Georgs garden...

[georg ruf jr.]

As promised Diana, I'm posting some pics of our garden. You remember? One of the reasons why I've been busy ocasuanaly.

These pics were all taken about a week ago. Almost everything seems so dead. Some leaves can already be seen.
The contrast between sommer and winter is a lot bigger than in SA. So spring is a very rewarding time after a cold and gray winter.
Here we go.

[georg ruf jr.]

1. Btommbeer. A fruit simular to Mallberrys (this ground we are renting)
2. Apple plum cherry. (this ground we are renting)
3. Wild japenies cherries along the road.
4. "Buchenhecke" What's that in English? (border of our own ground)

[georg ruf jr.]

1. One of our own cherry trees. Very big and juicy kind.
2. Plum, prune, apple, pear
3. This is where my wife has her veg and salad in summer. Looks more like a desert now... hihi
4. Veg garden, green house, "log cabin. That's our garden.

[georg ruf jr.]

1, We like sitting here in summer... Wine, braai... That's our kitchen windows und our bedroom on top.
2. That dry bush is "Flieder". Wish you could smell it when the blossoms open.
3. Our garden taken from the terrase
4. The rented garden in the backround seen from our terrase

[georg ruf jr.]

Kids are the same allover the world.
Lucie (5) practicing for school next year in summer

[georg ruf jr.]

The next round will be the real spring pics with more green.
Please enjoy and feel free to comment.

[SandyB]

Quite the farmer you  are .. I noticed in my travels in Germany that some city families have  plots on the outskirts where they have gardens , spending  weekends there tending  their gardens , I have  forgotten   what  they  were  called .. help //

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Nice Boy Georg,no wander you've been busy will be nice to see the changes in the next photo's. Yes Sandy my dads family had those funny gardens you'd go to over the weekend,with gardening shed and all.

[barb (Fry)]

IN the UK they are called allotments, they are what fed the country during the war and law states that everyone has a right to one.

Keeping the developers off is a growing problem, now a days though, it seems the councils are often swayed by the price paid.

[georg ruf jr.]

Thanks guys.
The gardens Sandy means are called "Schrebergarten" spocken shrebergarten. My parents in law have one and are very proud of it. It's not my kind of thing. They're all in a "collony" with strict rules. What you may plant, how much of your garden should be used for veg... ect. "Typical" German... 
Our garden is neat in a way. I'm not the farmer type. It's my wife who enjoys the veg ect. I take care of the lawn and hedges. That's enough for me. A garden has to be a wee bit wild.
Best of all... A lot of our fruit is made into Schnaps with 45% alcehol. 

[SandyB]

A wee bit  wild .. you been  drinking  Whiskey  and  getting  some scots  influence ?/

[Susan Kintscher (Lineker)]

"Buchenhecke" is called hedge in English.  Nice pixs, see on Deukom (German Satellite) that you guys are freezing.......

[georg ruf jr.]

Thanks Susan for helping. "Hecke" means hedge. I don't know what "Buche" is in English. It's actualy a tree which is used in hedges. I know they're used in British parks too. As far as I know, gardners would bend them to make sure they can put the top of the tree in the ground. That way the tree grows roots and stays in this position forming something like an n. at the highest point they would chop a slit into, but I don't know the purpose.
Mayxbe this'll help you to know what "Buche" is. I have a dictionary at home. If I remember....

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Buche : = Beech, beechnut

Buch Hecke grove

Find no direct translation for Buchhecke

[georg ruf jr.]

Thanks oldman.