Garden Catch Up 3/4

Hi again, here is day 3 of my photo catch up from the last weeks in my garden!

Enjoy and if You have questions, just message me below!

My first flower bed from October last year going white, not on purpose though, this year I'm just cecking out how the plants work together and how they take turns. Some will be moved this fall, and some stay!

Here are a white Astilbe, a Abyssinean Gladiolus, Veronika and Rudbeckia

A Pelargonium "Happy thought Pink" growing like crazy

Hosta Mediovariegata & Heuchera Palace Purple

Dinner time in the Day lily "Joan Senior"

Hollyhock Alba & Pelargonium Quinquelobatum

Fuchsia

Phlox

Unknown Daylily

 The Candle Larkspur/Stor Riddarsporre in blooming for the second time this summer, so does the Sage/Salvia

Marigold "Bronzed Beauty"

 Flowers of the Physalis/Kapkrusbär & the Cucumber/Gurka

One of three apples on the new "Signe Tillish" tree

 My "Inner garden" next to the house

 Sunflower "Ruby F1"

And at last did I enjoy the fruits of my labour: warm Red beets and real butter blended with Italian Lemon Seasalt & Chili! Yum!

Enjoy Your day, Per!

Gift of flowers and more First this and that!

This week I was extremely lucky, a Facebook friend of mine, Anita Eriksson in Skutskär, asked me if I wish to have some of her plants!

They are building a new patio outside her apartment where she have big flower beds and she need to downsize. I went to her on my way to our summer cottage and picked up the plants.

Here they are back at my home, and I'm SO happy for them, a white Iris, a couple of different Day Lillies, a Agapanthus and a lot of other plants!

Thank You Anita :D

There is a LOT of firsts lately in my new garden, here is a few:

First Potatoes

First flowers on the Agapanthus from Lövstabruks Trädgårdsmästeri, unusual for the 1st year

First Cucumber flowers on a plant I got from Evy

First Fragant Tobacco Flower & First Black Currant

This "Pink Gallery" Lupin are now having a total of 10 flowers, amazing.

Today the First Hollyhock/Stockros "Alba" started to bloom

First Beetroot

First Flower on the Agapanthus from Anita & First Phlox

First Flower on the September Charm/Höstanemon

First Flowers on the white Astillbe

There is also a few First Insects in my garden:

Frittilary Butterfly/Pärlemorfjäril

Dragonfly/Trollslända

In a corner in my inner garden do I have this solid Brass sculpture I dragged home from Cochin-India, He's watching out for that part of the garden

I got more stuff for my garden at the local summer auction today, antique Swedish Jam pots and a a heavy 50 litre wooden box with handmade Iron mounting for my potted Hellekis Manor Walnut tree

The south barn wall towards the entrance start to shape up. Growing more quickly by the day is; Sun Flowers/Solrosor, Tobacco Flowers/Tobaksblommor, Summer Dahlias, Marigolds/Ringblommor, Mulleins/Kungsljus and Tagethes

On the other part do I have Tomatoes, Paprika, Chili & Pelargoniums

That's all for today, and I end with a photo of my new Jubilee Fuchsia thats just growing and growing

Have a great week, Per!

Perennial Flowerbed & Luck in Auction

Digged, prepared and planted a 7 meter long Perennial flowerbed in the more formal part of my garden. 

My goal is that it will bloom all season, attract Butterflies & Bees and have a lot of bulbs of springflowers.

The flowerbed are visible from my kitchen window and will have sun more or less all day.

The back of my house have the entrance and the kitchen window, to the right is the "barn", with the hedge making a kind of courtyard with a seating area and there I will have a more formal garden

Here along the logs that separate the lawn from the gravel will I place the Perenneial flower bed

I decided to make the measurements after pallet collars, and it would be place for 6 of them, that makes more than 7 meters

A Coffeebreak or as we say in Swedish: Fika

 The soil is AMAZING, really dark and full of Earthworms

Decided against the Pallet Collars (Pallkragar) and digged the whole way to the logs!

 The first Perennial plants are down, doesn't look much, but they are mostly new plants bought in Autumn sales for 50% off:

My favorite Rose Louis Bugnet furthest away, thereafter; Steppe Salvia (Stäppsalvia), Smartweed (Pilört), Echinacea Purpurea (Rudbeckia), Anemone September Charm (Höstanemon), Salvia Sensation Rosde, White Astillbe, Echinacea Alba (Rudbeckia Alba) & Peony Edulis Superba (Luktpion),.

And off course spring bulbs, the symbolic flower of our county is Fritillaria Melegris (Kungsängslilja) and a lot of "Wild" Tulips (Vildtulpaner); Tarda, Little Beauty, Little Princess & Little Wonder

 Anemone September Charm (Höstanemon) & Echinacea Purpurea (Rudbeckia)

 White Astillbe

My Village Lövstabruk are famous for the Auctions that have been going on every summer since I was a kid, I was lucky there was a auction the other day.

 I do not need stuff, but I'm always looking for the Swedish stonewear pots from "Höganäs", originally used to store food like Lingonberry Jam. They are heavy, sturdy and perfect for larger Geraniums, Fuchsias and large plants that You don't want to fall over. I usually put Leca in the bottom, then a plastic container with the flower, in that way You have the support, but also a water reserv.

I was lucky, there was ONE and it's a large one, 12 litre!

 I got it for for 100Skr approx usd$15 :D

Next year I will put my small Walnut tree in it! I got the tree at Hellekis Herrgård last year and up here it's too cold for them so I have to take it in every year!

Thats all for now, tune in again next time, Take Care, Per!