Now are Evenings the best time to work in the garden

Just now it's too hot to work in the gardens in the middle of the day, so early mornings, or evenings.

Since the sun going down around 22:00 there is a good 4 hours to do some job.

Like shifting stones for a new path!

But first: The Great Globe Thistle opened up its first flower today and quickly the Bumble Bees where there, I love it, my garden is buzzing all day long as I hoped :D

And just below in the shadow is the Dahlia "Playa Blanca" brighten up with it's first flower as well

In my shadow garden behind the "barn" have some work been done, yes I do actually working in the garden as well as taking photos of pretty flowers, they all need a start :D

Some of You maybe remember the mudbath it was there when I started this spring, if not, here it IS

Digging new flowerbeds here is always intresting, and hard work. Since there wheren't any Garbage collecting in the old days, people digged holes in their garden and dumped the stuff there. I find a lot of animal bones, porcelain, rusty metal, corks,... but mostly rocks and slagstones.

The rounder rocks going to a new path in the large shadow flower bed, from the garden to the compost. I just fill up everytime I find one

My Yellow "Meadow-Rue"/"Aklejruta" is the first to bloom in the part to the west, but more is coming

It looks pretty empty now, but these plants will be pretty large so I space them out a bit and have planted a lot of different ground cover plants to keep the moist here in the future.

(far left is a willow from our cottage)

Here to the East have the Rhododendrons had their amazing show, and now it's the different Day Lillies time to show off. Here the "Bugle weed"/"Revsuga" quickly cover the ground.

Next to the shaddow flower bed is the Irisbed. My neighbor cats use this as their toilet so many Irises are gone :(, but I'm continuing my task and have planted a lower Pink/White Geranium to cover the ground here so the cats have to find somewhere else to do their dumps. The Geraniums will also give a soft contrast to the sharp Iris leafs.

The Willow to the left was a braided stick I bought at the Nordic Garden Fair from some Danes.

Here in the end of the "Mid Easter Report" You can see when I planted it!

I put it there for fun, and since it's the lowest most moist part of my garden so I thought I could use it to suck up some water.

It seems to like it there

Not being a Fuchsia Lover/Expert, this "Fuchsia Jubilee" makes me change my mind!

I love it by my evening coffee place and it's quickly growing to a small bush.

My first Garlic Harvest of the "Aglio Rossi di Sulmona" from Gourmetgarage

And with that it's time to get out and enjoy the sun&heat, Per!

Colourful shadows in my garden

These days when the heat is balming here in Sweden do I enjoy the more shadowy part of my garden.

Often I find that there is more intresting plants here as well, and I do my best to add more, both wild and tame :D

Off course is it the Rhododendrons that is showing of at this time: come rain, come shine, they still look fantastic.

This one I planted for a few weeks ago, and loving it!

Lady's Mantle/Daggkåpa

I always found Ferns fascinating and cannot get enough of taking photos of the birth process.

Off course was my visit to Stewart Island in New Zealand a amazing moment, Ferns in all sizes and shapes, whole forrests with them

The new Bugle Ajuga Reptans/Revsuga start to get its first blue flowers, looking good against the dark leaves

My Astilboides/Parasollblad start to recover after freezing down a couple of times

Another favorite, the Hostas

This is the Hosta Mediovariegata/Brokfunkia

Another Fern

And now it's the time for the Ramson/Ramslök to bloom and spread its mild fragance of onion

I hope You all have a great weekend, Per!

Signe Tillisch coming home and New Flowerbeds in making

Two amazing days in the garden and it just get warmer and lighter by the day!

Perfect to be outside and forget time and have a thermos with coffee out there to be able to sit down for a Fika/coffee rbeak now and then to reflect.

In a few days time our village Garden center: Lövstabruks Trädgårdsmästeri opening up, can hardly wait

Today I wen't to Fredriksson's Plant in Östhammar to pick up my Apple tree "Signe Tillisch", a old Danish kind which I love in Apple Pies, and can be used far into the fall.

Well, I don't have a car, or drivers license for that matter. 4 meter tall Signe and I had to take the bus back home to Lövstabruk. But now she's home :D

I have started to work with my half shadow flowerbed north side of my barn. It's in shadow between 13:00 & 16:00 in the part I worked now.

First down is the Park Rhododendron Yakushimanum "Fantastica", 2x Bugle Ajuga Reptans/Revsuga & a Day Lily/Daglilja "Joan Senior".

More to come....

On the same north side of the barn, but with 80% shadow I plant Ferns and others along the wall

 The one above have no name, the one below is the stunning Dryopleris Affinis Fern

I also finished the preparations for the north bed in my "Formal" garden

It was hard work, a lot of slag stone/slaggsten and roots from the Snowberry/Snöbär bush, but worth it, the soil is amazing. When I can afford it I will buy a metal edge to put towards the hedge.

In the corner did I put a Japanese Cherry bush that I rooted myself. To give it a break from the Snowberry did I put it in a deep large bottomless plastic pot. We'll see if it survive!

In front of it is a large bowlshaped planter which i will make in to a water feature later,

And in the other end of the garden have the fight against the Nettle forrest/Brännässleskog begun.

There will be a path in the middle to the woodland, the Tarpaulins/Presenningar will be there 1-2 years, not pretty, but a must.

I Loooove when the garden get mixed up with the nature like the edges of the Snowberry bushes at the entrance

The beautiful White forrest Anemone/Vitsippa coming in uninvited, but oh so welcome!

Other progress in my garden just now:

My Climbing Hydrangea/Klätterhortensia already react quickly a few days after coming in the soil

 These fantastic Narcissus actually coming from IKEA and one of those cheap pots with bulbs You can buy there.

 The Rhubarb I got from Evy (unknown kind) are so amazingly powerful and a joy to look at

 Inside have my seedlings of the Organic Cucumber "Picolino" F1 grown out of the 1st pot and now put in larger full size ones until the moving out 

I hope You all have a great time wherever You are!

Don't forget to see the beauty that surround us, small or large!

"Aspectus Forma"

Sincerely, Per!