Silkscreening



























Today I silkscreened the entire afternoon with DrukDruk with for Pots & Paper this weekend. So much fun! 
From palm trees and leaves to plant instructions. It's looking very good, I must say. I can't wait to show you all! 
And all the other girls are busy working too. Check out their progress:

Preparations



























The posters and flyers were printed this week so i've started hanging them around Borgerhout. And I'm also
very pleased with my very first Botanical postcard series i've made.
This weekend it will all be about silkscreening! I'll show you some pictures on that later this weekend...

Pots & Paper


I'm so happy I can finally present you the poster of my latest project: Pots & Paper!
2 weeks from now, Bar Leon will be transformed into a world of plants and stationary: 
going from a free plant exchange, home made plant hangers and ceramics, to botanical 
prints and postcards. I invited 4 talented girls to join me in this project: Studio Meez,
Lisa Kinoo, Hermine Van Dijck and Belle Fleur de lis.  I can't wait but I still have so 
much to do. Aaargh!

I hope to see you all there!

And a big thank you to Druk≈Druk for making the poster!

May



























May is the month when you can plant almost everything outside!  
Tradition is to do it after May 15th because before then, it can sometimes be still too cold at night (Ijsheiligen). 
-  Plant outside:  lettuce, parsnip, beans, peas, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, courgettes,
    pumpkin, tomatoes, cucumber, radish, leek, celeriac, pickle, ...
- Your potatoes should start showing themselves so keep earthing up to prevent new tubors from growing 
   and turning green and poisonous.
- Put straw between your strawberries to keep the fruit from touching the soil and rot.  Thin your strawberry 
   plants if there are too many plants. They should have enough room to grow.  
- By the end of the month, add some organic fertilizers to your vegetables. 
   And as usual, keep on weeding!

PENCIL DRAWING by our strange nature -  ways to protect your crop

Royal greenhouses











Usually, at the start of a new month, I do a blogpost on gardening tips. But that will be for later this week 
because I wanted to share with you pictures of the Royal Greenhouses I visited this morning. So impressive! 
And the best part was... I was the very first to enter the greenhouses so I was able to take pictures without 
all the people behind me. The selection of plants wasn't very special but the greenhouses themselves were so beautiful! You can still visit them until 12th of May. Definately worth it!

Studio Meez is having a giveaway! Have a look.