House on a hill

It is a bit quiet these weeks with coloring and drawing and making items for my art-journals. There are other projects that need my attention. But there are stil drawings I haven’t showed, like the one above the text. It is a colored pencil drawing with fineliner. I think it is a nice composition. I like the hills and the houses. it is like a sea all those little colored hills.

The garden is also calling for attention. There is a lot to do. My hedges have to be removed. they are all eaten bij a moth in the summer of 2018. Only the part of the hedge that was near the lavender is still green. Removing the hedges will be a major operation for the garden will need a makeover after removing. But before we remove the hedges, we will cut the old branches of the shrubs and plants, so we see the snowdrops flowering.

I have to think what to plant instead of the hedges, maybe another kind of hedge or something totally different. Alice

Snowdrops

They are everywhere in the garden and they are flowering wholesale. Every year I give them away to people admiring them, but that doesn’t matter for new ones are taking their places. In a few years a barren place is newly dominated by the snowdrops again. I like the snowdrops and I am glad they grow in my garden abundantly. I remember walking to school, when I was young, and admiring a garden with snowdrops. I was mad about them and pitied my parents garden with no snowdrop at all. But I didn’t know in those days that snowdrops like special places to grow. They like to be in the shade and under trees. Furthermore you have to keep their growing place a bit tidy, no stakes or high growing plants. After the flowering you must give them some time to feed the bulbs again, and make new bulbs. Right after flowering you can give them an other place to grow or give them away to your neighbors and friends.

Alice

Spring

I like gardening. Yesterday it was such lovely weather, I took my gloves and tools and went outside to do some things in the garden. Snowdrops were peeping through the old leaves. Aconites sparkled yellow beyond the apple tree and the garden birds sang their tunes. It was nice to be outside and work. Old branches and leaves all disappeared in my basket and soon the garden was a bit more in order. I hope the sun will shine more days the next weeks so I can tidy the garden in the front and the the back.

Alice