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Recommendation: The flowers - Advent Calendar

Some of you might know him already, the Advent Calendar of flowers, a group of garden and plant friends, put together the twenty-four door with pictures, articles or reports, thus shortening the waiting time for Christmas - or the stress is reduced at this time. Meanwhile, the Advent calendar is in his eighth season. Tomorrow we start with the first door, I'm looking forward (just click on the link below).

The Advent calendar of flowers

The garden has now snowed and the first time really frozen, but not the numbers very impressive, that we live very close to the Alps (-9.9 ° C and scarce snow 8cm) - somehow have all been taking more winter than we do, even the above photo I had from last year. Shade perennials

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The production of leaf mold and grass

If you like and like plants, will be to face sooner or later with plants which are rich, well drained forest floor like it or need it even to develop well may - no later then arises the question of how to make humus rich soils formed in the garden and which requires substrates, in order to achieve the desired conditions. Basically, mulch, mulch, mulch. First of all, with leaves, but also with a wood shredder, cutting shrubs, small twigs, pine litter, Grass clippings and all other things, loosen the soil and slowly decay.

In the pictures above you can see the vast amounts of branches and wood chips, I pick-up every year with neighbors and the whole family, with a truck to drive us, and then shred with my friend in early April, several days of work.

On the right you can see the fresh pile of shredder from April 2009 (the year's I have unfortunately not photographed, he was about twice as large). In addition, no less valuable material stored: leaves that I got from a plot of my family, which is located near the forest, meet together and to my Services have moved. There are about 35 large bags of leaves, tightly compressed, sometimes a lot more that I let any fall or even in spring also reverse actions by truck and then store a season.

I am a lazy Kompostiererin and turn the pile never, not once I let him be simple - half under a Pear Tree, half in the sun - and wait until the foliage is falling apart. Sometimes I get a few shovels to mulch the beds shadow, but by and large, the foliage is a year around untouched.

now in the fall of both clusters have collapsed heavily on the right is collected but already the first leaf of this year. Among them, however - you can see where I've dug - the wonderful leaf mold has formed, which is still riddled with twigs, leaves harder species and cattle parts, very ideal for many shade perennials, but especially for Hepatica. Now in the fall, I shovel some of this earth to the side in order to spring him have available, either for new beds, order or Einpflanzaktionen or just to sprinkle on the black patches.

The earth is not quite finished, but that is not even intended, because the more solid components keep the soil loose. My foliage collection includes many different types of leaves, but primarily beech, oak, hazel, lime, maple, ash, pear, alder and walnut. Now in the fall of the earth smells wonderfully of forest and I'm looking forward to spring when I can give you very soon in the shade plants.

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companion just before winter

Before the snow comes (and I hope it is what this week!), I want to show some late-autumn perennials combinations from my high perennial beds. Especially nice were presented in recent weeks, the grasses - especially brachytricha Calamagrostis, Deschampsia caespitosa and Pennisetum. You know this already Beetausschnitte from earlier pictures, but now almost any Green out of them vanished and only the stems and withered flowers decorate now. However, I was surprised how much structure is preserved in spite of everything yet! see above: Agastache, asters, grasses.

From early summer until now very grateful Verbena bonariensis and the already much praised Umbelliferae Selinum wallichianum. Both are very stable and sturdy, so they certainly could also survive the winter - except the weather will be illegal. On the left you can see next to the seed heads of Eupatorium maculatum agrimony 'Big Screen'.

From the sun shines through all the perennials seem even now beautifully and also bring wealth and abundance in the beds. If I had everything cut away, one would see here a completely flat, langweilie surface.

The stars are gradually waning, despite their superb - a curl to the leaves to break down the seed heads - the grasses. Especially the bright light against a dark background seed heads and prove more effective than long-distance to its flowering in midsummer.

