Field notes / No. 06A garden somewhere outside Berlin, Germany52° 31′ N
my perennials
A personal garden journal

Let things
come back.

900 square metres, give or take.
A perennial garden in Brandenburg, made slowly by Ida Müller. Notes on plants, weather and learning to leave a little room.

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A flowering garden border beside a country house
Grown here
Brandenburg
DE
The garden, around 6:40 pm
Perennials over passing trends✳Gardened near Berlin✳Notes from the seasons✳Started with one border
01 — The garden, in chapters

Things in bloom

Plants have their own calendars.
These are a few of mine.
/01
A richly layered pink peony in full bloom
EARLY SUMMER

Peonies

Paeonia
“A week, maybe two”

The peonies never stay long. I have stopped trying to make them. Now I just keep the vase close.Ida’s notebook  ↗

/02
A spherical purple allium flower in full bloom
LATE SPRING

Ornamental alliums

Allium
“Small planets overhead”

Their violet globes hover above the border just as everything else is waking up.Ida’s notebook  ↗

/03
An orange daylily open in the summer sun
HIGH SUMMER

Daylilies

Hemerocallis
“One day is enough”

A new flower opens every morning. By evening, it has already given everything.Ida’s notebook  ↗

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Pink and white flowers growing together in a garden bed
A note to myself
“The garden doesn’t need me to hurry. It already knows what comes next.”
Ida Müller   /   late July
02 — The regulars

A growing index

The names I keep coming back to.
PLANT / 01✳

Lavender

Lavandula
Notes from a Brandenburg garden
PLANT / 02✳

Stonecrop

Sedum
Notes from a Brandenburg garden
PLANT / 03✳

Meadow-rue

Thalictrum
Notes from a Brandenburg garden
PLANT / 04✳

Plantain lily

Hosta
Notes from a Brandenburg garden
PLANT / 05✳

Astilbe

Astilbe
Notes from a Brandenburg garden
PLANT / 06✳

Coral bells

Heuchera
Notes from a Brandenburg garden
03 — The person with the muddy knees

I’m Ida. Hello.

I live in a small town just outside Berlin. My 900 m² garden is mostly perennials: peonies, lavender, alliums, daylilies, and the plants that find their way in between. I write down what I notice, what works, and what I’ll try again next year.

HomeBrandenburg, DE
Garden size900 m², roughly
Favourite jobWatching things return
Currently learningTo leave it alone