Artists Garden

Artist's private #garden inspired by the wabi sabi principles of embracing the natural, the imperfect and the impermanent.
Exile-dwelling #European. #Photography #artist and #gardener.

Website: https://wolfkettler.com
Prints of my work: https://www.saatchiart.com/wolfkettler

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2026-06-25 07:36:37 UTC

The blue flowering Salvia nemorosa 'Ostfriesland' are doing particularly well this year, their flowers have already lasted a long time. I love the combination of the Salvia with the fluffy Stipa tenuissima ‘Ponytail'.
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2026-06-15 09:38:51 UTC

I love the garden at any time of the day. Without a doubt, though, the light is best early mornings and, as in this photograph, late afternoons.
As everywhere in the garden, the borders contain deliberately placed plants but welcome with open arms the many self-sown wildflowers.
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2026-06-11 09:45:10 UTC

I have been busy in the garden and I have revamped my website. Also decided that I would *try* to keep the ‘journal’, a.k.a. blog, a little more up-to-date.
Since I am clearly utterly incapable of sustaining a regular presence on social media, I would like to share the first new blog post with you: www.wolfkettler.com/blog/wild-unruly-and-beautiful
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2026-02-23 13:52:26 UTC

Baked λαγάνα - Lagana, a Greek flatbread traditionally baked just once a year on this day, Clean Monday (καθαρí Δευτέρα, katharí deftéra), the first day of Greek orthodox lent.
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2026-02-11 10:57:22 UTC

Started my sowing at the weekend. It's odd. Every year I am determined not to grow anything other than the essentials - vegetables and a few annuals. And every year I end up with a planting list as long as my arm. Does this sound familiar???
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2026-01-05 12:45:17 UTC

We had a light snowfall during the night. She snow falls on already frozen ground, hence stays for a while. There is not a lot of snow but it is pretty and very seasonal.
Btw, I am usually from around 19 December to 6 January in hibernation … :)
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2025-12-13 14:36:19 UTC

Garlic planting day - all own seed - in a well mulched no-dig bed.
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2025-07-21 09:51:42 UTC

The bottom of the garden. Confusingly, the garden slopes *up* towards the bottom.
Bottom left the pond. The brick construction on the right is what we call the folly. Bees, other insects, birds and pond dwelling individuals love it. So do I.
Planted to feel and look natural, wild, full and overflowing. Weeds a.k.a. wildflowers are welcome.
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2025-07-09 08:23:49 UTC

A sunny day's light fades in the garden as the evening draws in.
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2025-07-06 09:57:05 UTC

Colourburst on a grey, drizzly day in this corner of a border:
Blue flowering lavender and the last blue delphiniums, golden grasses, white Cenolophium denudatum, red and yellow Gaillardia aristata, yellow Rudbeckia hirta, yellow self sown evening primrose, purple seedheads on a self sown Lunaria annua (honesty), purple stems on the Selinum wallichianum, a few of the last Marguerites, green foliage.
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2025-07-03 09:27:47 UTC

I love Hollyhocks! They are beautiful, tall, robust, unruly, bawdy and keep going all summer. Bees and other insects love them and behave as if they were shopping for recreational drugs.
This plant lives in an area in the garden called the Garden of Delights.
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2025-07-02 15:02:43 UTC

This border is what I see when I look out of the living room patio doors.
Essentially, this is a grasses border interplanted with perennials - plus self sown annuals and biennials.
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2025-07-01 09:17:58 UTC

A Phlomis in a border in the garden. Most likely a Phlomis russeliana or Turkish sage.
The many seedheads are from just one plant. Widespread now but native to the area that is now Turkey and Northern Greece. Bees and other insects love it.
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2025-06-30 10:06:23 UTC

First potato harvest of the year. I only lift what I need, the rest is best 'stored' in the ground.
As in previous years I have grown Kestrel, a second earlies variety. My vegetable garden is no dig.
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2025-06-26 07:54:33 UTC

I am a man, I am of a mature age and this is the first time in my life that I painted my toenails.
I am a lot more part of the garden now, colour-wise, don’t you think?
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2025-06-22 13:18:05 UTC

Harvested garlic today. Almost all bulbs a really good size, better than in previous years.
90 bulbs in total, which will see us through to the next harvest and provide seed bulbs for planting in December.
I started growing garlic several years ago. It makes me happy to realise that this is my 8th harvest!
I have a garlic growing guide on my website: https://www.wolfkettler.com/blog/grow-your-own-garlic
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2025-06-13 12:21:30 UTC

