Completely happy Monday GPODers!
To this point this season we’ve been handled to some pretty images of spring vegetation from throughout the US. Early spring blooms from Carla in Pennsylvania, Daniel’s flowering bushes in Northern California, Lori’s colourful scenes within the San Diego space, and recent spring coloration from Beth in North Carolina. We’re sticking with the theme of recent and colourful spring flowers in the present day, however we get to see it with a European twist. Yana Schneider in Langen, Germany (situated in jap Germany, outdoors the town of Frankfurt) has shared her spring backyard with us, specializing in the clusters and lots more and plenty of tiny blue flowers that fill her borders within the early season.
My identify is Yana Schneider and I’m a passion gardener from Ukraine, dwelling in Langen, Hessen, Germany.
Three years in the past my husband and I purchased this property with a backyard which consisted to 99% of garden. One 12 months later, after a very popular summer season season and numerous solar burned garden, we determined to create flower beds for pollinators utilizing sheet mulching approach and add some shrubs and bushes—f.e. juneberry (Amelanchier lamarckii, Zone 4–8), Japanese maples, roses, birches, and many others.—for peak and shade.
I like self seeding flowers, so I purchased some packages of forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica, Zone 4–8) seeds, sprinkled them round and two years later the flower beds are bursting with these pretty tiny blue flowers.
Hope you benefit from the photos and video of my spring blue paradise.
With love from Germany,Yana Schneider
Even on a misty, foggy morning the tiny blue blooms of forget-me-nots completely glow. Past simply being a reasonably flower, this short-lived perennial or biennial has an extended historical past in Germany that dates again to the Center Ages. You could have heard the outdated legend a few German knight being swept away by a river and tossing these flowers to his girl shouting, “neglect me not!” However, in fact, there may be extra fiction to that story than reality. It’s extra probably their blue coloration, which was related to constancy within the Center Ages, that finally contributed to the flower’s identify and that means. Learn this quick however enlightening article from The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork to be taught in regards to the historical past of forget-me-nots: When This You See, Bear in mind Me.
A visiting ladybug, one other thrilling signal of the beginning of the season, sits on a leaf above a sea of spectacular blue blooms. Like in some areas of the US, forget-me-nots can simply over seed in temperate elements of Europe, and retaining the plant in examine is essential to maintain it from spreading uncontrolled. (In some sates this plant is taken into account invasive, so you should definitely examine your native extension providers or invasive.org earlier than sowing any of your personal seeds)
Yana appears to haven’t any points retaining it contained, and I really love that the flowers are sprinkled all through the backyard in numerous densities. Some areas are enormous plenty, whereas different are extra sporadic clumps that add little sparkles of blue amongst the foliage of different vegetation but to bloom.
A busy bee has a wealth of blooms to select from. What a feast for busy pollinators in the beginning of the season.
A wider view of the backyard, with some evergreens and flowering woodies becoming a member of the forget-me-nots of their springtime present. Once more, we see the attractive approach Yana has unfold these tiny blue blooms all through her backyard.
Just a little backyard helper will get to benefit from the blue blooms whereas onerous at work doing spring chores!
Lastly, Yana additionally included a video of her spring backyard! What a deal with to see the area from so many alternative angles and views.
Thanks a lot for sharing you attractive spring backyard with us, Yana! Because the season continues on and different blooms emerge, I can’t think about ever forgetting about these stunning blue scenes 😉
And please, hold the spring backyard images coming! I might like to see what spring 2025 is wanting like in additional states, areas, or much more international locations. Comply with the instructions beneath to submit images through e-mail, or ship me a DM on Instagram: @agirlherdogandtheroad.
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