Dylan 2004 - 2018

On the 18th. December we said goodbye to our dear old dog Dylan. He was 14 years and 10 months old. He survived his brother Thomas by 10 months and 6 days. We will miss him dearly.
He is buried beside his brother in  our garden.

                                                           Photograph © Hans van den Bos 

Birds in Hortus Godotii -I-

Cyanistes caeruleus [Blue tit]

Parus major [Great tit]

Periparus ater [Coal tit]

Sturnus vulgarus [Starling]

Passer domesticus [House sparrow]

Kirengeshoma palmatum with its beautiful flowers

Family: Hydrangeaceae.

The genus name is Japanese, ki-rengeshōma (黄蓮華升麻); ki means ‘yellow’ and rengeshōma is a somewhat similar plant, the false anemone (Anemonopsis). 

A herbaceous perennial forming a clump to 1.2m, with palmately lobed leaves and dark maroon stems and nodding, fleshy, narrowly bell-shaped creamy-yellow flowers to 3.5cm in length in open panicles. Flowers from late summer to mid-autumn. Height 120 cm. Likes a sheltered site with acid, moist but well-drained soil in full - to partial shade.

October 2018

September 2018

July 2018

May 2018

                                                               Photographs © Hans van den Bos 

Six new clematis will climb coming spring in Godot's Garden

End of August we received four and yesterday two of the plants we had ordered by Thorncroft Clematis in Norfolk, U.K.. Here below you see the photos, which we took from the website of the grower.
For a free download version of the Thorncroft Care Guide click here: https://www.thorncroftclematis.co.uk/media/wysiwyg/PDFs/Thorncroft-CareGuide-2017-02-A5-web01.pdf

Clematis 'Edith'

Clematis 'Fair Rosamund'

Clematis 'Fuji Musume'

Clematis 'Gojō-gawa'

Clematis 'Haku Ookan'

Clematis 'Mercury'