Miles Davis or George Gershwin?
Oh, I do hope somebody gets this! Let me know if you do.
A clue is in the alt text.
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2025-05-05 09:15:10 UTC

More garden wildlife: A female duck in one of the two sunken water features on the patio. I supplied breakfast, she went to the pond for a swim afterwards.
Water must be the single most important thing to attract wildlife to a garden.
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2025-04-17 10:53:00 UTC

Bluebells and dandelions in the grass meadow under an ornamental cherry tree.
The perceived weeds, self-sown dandelions and daisies, are loved by the #insects and an important part of my understanding of gardening, which is to invite #nature into the #garden.
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2025-04-07 12:29:33 UTC

I love this entirely wild patch at the front of the garden. Everything, apart from the shrubs, is self-sown (or was already here when we bought the house). I do not do anything apart from cutting it down once a year in late autumn. At the moment, the #bluebells are flowering.
Unlike the rest of the garden it is visible from the road. I am certain that some uninspired people think it is an uncared-for weed patch.
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2025-03-18 15:56:19 UTC

Seed trays on the living room floor - this is only part of it.
Sowed annuals, biennials and perennials today. 320 seed tray cells in all. Seems a bit over the top as I only wanted to plug a few gaps in borders. Don't know how it happened.
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2025-03-17 12:40:06 UTC

Been busy all last week cutting down the borders. With the temperatures on the up, I reckoned that everybody is out now of their winter quarters in stems and seedheads.
The photograph is of the middle third of the #garden, viewed across. Behind the camera is the greenhouse, a little more space and a tall hedge.
Later in the year, this area is filled with tall, flowering #perennials, ornamental #grasses and #wildflowers - you cannot see from one side to the other. It is beautiful, undisciplined and overflowing with nature.
At this time of the year it is just flat. I am anxiously waiting to see what will come back.
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2025-03-06 13:47:45 UTC

I love wildflowers! Just started to flower, this Lucile's glory-of-the-snow, #Scilla luciliae. Also known as #lawnstars. They arrived a few years ago on the wind and decided to stay.
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2025-03-05 12:57:06 UTC

Let's do something kind and amazing and help this lady, [@nekoow_](https://mstdn.social/@nekoow_ ) . She is desperate and looking after cats.
I think it's all genuine and I just sent a little. Would you, too, consider making a small donation?
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2025-03-05 09:24:49 UTC

The Hellebores in the stumpery have been flowering for a few days. They are an important early flowering plant for (equally early) #insects.
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2025-03-03 07:47:22 UTC

The dwarf #daffodils are flowering, as usual a week or two ahead of the bigger ones.
They were earlier last year. This year, March. Perfect - in German speaking countries, #Austria, Germany, Switzerland, they are called #Märzenbecher, a reference to the month, in which they flower (März - March) and the shape of the flower (Becher = beaker).
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2025-02-23 11:41:56 UTC

#Pulmonaria or #Lungwort, flowering in the last days of #winter. This plant came originally from my parents’ garden in #Austria more than 25 years ago.
When I was out gardening yesterday, I noticed the first bumblebee. Shows how important early flowering #plants are.
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2025-02-21 10:19:54 UTC

This morning, first sighting of a pair of #ducks this year. They were familiar with the layout of the #garden and knew the facilities, #pond and birdfood, etc. I have no doubt that they have been here in previous years. They were a little wary of me still. They are perfectly wild and not used to humans. Will need time to get re-acquainted with me but it won't take them long. Eventually, they will let me get close and may come up to me.
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2025-02-20 08:40:47 UTC

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This is what mine is

2025-02-20 08:39:10 UTC

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Oh, there is another use then :)

2025-02-19 14:34:12 UTC

Planted extra #snowdrop bulbs in the green at the weekend. Did not take long at all—just as well, there was an icy wind, which made being outside unpleasant—and gave me a chance to use my new #Hori Hori knife for the first time.
Despite its name, it is not a knife but a #Japanese #trowel. Manufacturer suggests to use it as an all-round weeder, bulb-planter and general subterranean rummager.
They also call the Hori Hori a weed digging, plant dividing, seed drilling, bulb planting, pot scraping, stone prising, ivy removing, subterranean rummaging, life saving, rooting tooting all round game-changer.
Hm … After using it once I think that they may have a point.
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2025-02-15 12:56:29 UTC

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Thank you. Lovely to get confirmation from someone, who knows more about bees than I do.

