Stinze-Stiens

door Mijnard Scheers                                                                                 4 april 2016

Snowdrops at the Weem in Warffum. The ‘Snowdrop-free strip’ is clearly visible. Photo: Tweet 12.03.2016. @marcoglastra, director Groninger Landschap

The medieval vicarage in Warffum (province of Groningen), where we moved to in 1972 as the first non-clergy after 700 years of occupation by preachers and vicars, has three-quarters of a hectare terrain with dozens of old fruit trees.

We were told that there were a lot of Snowdrops growing, which after their appearance at the end of January, could be admired for about two months. This turned out to be true; the majority of the terrain turns white because of the flowering Snowdrops and this continues until the end of March. – Read More –

Information: Natuurmonumenten / Maarten Vos, Management team employee-De Graafschap / Salland management unit.
Editors: Willem van Riemsdijk. Photos: Natuurmonumenten and Trudy van Riemsdijk – Zandee.

‘Dutch crocus’ (Crocus vernus) Hackfort, Vorden. Photo: Natuurmonumenten.

History

West of Vorden lies the Hackfort castle in the beautiful Achterhoek landscape with lanes, forests, fields, meadows and farms. The house is located on the Baaksebeek (locally called Hackfortse creek) with associated water mill.
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Willem van Riemsdijk, ed. and photos Trudy van Riemsdijk – Zandee

Barend Hooghoudt (son of doctor Hendrik Hooghoudt and Menna Hooghoudt-Hofstee) with niece Minnie. Photo, 1928. Archive: Heleen Hoevers-Hooghoudt. In the background the ‘vegetable garden circle’ with, among other things, beanpoles.

Our 19th century Vlaskamp garden in Stiens consists of a limited number of larger beds. One of those has been used as a vegetable garden since the construction of the garden. We refer to this bed as the ‘Vegetable Garden Circle’, because of the shape and because of the original function, although it no longer has the function of a kitchen garden. When we bought the property this part of the garden, like the rest of the garden, was an almost impenetrable wilderness. Nothing could be seen of its original structure.
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Willem van Riemsdijk & Trudy van Riemsdijk – Zandee

6 March 2015 Stinzenflora garden at the Doktershûs in Stiens.

History

In our case, in Stiens we have been managing the garden at Doktershus since mid-2012. It is slightly less than 3000 m2. There are many different types of Stinzenplants. present. The soil type is predominantly clay. The garden was originally designed by the landscape architect Gerrit Vlaskamp in 1863-1868. When we bought the site, there had been virtually no maintenance in the garden for a long time.

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The intention is that on this websitepage, several garden managers write something about their experiences with and motivation for a certain management of areas with an extensive Stinzenflora.

The management and optimisation of Stinzenflora has many facets and depends on many factors.

The type and intensity of management will depend on e.g. the history of the site, the location, the size, the type of soil, the manpower, the objective.

Elsewhere on this website, attention was paid to the management of a Stinzenplant garden at an earlier stage: Management concept development, and in the blogs of 8 April 2014; Intensive or extensive: experiences with the management of the Stinzenplant garden in Stiens and Stinzenplants at Martenastate in Koarnjum. (all in Dutch)