himmelskratzer

himmelskratzer

Member since: May 08 | Years gardening: 8 Organic gardener Folia Supporter

I grew up in a gardening-loving family. My grandmothers both had huge gardens, one (as far as I can remember) decorative, the other more of a fruit and vegetable garden, but with some nice flowers too. My parents started their own attempts in gardening when we moved in our first home with a garden. I was around 3 years old, then. So all my thinking life I was surrounded with gardens, and gardening, and books about plants and gardening. My friends say that I have green fingers, but I guess I just was lucky enough to have a good pair of teachers.

I don’t have a garden of my own in forms of a green patch somewhere on the ground. But I have my little balcony, and I am determined to get it as green as possible during the summer.

Gardens

  • himmelskratzer's Balcony Cottage garden

    Balcony Cottage garden

    Zone 7 I don't have a "real" garden, only a balcony. Unfortunately it is facing north/north-east, so light is a very precious thing to me and my plants. :...

    • 31 plants
    • 50 journals
    • 3 faves
    • 0 comments
  • himmelskratzer's Glass garden

    Glass garden

    Zone 7 I love the idea of bottle gardens and started a collection of several glass containers with plants inside. The star is the huge vase I found at the...

    • 5 plants
    • 2 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
  • himmelskratzer's Indoor Jungle garden

    Indoor Jungle garden

    Zone 7 The plants in my appartment.

    • 10 plants
    • 4 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
  • himmelskratzer's Propagation garden

    Propagation garden

    Zone 7 Where I keep my propagations.

    • 8 plants
    • 2 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
  • himmelskratzer's Succulent garden

    Succulent garden

    Zone 7 I love hardy succulents and have now a very small collection of sempervivum, orostachys spinosa and sedum.

    • 4 plants
    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
  • himmelskratzer's Container Herb garden

    [Archived] Container Herb garden

    After my Turkish Poppy decided to rather die instead of living together with the lavender, I transplanted my lemon balm, the sage and the tarragon ...

    • 0 plants
    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
  • himmelskratzer's Mini Moss garden

    [Archived] Mini Moss garden

    Zone 7 Moss Growing Experiments.

    • 1 plants
    • 0 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

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I love to grow

herbs, lavender, strange plants I rescue from the supermarket


Hobbies

photography, knitting, cooking


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