# Gardening with Julia

> Flowers, plants and stories from a mountain garden in Bran, Romania


## Posts

- [The garden in November](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/the-garden-in-november/): My November tasks in the garden in Bran: mounded roses, protected hydrangeas, pots under cover and the sowing plan for February.
- [The garden in October](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/the-garden-in-october/): My October tasks in the garden in Bran: bulbs, bare-root roses, dahlias, leaves, apples in the cellar and seeds to save.
- [The garden under snow](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/the-garden-under-snow/): My garden in Bran (Brașov County, Romania) on a day of heavy snow. Photo from my own archive.
- [The perennials that came through winter well in my garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/perennials-that-came-through-winter/): In the first days when the snow begins to shyly retreat, the garden doesn’t give you all the answers at once.
- [First tasks after the snow melts](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/first-tasks-after-the-snow-melts/): In the mountains, snow doesn’t retreat all at once.
- [Roses after the rain](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/roses-after-the-rain/): There’s a magic hour after a summer rain stops when the garden seems to me at its peak.
- [Summer colors in Bran](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/summer-colors-in-bran/): My first summer here, in 2007, puzzled me.
- [The garden in September](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/the-garden-in-september/): My September tasks in the garden in Bran: flowers, perennials, bulbs, the lawn and getting ready for the first cold nights.

## Pages

- [Practical guides](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/): Practical, step-by-step advice for a mountain garden: sowing, soil, plant health, pruning and protection.
- [My Garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/my-garden/): With patience, season after season.
- [About](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/about/): I’m Julia. My story begins in my grandparents’ gardens and continues, season after season, here in Bran.
- [Home](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/): Stories through the seasons.
- [Trandafirii din familia The Fairy: roz, roșu și magenta](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/trandafiri/the-fairy/): Trei trandafiri crescuți pe rădăcini proprii, care s-au dovedit robuști, generoși și mult mai viguroși decât mă așteptam.
- [Tăierea hortensiilor](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/taieri-in-functie-de-tipul-plantei/taierea-hortensiilor/): Ghid practic pentru tăierea hortensiilor macrophylla, paniculata, arborescens și quercifolia: lemn vechi sau nou, calendar pentru Bran și greșelile de evitat.
- [Tăierea trandafirilor](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/taieri-in-functie-de-tipul-plantei/taierea-trandafirilor/): Ghid practic pentru tăierea trandafirilor de tufă, arbustivi și urcători: momentul potrivit, pașii de lucru și greșelile de evitat.
- [Indigoletta – trandafir urcător violet-lila](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/trandafiri/indigoletta/): Fișa trandafirului urcător Indigoletta: flori violet-lila, parfum puternic, rezistență pentru zona 6a și plantarea la Bran în octombrie 2026.
- [Trandafiri](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/trandafiri/): Biblioteca trandafirilor din grădina de la Bran: fișe pe soi, observații pentru climatul de munte și colecția de 33 de trandafiri plantați în octombrie 2026.
- [Phlox – Brumărele de vară](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/phlox-brumarele-de-vara/): În grădina mea, phloxul înalt apare printre trandafiri, ca plantă companion, cu flori roz, magenta și liliachii adunate în buchete la vârful tulpinilor.
- [Hortensiile din grădina mea de la munte](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/hortensiile-in-gradina-de-munte/): În fotografiile grădinii mele, hortensiile apar în roz, alb și liliachiu, cu flori când rotunde, când alungite sau dantelate.
- [Tăieri în funcție de tipul plantei](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/taieri-in-functie-de-tipul-plantei/): Când și cât tai depinde de planta din fața mea.
- [Plante aromatice la munte](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/plante-aromatice-la-munte/): În grădina mea, aromaticele se împart în două categorii: cele care se întorc singure în fiecare primăvară și cele pe care le chem eu înapoi.
- [Plantarea bulbilor la munte](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/plantarea-bulbilor-la-munte/): La munte, bulbii pe care îi cultiv se împart, pentru mine, în două mari categorii: cei plantați toamna pentru primăvara următoare și cei sensibili la ger, pe care îi aduc în grădină după încălzirea vremii.
