HI, I´m a balcony-gardener, far away in Germany,...

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and I found Your webside while searching information on “Dianthus amurensis”, which I sawed recently.
My “garden” is tiny, about 1.50 × 1.80 meters, half of it in the shadow of the roof, in an old house´s 4th. floor and 5 minutes from the heart of the city. Now, this garden is containing nearly 70 – 8o different plants in most shallow pots! They stay outside in winter. Most of them are saxifraga´s, sedum´s and dianthus´s, and other stonegarden-plants. By growing in pots it is easy to divide them into those, who love lime and others loving sour earth. Most of the pots I can make myself by pottery, so I have irregular forms, not being conspiceous.
Between all those little ones, I love white Lilies, mixed with big pinks.
I try to imitate little biotops; the next one: To do a new pottery about 43 × 34 cm, standing half in shadow, to join all my plants from the wood which grow on lime: Anemone sylvatica, Anemone nemorosa, Allium ursinum, Galium odoratum, Cynanchum vincetoxicum (I took seeds from the wood, they seem to come…), and Viola odorata. All of them sprouting.
Right now, after a pretty cold german winter, the Pulsatilla vernalis in white, comes out, and beside it, a little Adonis vernalis, to whom I look forward with great joy. The lillies show their first points.

I often regret not to live in England – mild & fair – because of it´s Gardens and it´s lovely landscapes. And other beauties. Nelke.Photos later.

• 5 Apr, 2009
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