Flordel's garden and other things...

[Flordel]

I should have begun this new thread with photos of my garden, but since there is still snow outside I am starting with some photos from last weekend at ski in the Carpathian mountains.
Stefanie wanted to see the mountains, Elemire and Serena are longing for snow, so here it is...

[admin]

Lovely shots, it is super warm here today (18°c) so the snow is long gone for us.

[elemire]

Oh that is sooooo pretty! I love the trees with that snowy look and I love the mountains!

[Stefanie]

WOW - it is like fairytale country Fordel. How absolutely beautiful!

Cant wait to see pictures of summer too. I never imagined Rumania so beautiful, now I can understand why uncle loved it.

Who is the person in the last picture - you?

[Flordel]

Thank you all for your kind comments!
Yes, it is me.

[Flordel]

The winter damage is beginning to show (all those gloomy days looking at online plant shops), meaning that the first parcel with ordered plants has just arrived...
Lilium Magic Star
Canna Red leaves
Viburnum opulus Roseum (can you believe I didn't have this one!)
Syringa vulgaris Congo
Weigela Alexandra
Calystegia hederacea Multiplex
Rosmarinus officinalis Prostratus
Pennisetum alopecuroides Moudry
Anemone x hybrida Pamina
No roses this time, another 3 orders must come in.

[Stefanie]

Lovely variety of plants Flordel - you must have a huge garden as some of those on the list can get pretty large (at least here in SA)

Your winter pictures are surely outdated now how about some Romanian spring photos for us?

[SerenaSYH]

Gorgeous snow Flordel! I was waylaid by several health issues! Lol, you look much younger than my actual age. I posted that in my thread, lol with dancing videos with Eluane! I'm almost 46. Looks like you had a fantastic vacation.....In the U.S. it's been unseasonably warm, but there was a snowstorm in the upper Northern East coast one time- just one time and I'm laughing my butt off because that's the way it's supposed to be, yet people were saying ooooo, Big Snowstorm!! In my days, snowstorms used to be very frequent in the winter so people make a big hubaloo on that single time, when it used to be a regular occurrence when I was a child growing up.

My roses kept trying to break dormancy the entire winter season. That's how bad Global warming was for us. We had 1/2" inch of snow that could only last for a forthnight and one snow that lasted 1/2 a day for 1". And that was it for the entire winter!!!! My TEA had NOOOOOOOOOOOO! WINTER DAMAGE! Green, green, green and it will be the first to bloom I think! It's got the most developed buds on it. I finally remembered to do styrofoam peanuts when we got some wild temp fluctuations late January. My climate has shot up to zone 8 it seems. The roses also INCREASED IN HEIGHT over the winter. It is the strangest thing. I was dumping all my coffee grinds into the garden all winter. :O I can't even recognize Folklore!!! It's catching up to my Lincoln's towering height! I was so shocked!

[Flordel]

Dear Stefanie, I have a medium size garden, it is about 500 square meters. You were probably referring to the viburnum that it can get quite large, that's intended for the garden at the vacation house. The liliac I want to shape into a tree so it won't occupy too much space.
I'll post spring photos in a while, right now most of the shrubs are about to bloom.
Serena, I've seen your videos and you are a beautiful woman.
Thank you for your compliment, but maybe from far away I look younger...
I'm glad you had so little winter damage, you were very much concerned about your teas. Buds already? That's fast!
I know you like Compassion, but a few days ago I've given it away to another rose lover, it had all canes black to the ground. I want to try with Crepuscule in its place. I've also taken out Herkules, a shrub rose, because I'm not into near white roses.
Even with the snow that we've had, I find that the soil is not that moist. I've watered all the roses.
I've done a lot of work during the weekend, pruning, cleaning... The dog was happy because he had company.
I've also planted some Hemerocallis (I love these because they require no special care) and Dicentra spectabilis. Today will try to plant the rest. I really have to move many plants, I'll be busy...

[Stefanie]

Can't wait to see pictures of your garden Flordel