2025-02-15 11:23:29 UTC

I know I have posted about #snowdrops, #Galanthus, before. I am so pleased with them. They keep increasing - through the season and year on year.
This group at the entrance to the #stumpery. I also have them in other borders and the #GrassMeadow.
As they flower so early, snowdrops do not rely on #pollinators but spread by bulb division. They are still visited by bees and other early insects on a warm day.
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2025-02-12 12:55:46 UTC

My Austrian country bread, österreichisches Landbrot. A variation on how I normally make it.. It is a rye and wheat sourdough bread.
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2025-02-08 11:31:36 UTC

Following on from my previous post, just to prove that it’s not all frighteningly formal and tidy. The previous year’s growth is still standing but I will be starting to cut it down in a couple of weeks or so.
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2025-02-05 10:56:10 UTC

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And it is particularly frightening because ten years is not such a long time.

2025-01-28 09:31:28 UTC

#Parsley and #rosemary. Own, freshly harvested #herbs - in January!
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2025-01-15 15:34:12 UTC

After much indecision I finally bought a #WeatherStation and installed it today.
I decided on something at the cheaper end, just around £130 including the mounting pole, which was extra. I suspect they are all pretty much the same unless I had wanted to spend a lot more money.
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2025-01-13 09:25:36 UTC

Moles are exceptionally active this year. The whole #garden is dug up. Just as well I am not lawn proud! Nuisance but I cannot persecute the #moles for doing #mole things. Don’t know, where this leaves #NoDig.
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2025-01-07 12:49:27 UTC

A few flakes of #snow this morning. Lovely! We usually miss out on #winter.
#Gardening has not featured much yet this year.
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2024-12-18 11:48:49 UTC

I still want to get some #gardening in before Christmas but I have acquired one of my wife’s hand-me-down viruses. I wish she weren’t so generous.
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2024-12-17 16:04:58 UTC

A while ago I promised to do a writeup about #garlic growing. Here it is:
https://www.wolfkettler.com/blog/grow-your-own-garlic
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2024-11-07 13:07:12 UTC

A late #courgette harvest. They may be small but they are beautiful, #homegrown and harvested in #November.
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2024-11-05 12:43:58 UTC

This year I did a very late sowing of #tomatoes to stay in the unheated #greenhouse. Just out of curiosity. They are #flowering now. We’ll see what happens next …
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2024-10-22 11:03:38 UTC

The #Euonymus alatus looks fantastic in its #autumn coat.
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2024-10-21 14:02:27 UTC

Runner #beans took a long time this year to get going. I am only now beginning (!) to #harvest. Most are still on the vine drying.
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2024-10-15 08:07:47 UTC

I harvested our #pumpkins a few days ago. Grown from #seed, they are #UchikiKuri.
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2024-10-13 15:17:18 UTC

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Already again? Happy birthday! 💖

2024-09-26 12:07:25 UTC

My book, An Imperfect Garden, is 15% off at Blurb‌ from September 27 to October 3.
Use the code READER15 at checkout.
https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/11799146-an-imperfect-garden
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2024-09-24 07:46:11 UTC

Grey and dark but at least it’s not #raining. Yesterday we had more #rainfall in a day than in an entire average month of #September.
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2024-09-23 11:10:56 UTC

Don’t cut down the #seedheads in the #autumn. Leave them well into spring.
Seeds are food for #birds and small mammals. Hollow stems and crevices between stem and leaf are shelter for #insects.
More attractive, too.
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2024-09-22 09:23:21 UTC

Leave the fallen #leaves, where they belong: On the ground.
They are essential for #nature. Insects, invertebrates and small mammals rely on them for shelter and overwintering. As the leaves decompose, they feed the ground.
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2024-09-21 09:58:31 UTC

#Autumn #equinox. A brief moment of equilibrium before the days wane and the nights assume their regency.
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2024-09-20 10:04:00 UTC

Dark grey, windy, mild morning in the #garden
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2024-09-18 14:13:37 UTC

Worked in the #stumpery, mainly to allow a little more light in. #Buddha says that he is happy - good enough for me.
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2024-09-11 15:39:45 UTC

Very #autumnal already but the #courgette plants are still producing, better than earlier in the year. I am also still harvesting #tomatoes.
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2024-09-07 14:39:56 UTC

Updated my Saatchi Art portfolio with several new #photographs from the #garden. Saatchi is where you can buy #handmade limited edition #prints of my work.
https://www.saatchiart.com/wolfkettler
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