A long weekend in our garden!

 

As we have a long weekend here in Belgium and the weather forecast is very promising, we certainly will enjoy our garden!

Tomorrow Jan will finish some jobs that have to be done in our garden. He wil lay bricks for a flight of steps, add some gravel to the paths and will start the lay out of our vegetable garden! But that’s for tomorrow! Today we will relax and enjoy our garden.

So I decided to share with you some pictures of our garden I took the passed weeks.

We moved in our house 4 years ago (June 2007) and we are very pleased to watch growing all the flowers, plants and trees we planted the passed years.

These plane trees we planted Autumn 2009.

The old garden roses we planted in September last year.

Honorine de Brabant

Ulrich Brunner

Madame Isaac Pereire

Our hydrangeas (planted April 2009)are a bit late this year! I am so looking forward to their flowering!

The young fruit trees and hedges in our backyard are doing well. We planted them Autumn 2009.

 

Apple trees, pear trees, walnut trees,…

 

The lawn.

I so love this wall hydrangea at the façade of our house. (Planted in 2008)

 

Rambler Kir Royal (2008)

And I am so proud of our grape-vine we planted in 2007 at the wall of the orangery! He is doing so well and gives us lots of white grapes!

On both sides of the graveled path : ‘Aspirin’ rose.

‘Aspirin’ rose.

View from the terrace.

I hope you all will enjoy this weekend!

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To decorate with old garden roses

 

I am so proud to show you these pictures of the beautiful roses of our garden. We planted 3 types of old Bourbon roses in September last year and I am so pleased to be able to decorate our home with our own wonderful old garden roses this year!

We planted the Honorine de Brabant, the Madame Isaac Pereire and the Ulrich Brunner roses. They are all blooming at this moment and I will show you pictures of them in our garden later.

I have to thank Trish of Trouvais for her help to choose the right roses! Trish is a connoisseur of old garden roses! She already posted wonderful posts of her garden roses on her blog.

 

This is the Ulrich Brunner Bourbon rose. She is so beautiful and her leaves feel as velvet!

 

Here are our different Bourbon roses in a group. At the background is the Ulrich Brunner, the light colored is the Honorine de Brabant and on the foreground is the Madame Isaac Pereire.

 

The Honorine de Brabant and the Ulrich Brunner on my French commode at the entry hall.

 

The Ulrich Brunner rose on the chimney piece at the orangery.

 

And here some pictures of decorations with roses.

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Walda Pairon

 

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Do you love old garden roses?

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Summer in our garden!

 

Here in Belgium it will be a wonderful long weekend! The weather will be great!!

So I am in the mood for relaxing in our garden !

And…time for a barbecue party!!!

This morning sunshine was early and I couldn’t resist taking some sunny pictures of our garden.

In earlier posts I told you about the landscaping of our garden we started last year and on which we were further working in spring this year.

 

As you can notice we are not finished yet!!!  In the picture above you see the spaces were we have to plant flowers. On the right site I would love to have a lot of old French roses, because roses make me happy! They do! And on the right site, close to the outbuilding I want something else. I am still looking to find the right flowers of plants.

 

We are so happy with the plane-trees we planted last year. Look at them now! They are still very young but won’t they be beautiful within a few years?

Now you can see where we will spend our weekend.

  I asked my friend Trish from TROUVAIS some information about roses because she is a rose lady and she knows a lot about antique French roses. You really should visit her post ANTIQUE FRENCH GARDEN ! Beautiful!

She was so nice mailing me a few of her favorite roses that I posted here beyond.

Thank you so much Trish!

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Trish her favorite is Madame Isaac Pereire, a pink Bourbon rose from the late 19th century. c. 1881

 

Madame Ernest Calvat. c.1888

Or white roses as

Tea Noisette Gloire de Dijon. c.1853

Or

Frau Karl Druschki

So I will think about all these beauties and I will post you later about my choice!

Have a wonderful sunny weekend!

xx

For Lene

 

This post is dedicated to my friend Lene from the blog THE ESSENCE OF THE GOOD LIFE. Lene is recovering from surgery and came home from hospital now since a few days.

Because flowers are always a source of energy to me, I would love to post some images of decorating with flowers especially for Lene!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I hope that these flowers will give you a lot of energy Lene!!

A big hug !

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Greet

Images : my files except otherwise mentionned