- [Protecția grădinii pe timpul iernii](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/protectia-gradinii-pe-timpul-iernii/): La munte, din noiembrie grădina intră în repaus, dar vremea nu îi oferă întotdeauna liniște.
- [Plante rezistente la munte](https://coltdeplai.ro/gradina/plante-rezistente-la-munte/): Ce am învățat, de-a lungul anilor, despre frig, umezeală, vânt și puterea plantelor de a reveni.
- [Colecția mea de trandafiri](https://coltdeplai.ro/gradina/colectia-mea-de-trandafiri/): Trandafirii care cresc de mulți ani în grădina mea și soiurile alese pentru noua grădină.
- [Sol și apă](https://coltdeplai.ro/gradina/sol-si-apa/): Pământul de sub flori și drumul apei la 770 de metri.
- [Climă și expunere](https://coltdeplai.ro/gradina/clima-si-expunere/): Așezată între Bucegi și Piatra Craiului, grădina mea înfruntă zilnic capriciile vremii.
- [Munstead Wood](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/trandafiri/munstead-wood/): Munstead Wood, trandafir englezesc David Austin: parfum intens, 2–3 valuri de înflorire și observații din aproximativ cinci ani în grădina mea din Bran.
- [Cum îmi protejez grădina de vânt la munte](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/cum-protejam-gradina-de-vant-la-munte/): În grădina mea de la Bran (județul Brașov), la aproximativ 770 m altitudine, vântul este unul dintre lucrurile de care trebuie să țin cont când plantez.
- [Gazonul toamna la munte, cu trei câini de talie mare](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/plantare-si-ingrijire-pe-anotimpuri/gazonul-toamna-cu-caini/): Cum repar gazonul toamna în grădina din Bran, cu trei câini mari: semințele care au funcționat la mine, semănatul, substratul, tunsul și protejarea peticelor.
- [Calendarul de plantare și îngrijire la munte](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/calendarul-de-plantare-la-munte/): Un reper de consultat an de an. Acest calendar reunește lucrările posibile, lună de lună, fără să stabilească date fixe.
- [Plantare și îngrijire pe anotimpuri](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/plantare-si-ingrijire-pe-anotimpuri/): Cum repar peticele rărite, ce semințe au funcționat la mine și ce schimbă prezența câinilor în planul de îngrijire.
- [Boli și dăunători](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/boli-si-daunatori/): Există un moment, în fiecare lună mai, în care grădina mea arată perfect. Pentru două săptămâni.
- [Fertilizare și îngrijirea solului](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/sol-compost-si-mulcire/): Am ajuns la convingerea că, într-o grădină de munte, solul merită la fel de multă atenție ca și plantele.
- [Semănat și răsaduri la munte](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/semanare-si-rasaduri/): Am încercat iar și iar, în fiecare primăvară, să semăn direct în pământ, așa cum găseam recomandat în cărțile de grădinărit.
- [Ghiduri practice](https://coltdeplai.ro/ghiduri-practice/): Pașii de lucru pentru grădina de la munte: semănat, sol, sănătatea plantelor, tăieri și protecție.
- [Garofițe turcești](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/garofite-turcesti/): Ciorchini de culoare care revin singuri, trec iernile de la Bran și înfloresc până la prima brumă.
- [Digitalis](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/digitalis/): Clopoței pictați pe tije înalte — spectacol de vară pentru semiumbră și magnet pentru bondari.
- [Politică cookie-uri (UE)](https://coltdeplai.ro/politica-cookie-uri-ue/): Această Politică cookie-uri a fost actualizată ultima dată pe 25 octombrie 2026 și se aplică cetățenilor și rezidenților permanenți din Spațiul Economic European și Elveția.
- [Termeni de utilizare](https://coltdeplai.ro/termeni-de-utilizare/): COLȚ DE PLAI este un site editorial despre grădinărit și viața într-o grădină de munte din Bran.
