[http://www.lmsoft.com/] The garden is created in 1995-1996 and is close to 1 acre big. It is located in the east of The Netherlands. After we had a design made by a horticulturist who also delivered the plants, shrubs and trees and putted them on the right spot, we started. The garden house and the swimming pool where also put together by ourselves with some help from a view friends. When I look back, the whole is a lot of work and not just the design. Especially the first couple of years it is tricky to keep the weeds out because everything is still so small that you can hardly tell the difference. Now through the years it is more a question of regularly maintenance, but it's hard to do so all by yourself without the obligation to work every single day in your garden. So I have a little help there from an experienced gardener. From origin the garden was mainly a meadow which asks maintenance too despite the fact of the presence of a horse and sheep which of course you will have to look after too so then I went for the garden. Besides I'm still “enjoying” the fact that it once was a meadow because I didn't use an efficacious herbicide but only had it ploughed. Too bad, because on lots of different spots this very long grass keeps coming back despite weeding. What I almost had forgotten in the beginning was to put a sprinkler system. You can't schlep around buckets of water or drag around a mile of garden hose through the garden can you? This is now an underground pump with sprinkler nozzles, just underneath the surface level, all over the place divided in three sections. With these three handles, which are inside the house, I can now sprinkle the whole garden. Of course these were extra costs, but just the case with rebuilding your house, one thing you want to and the other thing you have to. One way or the other it is essential to a garden this big. There is also garden lightning everywhere, which is part of the normal lightning system over here that is 220 V. With many thanks to my father in-law John, who is very handy in all kinds of things and offers help wherever he can and hurray he is retired. Now all I have to do is to teach him a little gardening ..... In a suited corner we made a spot for all the garbage and grass that comes out of the garden. We put some azobe (tropical wood with a highly durableness) poles in the ground and put small meshed strips against it and we planted some english ivy to grow against it so when we sit or walk somewhere in the garden we never have to watch this mountain of garbage but a nice green wall.
Some pictures may be a little dated, but gardens keep changing as you all know. Both text and pictures on the different pages will be renewed or changed regularly, pages added etc. It will take a while to make some relevant pictures. Just like the page of the fauna and the birds in particular will last a while before it is a little complete and because I want to have it observed myself, which is pretty difficult by the way, and especially during the summertime when you hardly can't see them. The pictures and sound recordings unfortunately are not from my own hand, unfortunately because photography is a hobby of mine but I don't (yet) have the digital equipment like I used to have in analog. Therefore you will miss some detail in some pictures. I adjust all pictures before I put them on the server with Paint Shop Pro. This website is made by myself as you noticed. I'm not a crack in building websites. Shall we say everyone has his own profession, after all it's all about the garden. Personal I like a (garden) site when I can watch a lot of nice shots and don't have to wait long and possibly can find some useful information. Hopefully you like the site and the garden. I did, and will do, my best.

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