Showing posts with label Marigold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marigold. Show all posts

Aug 13, 2014

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!

Aug 11, 2014

Garden Catch Up 2/4

Hi again!
Today it's the second catch up of photos from the 2 last weeks in my garden!
Feel free to ask questions in the comment field!

Enjoy, Per!

Some Mini Pelargoniums (or forced to be); Unknown, "Friesdorf" & "Mårbacka"
The rounded pots did I buy handmade on the island of Lipari next to Stromboli in Italy, the round pot is a outer pot/water reservoir with a insert of a Terracotta pot with blue glazed rim. They come in all sizes & colours, these are the smallest. I'm thinking of importing them.
Day Lily "Joan Senior" & my blue "Inner Garden" flower beds
My "Bornholm" Pelargonium start to get it's first Roselike flowers
The delicate bluish Pelargonium "Quinquelobatum" & "Spleenwort"/"Svartbräken"
The hanging Fuchsia "Pink Marshmallow"
Sunflower "Ruby F1"
The Tomatoe & Chili wall
My baby blue Salvia "Uliginosa" have it's first flowers and are now a meter high, a long way to go to the 3'ish meter it can be.
Unknown Pelargonium and my Finish "Rauhala" Cherry tree. After trimming off all the weak side branches only keeping one, bending it upwards with support, it turned really nice and have been growing a extra meter with nice new side branches :D
"Agapanthus"/"Afrikas Blå Lilja"
The corner of the Blue innergarden with a little water feature & my Bronze statue from Chennai-India
Pelargonium "Appleblossom Rosebud"
Red Onion flower
Marigold/Ringblomma "Bronzed Beauty"

I end todays Catch Up with a unknown kund of Hollyhock/Stockros that according to the garden center is Burgundy, but I can live with this colour as well ;)
Have a great day, Per!

Mar 22, 2014

Ilse Krohn in her new home & the Forrest floor filling up with beauty

When I moved in to my new home and garden in the late fall last year did I do some good deals at the garden centers closing down for the season.

I did fall in love with the climbing rose Ilse Krohn, even if Zone IV where I live could be a challenge. I decided to put her against the beautiful stonewall to the food cellar, south facing, there she would get warmth, also stored in the stones and be protected from the north winds.

I put her down in the soil temporarily last fall and today I put her in the final flower bed with wooden frame, open in the bottom with a deeper soilfilled hole under. Next to it I probably plant some Thyme, but not sure yet.
I took the opportunity to weed and clean out the whole flowerbed next to the food cellar wall.
When I moved in last fall was this part totally neglected and the rest a gravelled parking lot, the grass You see is moved here from other new flower beds (see October in my Blog) and the rocks found in the soil and put where the water comes from the roof tiles during rains.

I have a few pots with spring bulbs (Grape Hyacinths & Narcissus) around my entrance,......
..., but now I need those pots for other plants so I put all the bulbs in the new flowerbed where they would end up anyway. I will fill this bed with bulbs for next spring :D

This flowerbed, very visible from the entrance will be for the spring bulbs, but also for a lot of summer flowers that can be changed every year.
This is the flower combination for this year:
Sunflower "Ruby F1", Summer Rudbeckia "Cherry Brandy", Marigold "Bronzed Beauty" & Spice Tagethes "Tangerine Dream".
I think this combination will look great towards the stonewall.


I took a break in the gardening to go to the English park in the village to pick some Ramson/Ramslök for lunch.
The snow is gone in the park and all the Ramson makes the forrest floor greener by the day!
This small tiny flower and leaves of the Butterbur/Pestskråp will grow rapidly and tower over all the Ramson after they had their glory.
But for now the Ramson is the star, here with the village Manor House in the background

I took a little de-tour home in the fantastic spring weather to check out how far the forrest flowers has come!
Here the simply beautiful Coltsfoot/Tussilago-Hästhov
And the delicate Blue Anemone Hepatica/Blåsippa which cover larger areas of the forrest floor, pre-cedor to the as beautiful white version.

The Ramson/Ramslök was put in a Omelett made by local Eggs from Roslagen and Cheese made on the nearby Island of Åland!
Bon Apetite, Per!