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DOLLHOUSE miniatures 1:12
JEWELRY: Silver and gemstones Swarovski pendants
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My
name is Emmy van Roest Borger, I live
in Brunssum, in the south eastern part of the Netherlands near the German and Belgium border.
Zone
7 to 8,
in the winter about –7º Celsius and in the summer about 23º Celsius, it could
be a bit warmer or colder.
My
garden is not very big, about 14 metre wide and 25 metre long, south-west with a
lot of sun (if it shines).
In the
back of my garden I have a (too) little greenhouse where I grow the most of my
plants and give some tender plants shelter for the winter with a small heater to get 5º
Celsius, for
the most plants I have is OK.
My garden is a collection of many plants which I either buy at our local nursery's and plant markets or grow from seeds that I exchange from all over the world via the internet or buy. At this moment I have about 1600 species of plants in my garden and I hope to get more.
I try to grow mostly unusual plants in my garden,
but what is unusual?
The
garden is organised untidy, if I forget my garden tools it looks like it belongs
there. That can be practical. It is not a garden to sit in and enjoy (it is
although
possible!!), there is always something to look at, a wonderful flower or weed I
forgot to pull out. The best time to enjoy my garden is on a warm summer-evening
with a glass of wine. In our country we don’t have many warm
summer-evenings. But I enjoy my garden anyway!! In the front garden (20 square metre) I try to make an alpine garden with some gravel and rocks, the small plants looks very nice.
At: SOWINGTIPS I have some tips from my own experience, if you have a way that works fine for you, keep it that way, but maybe I have some new tips you can use. At: LINKS I have some useful and nice links I found at the internet and get from other gardenfriends.
If you want to take look at my other hobbies (in Dutch) just click: POPPENHUIS / dollhouse This is my hobby in miniature 1:12 I build in an antique cabinet a dollhouse, a lot of the minatures I made myself.
Zilver & Zo / jewellery And other hobby is jewellery making of silver and gems. Silversmithing as also a pasion. I sell the jewels I make to compensate all of my hobbys,
e-mail: emmys@xs4all.nl Update on 30-05-11.
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