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A garden in Holland. Welcome on the gardensite of Thijs de Graaf. (E-mail: tjdegraaf@gmail.com.) about my hobby "gardening".

The pictures of my garden are from different seasons. Winter, spring, summer and autumn and have their own charm. In "spring 2007" and “summer flowers” I describe many plants. Also I have mentioned my house plants and euphorbia. On the page "garden" you can see pictures of the front- and back garden.

In 2007, I  have started to describe the animals in the garden. Many insects have their own page now. (butterflies, damsel-dragonflies, flies,beetles, bugs, hoverflies 1 and 2)

My holidays

I also have made some pages about different holidays. I describe the landscape as much as possible. Of course I have made a choice. The pictures of France are from a long time ago. But also the pictures of Ireland and Scotland I had to scan. Czechia and England are the last visited countries. May 2008: Spain: Andalusia. New 2012: Australia

The dunes

In Januari 2009 I have made a start with a page about the dunes around here.

The photos are taken with an hp photosmart 735 and from 2007 also with a hp photosmart  R818. From 2008 a Fujifilm FinePix S9600. From May 2010 a Sony digital camera DSLR-A450.

I wish you much joy!

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Nothing on this site may be reproduced or published without prior consent of the owner. So please send an e-mail. For non-commercial purposes, I always will give permission. 

Subpage flies:          Tachinidae   Blow-flies (Calliphoridae)   House flies (Muscidae)  Soldierflies (Stratiomyidae)  Root-Maggot Flies (Anthomyiidae)   Small flies   Gnats            
Subpage wasps, bees, bumblebees: Parasitica, Ichneumonidae    Sawflies symphyta    Bumblebees       
Subpage beetles:        Ground beetles (Carabidae)   Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)  Snout beetles, weevils   Longhorn beetles, similar to longhorn beetles    Ladybirds, Ladybugs, Coccinellidae                  
Subpage bugs:            Plantbugs, Miridae   Cicadas   
Subpage butterflies:    Atalanta, Red Admiral, Owlet moths,  Geometer moths,   Leafrollers, tortrix moths,     Pyralidae, Crambidae                            
Subpage dragonflies:   Southern Hawker, Blue Hawker
Subpage France:         Insects France  France, Picardy Normandy
Subpage Summerflowers:  Summer flowering shrubs.

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http://www.dirkustrations.com/  Illustrations, paintings of Dirk Jan de Graaf. (illustrator)

August 2012.

The removal of our sick horse chestnut. When we came back from our holiday to Australia ( on June 1) one of our chestnuts already lost all its leaves. There was no sap under the bark.  I have made a report of the removal of the tree on August 2, 2012. Photo 5 June 2012: You can see the difference with the left chestnut and the chestnuts on the front of the house.