- [Contact](https://coltdeplai.ro/contact/): Ai o întrebare despre plante, o poveste din propria grădină sau o propunere de colaborare? Trimite-mi un mesaj și îți răspund cât pot de repede.
- [Plante](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/): Aici găsești fișele plantelor din grădina mea, în ordine alfabetică.
- [Echinacea](https://coltdeplai.ro/plante/echinacea/): Echinaceea este una dintre cele mai iubite plante din grădina mea.
- [Jurnal](https://coltdeplai.ro/jurnal/): Însemnări din grădina mea, de-a lungul anotimpurilor: ce a înflorit, ce am schimbat și ce am învățat.
- [Politica de confidențialitate](https://coltdeplai.ro/politica-de-confidentialitate/): Operatorul site-ului COLȚ DE PLAI este Iulia Comisu, Bran, județul Brașov, România.
- [Acasă](https://coltdeplai.ro/): Povești din fiecare anotimp.
- [Despre](https://coltdeplai.ro/despre/): Sunt Iulia. Povestea mea începe în grădinile bunicilor și continuă, anotimp după anotimp, la Bran.
- [Grădina mea](https://coltdeplai.ro/gradina/): Cu răbdare, anotimp după anotimp.
- [Foc de tabără](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/foc-de-tabara/): Distinctive red flowers in generous flushes. Two bushes I have grown for several years in Bran, with very high susceptibility to black spot.
- [Rote The Fairy](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/rote-the-fairy/): Red flower clusters on a low-growing bush. Two potted plants bought in September 2026 for the next chapter of my collection.
- [Gräfin Sonja](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/grafin-sonja/): Soft pink and a classic hybrid tea form. Gräfin Sonja joins the collection record following my September 2026 purchase.
- [Ghita Renaissance](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/ghita-renaissance/): Pink flowers and a fragrance highlighted by its breeder. Two Ghita Renaissance plants joined my collection in September 2026.
- [Isabel Renaissance](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/isabel-renaissance/): Dark red, double flowers. Isabel Renaissance is one of the Poulsen roses added to my collection in 2026.
- [Princess Alexandra Renaissance](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/princess-alexandra-renaissance/): Deep pink, large blooms and a fragrance described as strong. Two Princess Alexandra Renaissance plants for my collection.
- [Bering Renaissance](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/bering-renaissance/): Pale lavender and many-petalled flowers. Bering Renaissance joins my collection as two potted plants.
- [Pink Peace](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/pink-peace/): Large flowers in vivid pink. Pink Peace begins its story in my collection with one potted plant.
- [Helena Renaissance](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/helena-renaissance/): Pale pink and luminous petals. Helena Renaissance is new to my collection, bought in a pot in September 2026.
- [La Minuette](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/la-minuette/): Pale petals edged in pink-red. A floribunda bought in a pot for my 2026 collection.
- [Harlekin](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/harlekin/): Bicoloured blooms for a garden that grows upwards too. Harlekin was bought in a C2 pot as a second-year plant.
- [Antike](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/antike/): Cream and red, with flowers that return during the season. Antike is one of the climbers bought for my 2026 collection.
- [Plant combinations from my garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/my-garden/plant-combinations/): Three plant combinations photographed in Bran, with plant profiles and simple sketches.
- [Burgundy Iceberg](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/burgundy-iceberg/): Burgundy Iceberg in Bran: two flowering flushes, no noticeable fragrance and strong susceptibility to black spot.
- [Nina Weibull](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/nina-weibull/): Nina Weibull in Bran: red flowers from late June until November, very faint scent and susceptibility to black spot.
- [Zepeti](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/zepeti/): Small red flowers without fragrance: my Zepeti bushes and small standard in Bran.
- [Buddleja — in my garden in Bran](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/buddleja/): Four shrubs, two purple and two pink, that have grown large over eight years. In my garden, buddleja flowers from July until November.
- [Hellebores — in my garden in Bran](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/hellebores/): As autumn flowers retreat, hellebores open their buds. In my garden, two clumps carry the flowering season from November into May.
