all roses in my backgarden

Rosa 'Schneewittchen' aka 'Iceberg'
white, fragrant

Rosa 'Mein München'
yellow with red, fragrant

Rosa 'Nostalgie'
white with red, fragrant

Rosa 'The Prince'
David Austin rose
purple, strong spicy fragrance

Rosa 'Easy Going'
gold, fragrant

Rosa 'Graham Thomas'
David Austin rose
dark yellow, fragrant

Rosa 'Lichtköningin Lucia'
yellow, fragrant

cutting rose, rosered, scentless

miniature rose, red, scentless

Rosa 'Isabel Renaissance'
deep red, fragrant

Rosa 'Westerland'
at first orane, later rose/yellow, fragrant
at this picture the flower just opened

Rosa 'Westerland'

Frank and Ari

Frank and Ari enjoy the nice weather. Frank on the swingcouch, Ari beneath.

If you didn't see Ari at the first picture: he is hiding behind Franks leg.

a lot of colors in the garden

I like this blue-violet Columbine.

Last week we went to the gardencenter, where we bought this small Papaver 'Gartenzwerg'.

Each year the creeping phlox gets larger and has more flowers.

The Welsh poppy pops up everywhere in the garden, I don't mind as I like these flowers.

Another new addition: Japanese maple 'Beni-maiko'.

Wild pansy (Viola tricolor).

I could not resist the Lithodora 'Heavenly Blue' at the gardencenter ;-)

The last days of the tulip 'Groenland'.

Clematis 'The President'

London Pride (Saxifraga x Urbium) with many small flowers.

This year we have a pink New Guinea impatiens.

Bellflower (Campanula portenschlagiana).

White flowers and silver foliage of the Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium tomentosum).

In the frontgarden I planted two mini-roses (Rosa 'Vanilla Kordana').

I planted this Peonie in a container last year.

Chimay and Ari sleeping

last tulips

De last tulips are blooming, this is my favorite tulip 'Groenland'. I planted these last fall at a rather shady spot, so they came up late.

I thought I had lst my Iris Germanica. It was in the garden when we came here, but got lost when we changed the garden. But to my surprise it came up in an other corner of the garden, where was too much shade, so I replaced it to a more sunny spot. This year I was rewarded with many flowers!

Aquilia

Midweek in Sauerland, part 4: Frankenberg

After my walk through Niedersfeld and a good breakfast, we went on our way to Frankenberg. A surprisingly beautiful old town, first we visited the Liebfrauenkirche.

a gorgeous beast cut out of a stone near the entrance

tombstone of Caspar Tholde, 16th century with a pentagram on the top

A lot of the art that once was in this church was destroyed in the Reformation in 1606, but a few sculptures of Tyle von Frankenberg (14th century) were spared. Here pictures of the statues of John the Baptist, an apostle and Christ.

Gethsemane, also by Tyle von Frankenberg

The stained glass was mostly destroyed too, the few remaining windows look pretty.

And there was more: a richly painted ceiling, a very special organ (20th century) and art by Ansgar Nierhoff, sadly I have no pictures of his art.

After all nature of the past days it was good to see some culture ;-)

We walked back to the center of the town to see the town hall. Here a small tower on the back of the town hall, again both roof and wall covered in shingles.

frontside of the townhall with Lady Justice and a clock

We had a cup of coffe at restaurant "Die Sonne Frankenberg" on the townsquare next to the town hall. The employees were baffled by these strange foreigners who kept sitting outside when it started to rain... But we were dry under a parasol.

Frank

After tis little break we drove on to the Edersee

saw a bit of the roof of Schloss Waldeck

Back in Niedersfeld I finally wanted to know what was behind my initials... We had passed here a few times.

Oh, stupid me, I should have known: Ave Maria.

Looking inside is a bit disappointing after all the beauty we saw in the Liebfrauenkirche in Frankenberg!

Last picture of our short vacation, Frank, Chimay and Ari at the Hillestausee, whrer we had again a nice walk.