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!

Källmossa Gård, yet another beautiful Uppland experience

Yesterday my friends Evy & Susanne here in the village asked me if I wanted to come with them to Källmossa Gård (Farm) in Slada By to check out the new plants for sale there.

I have never been, but heard about it. It's situated near here in northern Uppland on the Hållnäs half island.

They producing free range eggs, honey and young plants for the garden.

And free range it is, the hens roaming around wherever they enjoy in a huge enclosure including a meadow.

Eggs from here are sold in my village and elsewhere, but also here is a small self-service Egg Shop

We found the owner Helena busy working in the greenhouse

And what a job she puts down in it, I have never seen such order and neatness in a smaller greenhouse like this

And even here it's self service, just put the money in the box, but I'm happy we met Helene anyway, she was great to talk with.

And my friends Evy and Susanne certainly filled that box :D

Such a great experience, and you have to be quick getting plants here, she has what she has, when all is sold she close the greenhouse for the season, but Eggs and Honey can still be bought.

Today May 1st I woke up to a brief white wonderland, I knew it was coming so it wasn't really a chock, and I have a lot of neglected job to do inside the house, plus planting seedlings in larger pots.

My Apple Blossom "Signe Tillisch" yesterday:

And today:

But now it's warm and sunny so the snow will be gone in hours.

Have a great May 1st!

Per!

Busy days and noisy neighbors in my garden

It has been amazing sunny days for over a week now and yesterday it was 20C in the shadow, and balmy in the sun. A pleasure to work in the garden wearing a T-shirt :D

This is also when eating and other normal things coming second, when one loose track of time in the garden, specially since it gets lighter and lighter here in Uppland, now the sun is up at 4:53, down 20:38, loooove it!

That also means that everything else is waking up early as well, this morning I heard a constant noise trhough my bedroom window which was intriguing

(remember I moved here in October, all this is new to me)

The sound came from the huge old Maple at my entrance that just started flowering, and it must have been millions of Bee's and Bumble Bee's, wonderful :D

Over the road and by my stream stand a old tree that my neighbors told me that Seagulls usually nesting in, and Oh Yeah they do, the noise from them when protecting the nests (2 of them) is incredible, but somewhat comforting for me coming from the Baltic coast growing up with this noise.

In my garden that had nothing, digging is the daily shore. But it's great to start see how my plan works to get some basic structure. Off course some changes in the plan are done now and then.

A small hedge of Raspberries "Preussen" are planted north of the veggie garden to somewhat protect from northern winds

 My plan is to have a straight line from the Apple tree Signe Tillisch to the house through the Veggie garden, with the Raspberrie hedge, then the Pallet collars to the left and it will be open beds to the right (just now only Black currants and Rhubarbs there). On the east I will plant a Blackcurrant hedge (saw one at my friend Evy's house here in the village and liked it).

In the "Formal" garden next to the house did I dig a 10 meter long flower bed the other day, a lot of Slag stone (the backside living in a old Ironworks village), and roots from the Snowberry hedge.

Here I will have mostly flowers attracting Bees & Bumble bees, that can take the constant sun here.

In the center of the square lawn did I plant a little Finnish Cherry tree: Rauhala

I changed my mind with the Pallet collars I put by the barnwall corner to protect from winds. My plan was to have Tomatoes, Chili and other plants in them because of the all day sun, BUT when it was raining a night a couple of weeks ago did I see that the water from the rooftiles went straight down in them, not good.

So I took away the long ones, and kept one. I planted a lovely little Lilac "Josée" that only will be 1,5 meter high, and are extremely fragant. Around the base did I pland Isops that I got from my friend Evy, they are called the Lavendel of north and suppose to be able to take our winters:

It will be fantastic to sit here with a cup of coffee

So what did I do with the left over pallet collars?

I re-digged the whole shadowbed by the house and extended it :D

My Magnolia "George Henry Kern" have it's first flower bud. It's in a pot, and I'm still debating with myself if I dare to plant it in the protected entrance garden, or keep it in a pot.

Oh well, I guess it will take a lot of Fika/coffee breaks pondering that, but now I'm off out in the garden again!

Have a Great Sunday, