10 ideas for your Dutch garden

The reason for this blog is this: I meet a lot of internationals, who bought a house. And, a year after the house is finished. But their Dutch garden is a whole different issue. It can use some ideas, attention and love. To give you an idea: we have a 70m2 garden....

Maintenance calendar for a Dutch house

On Dutch television, there is a programme which is called “Wie is de mol?”. A favourite of many people. In this programme, the attendees are doing a lot of games. One attendee is sabotaging the whole game in secret. And you need to guess who that is. ...

Water in the Netherlands? There is always enough or not?

Water in the Netherlands. As a little girl, it was so normal to have water everywhere around our house. In the village, I grew up, every street had its own ditch. And we lived closed to a large river, called “de Lek”.  As the seasons went, there was always...

Gardening in the Netherlands

Hot weather This week in Eindhoven it is more than 35 degrees Celsius during the days, and above 20 degrees at night. We even slept in our back garden this week, just to cool down a bit. Which worked! Although it’s too hot to be in the garden in the afternoons,...