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Development of "The Plains of Wilgenhof" - started in 2003
This area is being readied for future planting of many trees and shrubs.
June- area ready for buckwheat cover , July- buckwheat at maturity, August- ready for next buckwheat 



2004 Progress
'The Octoberfest' planted with a selection of bulbs, daylilies, poppies and other perennials- fall 2003
First Blooms- spring 2004

Octoberfest Bed 2004

Hollyhock, Daylily 'Can. Border Patrol', Lily'Barbaresco'
Samples of Summer Bloom

'Claymore ' Bed  2004
Planted with shrubs- June 2004. It includes a selection of plants with purple foliage.
Spring flowering bulbs were added Oct/04
Claymore Bed 2004

Spring 2005
spring 2005
Next stage is a bed called the 'Holland' bed; ready to plant in the spring of 2005

'Holland' bed

We think this should be called "the recovery" bed since quite a number of plants needing some recovery were planted here. An Oak tree was planted, as was a nice flowering crab . Several Rhododendrons that needed to be re-situated were planted in late summer 2005.
A variety of bulbs and a few lilies also made their appearance. Spring 2006 was showing some colour, and by late summer a few of the "recovery" rhododendrons were looking better.
Holland bed '05-'06

Spring, 2005 saw the development of a planting area we call the 'Beech' bed.
Below are the stages of preparation from late April-June, 2005.

early stages spring, 2005

The bed had settled in quite nicely by late summer, 2005.
summer 2005

Spring, 2006 saw quite a nice burst of colour.
spring'06

Check out the photo album called 'BEECH BED GLIMPSES'

beech bedSsept, 2006
In the few years since the "Beech Bed" development, more work has gone on on the hillside beyond the Rhododendron Nursery Beds for 2002-2203. Potatoes and buckwheat have been used to get the soil into "cultivation mode".
hillside in Sept'06


Here is a pictorial of a Buckwheat Harvest in 2007



updated: July24, 2007