How High/Low is Yours?

[Casalima]

My flat is at 35m and the shallow river in my little town appears to be at between 1 meter and 10 meters, depending on where the cursor is ... hmm I don't know whether that reflects the rather (dangerously) uneven river bed. My land in the country ranges from 178m at its lowest point, to 213m where the house is and 221m at the highest point. I also have a little bit of land up in the hills with a spring for drinking water for the house (0.85km or 0.52 miles away) which is at 367-377m.

My children are pretty cute too  sez I modestly ...

Chloë

[Anthony Darby]

That's the same aerial pic as on "Flashearth" Susan, again with no heights. It's even got the recycling lorry at the entrance of Leighton Avenue, just over the hedge from me!

Maggi, James is definitely a chip off the old block!

[Joakim B]

I can vouch for that the children of Chloë are pretty cute.

Nice with a spring of Your own! Maybe You should do a Spa insted of a B&B or a combined thing

Take care.

By the way I am gardening ona balcony in Lund at 35 m and in a garden (parents) at 75m. The summerhouse (parents) is at 35 m with winds only coming from south at ground level.
In Porugal we garden at 134 m on balcony and 130 m in the garden (parents-in-law). In Lisbon it will be at 87 m on a minibalcony .
Luckely there is some land for me to play with and grow olive and citrus trees at 235m and a more shelterd place with less space at also 235m.
So a lot of places to play at but very few are mine, only the one in Hungary.

Joakim

[mark smyth]

my sat nav says I'm 62m above sea level

[Casalima]

And I can vouch that Joakim's little Father Christmas is very cute!! 

Chloë

[Susan Band]

What I have noticed in this thread it is surprising how many people have either 2 gardens or extra plots of ground quite a distance from their house. I thought I was the only mad person that travelled each day to their plants. In the case of Joakim he seems to have plants all over Europe

[Maggi Young]

Chloë, I didn't know you had children but I wouldn't have doubted their cuteness for an instant!
I second Joakim's Spa suggestion... you can charge us a lot more for a spa visit than for a B&B  and you know we are all queuing up...

Anthony, I can see a little of you in James, but, frankly, Vivienne is fab, so I reckon that the answer is there!

[Joakim B]

Susan B
At least in Sweden there is a tradition of summer houses for people living in cities. The houses where often permanent houses that where sold due to the owner moved to the city or of the family of the previous owner was not interested in keeping it. There where also a lot of summer house vilage built near the coast in Sweden so that is quite common. Now with propertiess being more expensive it is getting less common. There are a lot of interest from Danes Germans and Dutch (People from more crowed countries) to buy summer houses in Sweden. I also see that trend in Portugal with the houses in the country side being sold to citypeople to be used as summer houses.

I garden where I am and am using my pareents and parents in-laws-properties to be able to do that.
The alternative would be an alotment that is also common in Sweden but why pay when it is free at the parents place

In Hungary the alotments are outside the cities and used to be for growing vegetables and grapes for vine as well some as flowers. hen You were certain that You had something more than bread and potatoe to eat.
They often had a small house but generally not with running water and the rain water was collected to be used to water the garden. Now many of these houses are getting bigger and bigger almost suitable for permanet living and city water is also coming to many more places.
We bought first on alotment in Hungary that was a double and then the neigbour wanted to sell so I bught it and a few years later my neighbur also wanted to sell. I think it was due to them being old rather than we being bad neigbours. The next ones have bigger houses and are younger so the expansion has stopped.

In Portugal the properties where I grow is also where the family used to live and some still do so it is 40 minutes drive to the place. In Portugal the properties have risen a lot (at least close to the expanding cities) so people try to keep it for the grand children so there are a small place that used to be a farm next to a modern 10 store house almost in the midle of the city.

The fact that I am a Swede whos parents moved to the university city from small cities with a father that came from Hungary and now with a Portuguse wife who´s parents moved from small vilage to university city makes me garden all over Europe.

Sorry that it became a bit long but that is why I garden all over Europe.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

Joakim, now I have a good title for you, you will become our Euro Gardener !
I was expecting you to be back at work  in Lund to the university after the Christmas holidays, are you finished there now?

[Joakim B]

Maggi
I am now working at both he university in Coimbra and the one in Lund.
I were a week in Lund hence my silince 2 weeks ago.

I only strive to be a gardner I am more of a planter to be honest.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

Mercy, you're working at two places in two countries? That IS busy ! Now I must give you a better title... it will make a nice joke for British forumists, who may use the train to go to the continent... you are now  our EuroStar!

[Joakim B]

Maggi I am flatterned and flattened.
The work is actually one work that I do in two places and often from home, at least in Portugal, so I am not really a star even if I have the extra job of also taking care of my son when he is not with his grandparents, like today, so we are playing and I pretend to work and actually do some as well.
a humble
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

No, Joakim, this is a planter:

You are so much more than just this empty vessel !

This is more you: sleek and busy


Our Euro Star and a good Father!

[Joakim B]

Can not someone that plants a lot call himself planter?
I thought it was possible to make words like that.
In Swedish t is possible. Maybe not if the word already exist with a different meaning.

I can be a like a train just rushing forwards not that willing to change tracks but sometimes that is good.

I will try to honour the name by being even more European than before. No complaining with other countries


Kind regards
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

Can not someone that plants a lot call himself planter?

Of course he may, Joakim, I was teasing you.
Some years ago  I got Ian a shirt with the logo "Super Potter" on it for him to wear at bulb repotting time! The lady in the shop thought I was mad to be asking for a shirt with these strange words on!