With temperatures now into the 20s and the evenings getting longer, the terrace is rapidly becoming my place to enjoy life in the Cottageviertel. While I can’t call my terrace a garden, although it is home to a variety of plants – some gifted, some bought (a couple from the Botanischer Garten’s Raritätenbörse), and some even grown from cuttings from friends. The buzz of the Lambretta scooters zipping up and down the road after hibernation has returned, and the plants that had been brought into the landing during the winter are now back outside, now that any fear of a later frost or snow has subsided. Continue reading “May the gardening season begin…”