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November sun

Actually, I would write here rather than snow and frost, but now seems to the winter are still a few weeks. Thanks hair dryer, the temperatures climbed today to nearly 17 ° C, and bestowed a great garden day. Through the few frost to now, many green leaves and a few perennials bloom too. Here you see the Schattenbeet on the terrace, Epimedium x rubrum with, Carex, Brunnera, Polystichum, Helleborus foetidus, and others.

flourishes in gravel bed only now Aster pringlei 'Monte Cassino'. In the foreground stands the leaves of Crocosmia 'Lucifer' in the picture, far right you can see a part of Acanthus leaves and very little left from Romneya coulteri. Otherwise, in the gravel bed, the heyday for this year is over. I have put with onion plants and many Alliums the zenith in the spring and early summer and lack of space to the many fall perennials for this area rather avoided. Maybe once I put a pebble garden with a different focus, in that here it is already pretty tight.

In the perennial border by the year 2009 now, with little flowers. It lives by the autumn colors, the withered stalks - as here Phlomis tuberosa 'Amazone' and the types of perennials. Tipping parts, I'll cut in the next few days, so some beautiful plants stand out better, the rest is available through the winter and will hopefully soon with frost covered.

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still it blooms ....

Great contrasts arise in the moment in the gravel bed. The brilliant red background is a normal red barberry, including Panicum virgatum lights 'Warrior', which grows very straight upright and has a beautiful yellow in autumn. To the right is the Feast of Crocosmia 'Lucifer', which begins slowly wither from the tips of her. Also in the picture: left Aster pringlei 'Monte Cassino', in front of lavender, sedum, a solitary ground-cover rose and a book.

is still in bloom in Strobilanthes rankingensis (in the network there is also the name S. rankanensis, and I'm not sure if it's the same kind). The genus Strobilanthes has many garden worthy representatives of the, although praised for years in garden blogs, catalogs and on websites of gardeners, still practiced on a little. The plants are from the Himalayas, where they form of rich, misty forests of large bushes. Very sensitive to the various species are also with us but not enough not to dry any location in partial shade them to thrive. The species is shown to a height of 70cm and is on highly branched branches numerous light purple flowers that in late summer to frost (and obviously even later) . Appear
caution is appropriate in the spring, because the plant is driving only very late and could therefore easily be forgotten or overlooked. Determined this way would also be on the north side of perennial beds to good use, possibly related to Persicaria amplexicaulis, grasses, Leucanthemella or white anemones.

in the garden last year one of their species is Aster tataricus, an impressive game with Aster krenartigen leaves, very rapid growth in rich soils and up to 2m high stature. They bloom until the end of October and goes so well with attractive seed heads of other perennials or Boltonia, late chrysanthemums or even trees with red autumn color.

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shade beds during the year

When browsing photos of my garden this year are two perspectives I have noticed that I have photographed at least twice: once in mid-June and again in early October. They show the shadow area in two apple trees, a walnut and a hedge, which is equipped with my spring shade perennials, hostas and many bulbous plants. Unfortunately there is no spring view, but I'll subsequent filing next year.

The left opposition fall particularly Astilboides tabularis, Fallopia japonica 'Variegata' un the various Hosta on. The right image is particularly the swing of the beds and the light mood. For two photo-times barely bloomed plant, what shade beds is not necessarily typical, except they are filled mainly with spring flowers and foliage shrubs, as I ;-).

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shade beds before winter

spring shade beds planted with mainly geophytes see in the fall, they are empty. From previous transplantation experience wiser, I add now no more plants, "because it is so empty," but wait until spring - when everything is full wiedr anyway. Visually, the beds are currently no special experience, but they see not messy, because many plants either completely recovered or are they grown so high. Work make the shade beds now no more. I sprinkle each autumn, some leaves on the surfaces and cut soon back in the spring, because many plants sprout as early as March.
In the photo above you can see a pretty hederifolium cyclamen, a rosette of Chrysosplenium macrophyllum, a leaved Golden Saxifrage and also Hepaticas and Epimedium protrude into the picture.

Some plants, such as Lamium maculatum this 'Pink Pewter' or right Corydalis cheilanthifolia drive, even now in late autumn more new leaves and thus bring color into the flower beds. The shown Corydalis is a particularly beautiful plant that casts bronze in spring and has yellow flowers.

The time of the ferns this is over. Except for the evergreen ferns such as Polystichum that until the spring green fronds bear, wither and decay, most with the first frost. You can dry your own fan but definitely leave, as some are stable and thus bring some structure into the otherwise empty shade beds.