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Joanna Nowacka - Zaborska has several Facebook photo albums full of images of her succulent 1 - Akka garden in central Poland , near the Vistula river basin . She ’s very proud of this labor of dear , and enjoys sharing the peach she has create with others . Joanna and her married man bought the holding , located on a former strawberry force field , about 15 old age ago . She started out with a barren mess , minuscule gardening experience , and a location beset by sandy soil and challenging climate precondition . Driven by her warmth and never - give - up attitude , she single - handedly transform the grounds into a paradise of bloom .
After plant a few kind ofPhlox paniculata , Joanna begin to produce her own crisscross seedling and now has many dissimilar trace of phlox in a funny border in the garden .
“ I have planted thousands of plant , year by year . I excavate every golf hole , I imbed every prime , and do the weed alone , because only I have it away where to plant and what plant to foot , ” she say .
Although Joanna has studied horticulture , much of her garden knowledge and esthetic eye came from confabulate garden in England and read infinite books on the bailiwick . From there , her experimental nature and habituation to finding newfangled plant varieties take in over . “ I have bought every variety and metal money of decorative plant that I could discover in the nurseries in Poland . I also love to observe the seedling in my garden . After planting a few variety show ofPhlox paniculata , I started to produce my own interbreeding seedlings , so now you may see many different shadows of the phloxes in a fly-by-night delimitation in my garden , ” she says .
Joanna Nowacka - Zaborska ’s biggest challenge in her garden is Mother Nature with stop dead temperatures in the wintertime and lashings of Charles Percy Snow , spring frosts , and then too much summertime rain ( or complete want of it ) .
As is true for many gardeners , the boastful challenge for Joanna has been Mother Nature . “ In the wintertime , we typically have a fate of C. P. Snow , and -20 degrees Anders Celsius temperatures . But sometimes it drop below -40 degrees Celsius without snow cover , and then the ground freezes to a profoundness of 1 metre ( more than 3 feet ) . Many plant life mintage give-up the ghost easily in such experimental condition . I drop off many ornamental bulb every few years and lots of perennial . During fountain , we often have frost around the midsection of May , which kills many plant as well , ” she deplore .
During the summertime , her challenge is often too much rainfall — or the complete lack of it . “ Some years , we have temperate summer temperatures with sufficient rain . But other years are frightfully red-hot with abominable droughts lasting many week , ” she says . Because her garden lies in a former river bottom of the Vistula , it is also prostrate to implosion therapy if it rain incessantly . “ I will sometimes lose entire plant appeal if the level of water supply arise too high . ”
Because of these irregular stipulation , she favors plant life that can live the worst . “ I have prove perfectly everything that one could purchase in Polish greenhouse . I have learned what plant are sturdy and will stay strong and level-headed . I am crazy about Funka ( I have over 100 miscellany ) and ornamental grasses , which just recently became ‘ stylish ’ in Poland . I love genus Echinacea , particularly the newer assortment in every shade of pinkish , red , and yellow . They survive freeze and very dry conditions , ” she says .
To see more photos of Joanna ’s garden , visit herFacebook varlet .
Over 100 varieties of Funka , plus ornamental dope and Echinacea were choose for this lush 1 - acre garden in Poland because of their toughness and power to survive frost and very dry conditions .
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