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JonnaSudenius said:
Fiwit, I live in the eastern part of Belgium, near the German boarder and it's the only part of Belgium in zone 6, the rest of the small country is zone 7 or 8. I'm Dutch, but moved to Belgium 8 years ago.

Wow, that's a beautfiul garden!

Well, since you're Dutch, I won't say Bon Jour! My year in Florennes was one of the best years of my life. I still remember our trip to Keukenhof that April to see the tulips, and that was 1988. Memorable things stick with you, I guess. East Belgium, near the German border... we didn't get over that way much. We spent more time in Luxembourg and France. I remember driving through Aachen one time, and maybe Ghent, but it's been so long I don't even remember my Belgian geography (it was 1988).

I just realized the first non-American I ever knew was a Dutch lady. She was my mom's best friend, and a neighbor of ours when I was growing up. She married a US soldier after the war, and wound up in central Ohio. As I recall, her entire front yard was flowers (she had the steepest hill on our block, and we couldn't sled on it because she planted flowers on it instead).