My latest room in the garden is the Container Kitchen Garden which saw the light of day in 2020 behind the Victorian green house…
The Container Kitchen Garden
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The garden rooms
Today there is no lawn left in the garden. And who really needs grass? I do not; and neither do the insects that benefit from all the flowers in the garden. The subsections here give an impression of how the garden rooms and the greenhouses look.
The Sunken Garden
When we moved here, there was a swimming pool close to the forest. It must have been a nice spot, when the pool was built…
The Outdoor Kitchen
Even though this is not an actual garden room, it is still a room in the garden. The outdoor kitchen lies behind the house…
The Shade Garden
This garden room lies in the upper part of the garden, right next to the forest, where there is quite a lot of shade…
The Woodland Garden
The house was what we fell in love with and then of course it’s location right next to Riis Skov. What I did not know was that I would have every opportunity…
The Flame Border
As has been obvious so far, I use many slightly muted, romantic shades in the garden. And at the beginning of my gardening life…
The greenhouses
Let it be said straight away: I am deeply fascinated by greenhouses. So much so that I have written a couple of books on the subject and made television shows…
The Upper Inner Border
The name for this border is a little colloquial. We call it thus, because it is one of two borders in the centre of the ground surrounded by yew hedges. The border at the opposite end…
The Bottom Inner Border
As already explained the inner borders are thus named – both the upper and the bottom ones – because they are situated in the middle of the ground…
The White Border
In this border there are only – perhaps not surprisingly – white flowers. Moreover, there are different foliage plants, which form a lovely backdrop…
The Yellow Border
In my garden, I do not use warm yellow flowers, but rather quite a few of the cold yellows as well as cream yellow and moonlight yellow…
The Romantic Garden
Many people dream about a romantic garden, and it is safe to call this garden room romantic. It is centered around a round mirror basin – 300 cm in diameter…
The Border by the Road
This border is at the bottom of the garden towards the road, which means that it is visible to passers-by who are able to follow what happens throughout…
The Border in Front of the House
When I started the garden more or less twenty years ago, I began in front of the house…
The Avenue
When we came here, there was just a row of Japanese cherry trees separating the avenue from the garden. I was in two minds about whether or not we should cut down the cherry trees or leave them be…