area which can only be descibed as "wild, very wild" with a few dead
apple trees, one still alive, different fruit/berries like raspberry. I
managed to make a small strawberry patch (2,5x8m) last autumn but the weeds
have gotten the upper hand, so next year I'll lay down fiber cloth
underneath the mulch...The rest of this area is left for next year.

- I had sown some lettuce and tomatoes this year ( the latter will not
ripen, I think) and I'm planning a proper kitchen garden next year.

- Can someone please send me a greenhouse *grin*?

- There's an unkempt flowerbed around the house which I've literally have
dug into, I planted some poppy varieties (Siberian and oriental), a couple
of climbing roses (Flammentanz) and was happy to see quite a few lilium late
this summer.

- I have a lot of trees, mostly birches, on the property. East and north
side of the house is very shady, some areas to the south too - we're
situated in a very "hilly" landscape, which slopes downwards from south-east
to north. I have a very small natural stream across the garden which I made
a small 3x2,8m pond in early this spring; thus getting "automatic
circulation". The bog area already had an old rhododendron which seems to be
doing nicely, it has a couple of huge ferns at the base of it.

- I'm constructing a fragrant rose garden/ rose bed with white, pink and
purple roses.

- The rest of the garden is mostly weeds and some perennials. A few
beautiful Dianthus, Astilbes, siberian irises, campanulas, geums. A shady
flower bed with crazy combinations which I'm trying to clean up, *sigh*,
there's 2 clematis  "president", some unknown roses, lily in the valley,
dianthus which I added some hostas to.


Well, I could go on and on, but I'll stop here - I am working on a homepage
about the garden, mostly to keep a sort of "diary" for myself, but when I'm
presenting it online, I'll let you know!

I'm looking forward to exchanging ideas with you all, and have enjoyed the
group the weeks I've been lurking! Needless to say, I'm here to get ideas
and tips for the shady areas of the garden!

Best regards,
Iril

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Iril Kolle
Bjorkvang
2314 Espa
Norway
zone 4/5
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