Kempten - Der Kreisbote documents how the diversity garden is created.
In part 12, Karin Wurth reports how the group plants spring bloomers and perennials.
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Planting “bulbs and perennial plants”, the plan for the last three big Saturdays in October sounded so harmless.
I was there (once)!
First task: dig in a few spring flowers on the flowering hill, which was already planted with perennials last Saturday.
Felix, our gardener kapo, happily announced that he had 400 bulbs, less than 100 per nose.
Quite a demanding challenge, not to get in the way of the others on the right and left, not only digging onions into the loose earth at the bottom of the path, but also diagonally on the slope, further up, and not in neat rows, but irregularly, which is surprisingly more difficult is.
And please do not dig up any of the recently planted perennials (to put a strange flower bulb in the cozy perennial bed like a cuckoo).
Each his own technique
Two examples of outstanding techniques next to me while I continue to dig stubbornly in concrete-hard earth with the small planting shovel: On the left, men reaching for a spade (sounds like a movie), on the right, father and son with the brilliant and efficient children's shovel throwing technique to undermine boring planting arrangements.
In the afternoon the newly built dry stone wall was on top.
Felix painted a few bushes to plant on the raised bed.
I got in touch immediately, manageable job for two, we'll have that soon.
The faster we worked, the faster the hill filled with more perennials waiting for us.
The first slight attempts at fraud by me (three thyme plants that would certainly be happier in a planting hole and would not have to grow together and lignify for years) were unfortunately seen and immediately stopped.
In conflict
As is usually the case, when patience and care are actually required, I have a conflict of goals between puppy-like gardening enthusiasm ("Felix, give me work! I want to do it!") And the natural attempt not to ruffle yourself too much ("What do you mean by that "I should dig deeper holes for the perennials? Which perennials do you mean by that? Also the shallow roots? ALL?")
I often heard sentences from a good-humored Felix: “Exactly where I put it” and “The planting hole must be deep enough, that's not enough”.
After 300 shrubs everything was good and the raised bed looked great.
Until Felix took several larger paper carrier bags with hundreds of flower bulbs out of the car: “Please dig in the spring blooms as well!” Fortunately, all the teams that were previously on the site helped out, and I was able to slow down a little ...
Action on Saturday
On Saturday, October 30th, the last gardening day takes place to plant bulbs and perennials.
This time on the wet meadow.
Come in abundance!
Anyone who should see a busy, if somewhat sloppy, amateur gardener who furtively looks around to see if someone notices how she (rarely) puts three bulbs or onions into a planting hole from time to time, that would be me.
If you, dear readers, come to Hortus Natura in spring with your dog, on foot or while cycling and every now and then discover artistically valuable arrangements of spring flowers in elegant small groups of three - that was me, that was on purpose and I got work Saved and free time: For more Bircher muesli, more vegan meat fritters and more warm snails.
Thanks to the beer table organized by Martin with real buffet flair.
A Hortus Natura gardening day means being tired, full, satisfied, the conversations with the planting team in the ear and again learned a lot from Felix and the fellow gardeners.
It has to be like that.
Karin Wurth