Seed pods of the Snowdrop at Dekema State.
Most terrains with Stinzenplants are now in a transitional period. Dry-wet-sun-rain.
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8 March 2019
Stinzenflora-monitor 2019: Calendar week 10
Stinze Stiens
3 March 2019
Soil type and Stinzenplants
Tapestry of Bulbous Corydalis at Martenastate. Photo Stinze Stiens.
Historic sites with a beautiful Stinzenplant vegetation occur at various locations in the Netherlands. These areas occur on very different soil types. – Read More –
1 March 2019
Stinzenflora-monitor 2019: Calendar week 9
Squill (Scilla bifolia) in the Martenatuin (Franeker).
At the moment we are at a temporary turning point in the growth and flowering of Stinzenplants that is accompanied by a weather change. The unusually warm weather is now alternated by somewhat more normal weather and therefore lower temperatures. – Read More –
22 February 2019
Stinzenflora-monitor 2019: Calendar week 8
The Snowdrops with green and yellow ovaries mix in Park Jongemastate.
The prospects for the weekend and the days after are again excellent. Many correspondents report that this year both the Crocuses and the Snowdrops do exceptionally well. – Read More –
15 February 2019
Stinzenflora-monitor: Calendar week 7
A bee enjoys the Winter Aconites in the warm sunshine at Stinze Stiens.
We had some wonderful days this week and for the coming week the predictions are quite good too. The stinzenflora is now developing rapidly, but its development differs from place to place. – Read More –
14 February 2019
Compost tea, ‘high tea’ for soil life in the Stinzenflora garden
Stinzenflora garden Stinze Stiens.
A new method for me to stimulate soil life in the spring, and thereby also the Stinzenflora, is the use of what is called compost tea. The idea is that you create a concentrated culture of aerobic soil fungi and soil bacteria and dilute them somewhat before it can be sprayed over the plants and/or soil. The advantage of this method is that you can treat a large surface area without too much trouble with very little starting material and a limited amount of work. Especially for areas of a few thousand square meters, such as our site, this is quite feasible. – Read More –
9 February 2019
Stinzenflora-monitor 2019: Calendar week 6
Melting snow on the Snowdrops at Martenstate.
This is the first report of the Calendar of the Stinzenflora-monitor in 2019. The theme this year is ‘OndersteBoven van Stinzenplanten‘. (Downside up of Stinzenplants) The table has been renewed. It has been made more compact. There is now no longer the need to scrol and the difference between the category ‘full’ and ‘high’ was so small that it is now limited to ‘full’. And did you know that you can enlarge photos by clicking on them? We are ready for a new spring season. – Read More –
4 February 2019
Soil is the Basis (for the Bulbs)
Willem van Riemsdijk (Stinze Stiens)
Dutch Crocus, Snowflakes and Snowdrops in the background at Stinze Stiens.
In the Stinzenplant season of 2019 the theme of the Stinzenflora-monitor is: ‘OndersteBoven van Stinzenflora’. The Dutch expression means something like âbeing flabbergastedâ by stinzenplants. Literally OndersteBoven means âdownside upâ. So this year the focus will be: what is happening under the soil surface? The idea behind this theme is, among other things, to pay more attention to the soil in which the Stinzenplants grow and the management of that soil in such a way that the soil quality is improved, promoting the growth of the Stinzenplants. The soil in our garden at Stinze Stiens is not too heavy clay soil. This soil is per se not very suitable for a Stinzenplant garden, but it has a lot of potential. By increasing the organic matter content of the soil and stimulating the soil life, a very good soil quality can develop within a few years, which is very suitable for many Stinzenplants. – Read More –
1 December 2018
Stinzenflora-monitor: Calendar 2019, 9 February online
Bulbous Corydalis at Martenastate.
Strolling along Stinzen, country houses and other special monumental homes is becoming a popular activity in early spring for more and more people. The first spring flowering plants, âStinzenplantsâ, colour the estates and park gardens from mid-February. The Stinzenflora season runs until mid-May. There are differences between years for the optimal flowering times of these plants and therefore we created the Stinzenflora-monitor where you can see when, where what blooms. – Read More –
11 May 2018
Stinzenflora-monitor 2018: Calendar week 19
Star-of-Bethlehem in full bloom along the path to the coach house at Dekema State.
At the moment, there are still a lot of Stinzenplants in bloom. This is the last âCalendar’ week of the Stinzenflora season 2018 in the Stinzenflora-monitor. And do you know that a photo can be enlarged by clicking on it. – Read More –
