The Dutch Delta Gardener: strictly non-AI writer/creative

 Blue Monday 2023: 'Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have' zingt Lana del Rey en daar sluit ik me volledig bij aan. ...

 Well, it is official. From now on I can proudly call myself a proper gardener again. My balcony garden remains, but the fact that I have a ...

 Of course I know cottage is not a verb, but sitting here in the gloom looking out on my balcony garden, to me it is. I have great news! You...

This blog started out in English, to correspond with my Instagram account where I have mostly international contacts. But to my amazement I ...

 Grow your vegetables! We are urged to eat less meat and sugar, and more veggies. The shadiest corner at 21:30 As a gardener, obviously I co...

 "What is depression like? It's like drowning, except you can see everyone around you breathing." (HealthyPlace.com) In spring...

 Some years ago now, I gave up on hostas. But life changes, in this case for the best. My happy hosta Hostas project that lush jungle like v...

 Shakespeare used a rose to explain something: 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.....

 "Eden: the beautiful garden where Adam and Eve, the first human beings, lived before they did something God had told them not to and w...

 Smug in the face of climate change in my delta, I had my sunshade right, bring it on, in Spring 2019 I filled my garden with plants that sh...