Good Evening

I realise I should have introduced myself like this yesterday when I registered - so I do apologise to everyone.
I live in a small village in Germany, but am originally from Scotland. I simply adore Alexander McCall Smith´s books - especially the Scotland Street series - check them out if you have never read them - and the short stories Irregular Portuguese Verbs - then my name shall be revealed!
Back to gardening - I have a large mature garden which we inherited on buying this house 7 years ago - it´s supposed to be designed to be easy care - ahem! My main aim is to increase the colour in the garden as there is a lot of evergreen plants and shrubs and to maximise the use of perennials. I love hostas and hibiscus bushes of which I have two - one pink and one white which are just on the verge of blooming.
I am the gardener and my husband does the "heavy" work! Our wire haired fox terrier just observes...
Looking forward to being on the forum
Von Igelfeld

 

hi Von welcome to gc have fun

 

Thanks high kype - I´ve never been on a forum before so I shall probably make some clangers!

 

Good evening and welcome to the site.:gnthb:

 

Thank you too daitheplant - perhaps a hear a bit of welshness there? We used to live near Chepstow in S. Wales before we moved to Germany. A lot of black spot on the roses!

 

Welcome Von to GC. Enjoy your stay.
robert

 

Hiya, welcome toGC

 

Thank you too both capney and lollipop for making me feel welcome on GC!
Goodnight
Von Igelfeld

 

Hi welcome to GC :wlcm: - I share your ground elder problems, along with mares tail - all these things come to try us!

 

Good late morning to all welcoming me to GC -
feel better already Clematis about my ground elder and yes, I have mare´s tail too stubbornly growing through ground cotoneaster...an annual rip out (done last week) sort of curtails it for the season, then it starts all over again! Ho hum...:o

 

I've beem missing for a while on this forum so a belated Hello & welcome form me too.