- [Rosarium Uetersen](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/rosarium-uetersen/): Rosarium Uetersen, a Kordes climbing rose: very double deep pink flowers, two flushes of bloom and notes from six years in my garden in Bran, Romania.
- [Heather in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/heather-in-my-mountain-garden/): Calluna and erica look very much alike, and I grow both in my garden in Bran.
- [Winter heath in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/winter-heath-in-my-mountain-garden/): Erica and calluna look very much alike, and I grow both in my garden in Bran.
- [Blue for You](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/blue-for-you/): Blue for You, a floribunda rose: single, unscented flowers in flushes from June to November, and notes from four years in my garden in Bran, Romania.
- [Regensberg](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/regensberg/): Regensberg, a McGredy floribunda rose: pink flowers edged in white, two or three flushes of bloom and notes from six years in my garden in Bran, Romania.
- [The old pear trees in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/pear-trees-in-my-mountain-garden/): In my garden in Bran, there are old pear trees, at least 50 years old.
- [The old plum trees in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/plum-trees-in-my-mountain-garden/): In my garden in Bran, there are two old plum trees, at least 50 years old.
- [The old apple tree in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/apple-trees-in-my-mountain-garden/): In my garden in Bran, there are old apple tree, at least 50 years old.
- [The snapdragons in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/snapdragons-in-my-mountain-garden/): Did you know that snapdragons grown from seed bloom in the fall, too?
- [The English daisies in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/english-daisies-in-my-mountain-garden/): Did you know that English daisies (Bellis perennis) grown from seed show their first flowers as early as the fall?
- [The pansies in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/pansies-in-my-mountain-garden/): Did you know that pansies can be planted in the fall, not just in spring?
- [The chrysanthemums in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/chrysanthemums-in-my-mountain-garden/): Toward the end of fall, when the rest of the garden is saying goodbye, chrysanthemums bring a splash of color right up to the first hard frosts, in lovely shades of pale pink, cyclamen, red or magenta.
- [Garden pinks](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/garden-pinks/): Garden pinks in my mountain garden in Bran: flowering from May or June until November, Agrosem seedlings, drainage, deadheading and winter survival.
- [Pruning fruit trees](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/pruning-by-plant-type/pruning-fruit-trees/): Without leaves, the canopy becomes an open book: you can quickly spot branches that cross and areas that are too shady.
- [Pruning clematis](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/pruning-by-plant-type/pruning-clematis/): A white large-flowered clematis on the garden obelisk after a summer rain.
- [Pruning ornamental shrubs](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/pruning-by-plant-type/pruning-ornamental-shrubs/): When does it flower, and on which stems?
- [The mountain planting and care calendar](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/planting-calendar/): A guide to revisit year after year. This calendar gathers the possible tasks, month by month, without setting fixed dates.
- [Sowing and seedlings in the mountains](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/sowing-and-seedlings/): Spring after spring, I tried again and again to sow directly in the ground, as the gardening books recommended.
- [Pests and diseases](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/pests-and-diseases/): There’s a moment every May when my garden looks perfect. For two weeks.
- [Feeding and soil care](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/soil-compost-and-mulch/): I’ve come to believe that in a mountain garden, the soil deserves as much attention as the plants.
- [Fall lawn care with three large dogs](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/seasonal-planting-and-care/fall-lawn-care-with-dogs/): A lawn that’s alive and easy to repair, not a perfect one.
- [How I protect my garden from wind in the mountains](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/wind-protection-in-the-mountains/): In my garden in Bran (Brașov County, Romania), at about 770 m (2,500 ft), wind is one of the things I have to keep in mind when planting.
- [Seasonal planting and care](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/seasonal-planting-and-care/): How I repair thinned-out patches, which seed worked for me and what having dogs changes in the care plan.
- [Sweet William](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/sweet-william/): Clusters of color that come back on their own, get through Bran’s winters and bloom until the first frost.
