november garden

 

my garden is a kaleidoscope in slow motion

purple beauties

magnolia sunset

neighbour's garden, Heidelberg

Michael's meadows and a lunch al fresco

Michael Simonsen, of Simonsen Freianlagen, the landscape designer and family friend, has a beautiful garden, that we were very eager to visit. Whenever we asked, "can we come see your garden this weekend?" He said "No no noooo, it needs a little more time to show the whole variety of flowers! Half of them didn't blossom yet!" or "Just a little more patience, I am still waiting for the sunflowers!"

Finally, on a sunny day towards the end of August, we decided "now or never" and called Michael to tell him the day of our visit had come, and that we didn't want to wait for the sunflowers any longer.

The walk through the meadows was delightful; we saw a real-life deer and some of the flowers smelled like honey.

For lunch Michael sent us off to the vegetable patch in the beautiful kitchen garden equipped with a washing basket to pick our ingredients. Warty cucumbers, the most differently shaped and coloured tomatoes and little leafy greens and herbs made a wonderful salad.

straight from the garden to my oven

And yes, there is a difference in taste between homegrown and bought in the shop! This yellow zucchino proved it. In its perfect state of ripeness, with only a few hours between garden and oven,  seasoned with sea salt and olive oil, it made for a simple and most delicious dinner.

The origin of this bright vegetable: Mr Simonsen's amazing showgardens where we spent an afternoon to gather inspiration for our own garden. My next project will probably be a small kitchen garden!

garden games