- [Echinacea](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/echinacea/): Echinacea is one of the best-loved plants in my garden.
- [Foxglove (Digitalis)](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/foxglove/): Painted bells on tall spires — a summer show for part shade and a magnet for bumblebees.
- [Hardy mountain plants](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/my-garden/hardy-mountain-plants/): What I’ve learned over the years about cold, damp, wind and plants’ ability to come back.
- [Pruning hydrangeas](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/pruning-by-plant-type/pruning-hydrangeas/): The hydrangeas in the garden before the spring pruning.
- [Munstead Wood](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/munstead-wood/): Velvety crimson and old rose fragrance. An English rose that returns in flushes of flowers.
- [The Fairy family of roses: pink, red and magenta](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/the-fairy/): Three own-root roses that have proven tough, generous and far more vigorous than I expected.
- [Pruning roses](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/pruning-by-plant-type/pruning-roses/): Removing spent flowers isn’t the same as the main pruning of the bush.
- [My rose collection](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/my-garden/my-rose-collection/): The roses that have grown in my garden for many years, and the varieties chosen for the new garden.
- [The hydrangeas in my mountain garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/hydrangeas-in-my-mountain-garden/): In photos of my garden, the hydrangeas show up in pink, white and lilac, with flowers that are sometimes round, sometimes cone-shaped or lacy.
- [Roses](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/): Here I gather, variety by variety, the roses I grow in my garden in Bran, Brașov County, Romania.
- [Garden phlox](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/garden-phlox/): In my garden, tall phlox grows among the roses as a companion plant, with pink, magenta and lilac flowers gathered in clusters at the top of the stems.
- [Planting bulbs in the mountains](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/planting-bulbs-in-the-mountains/): In the mountains, the bulbs I grow fall, for me, into two big categories: those planted in fall for the following spring, and the frost-tender ones I bring into the garden once the weather warms up.
- [Herbs in the mountains](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/herbs-in-the-mountains/): In my garden, herbs fall into two categories: the ones that come back on their own every spring and the ones I call back myself.
- [Pruning by plant type](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/pruning-by-plant-type/): When and how much I prune depends on the plant in front of me.
- [Soil and water](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/my-garden/soil-and-water/): The ground beneath the flowers and the path water takes at 770 meters.
- [Protecting the garden in winter](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/winter-garden-protection/): In the mountains, the garden goes dormant from November, but the weather doesn’t always give it peace.
- [Climate and exposure](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/my-garden/climate-and-exposure/): Set between the Bucegi Mountains and Piatra Craiului, my garden faces the whims of the weather every day.
- [Indigoletta – a violet-lilac climbing rose](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/roses/indigoletta/): Large violet-lilac flowers and strong fragrance. A climbing rose planted in Bran in October 2026.
- [Terms of use](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/terms-of-use/): Gardening with Julia is an editorial site about gardening and life in a mountain garden in Bran, Romania.
- [Cookie Policy (EU)](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/cookie-policy/): Această Politică cookie-uri a fost actualizată ultima dată pe octombrie 25, 2026 și se aplică cetățenilor și rezidenților permanenți din Spațiul Economic European și Elveția.
- [Contact](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/contact-me/): Have a question about plants, a story from your own garden or an idea for a collaboration? Send me a message and I’ll reply as soon as I can.
- [Journal](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/journal/): Notes from my garden through the seasons: what bloomed, what I changed and what I learned.
- [Privacy policy](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/privacy/): The operator of Gardening with Julia is Iulia Comisu, Bran, Brașov County, Romania.
- [Plants](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/plants/): Here you’ll find profiles of the plants in my garden, in alphabetical order.
- [My Garden](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/my-garden/): With patience, season after season.
- [Practical guides](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/guides/): Practical, step-by-step advice for a mountain garden: sowing, soil, plant health, pruning and protection.
- [About](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/about/): I’m Julia. My story begins in my grandparents’ gardens and continues, season after season, here in Bran.
- [Home](https://gardeningwithjulia.com/): Stories through the seasons.

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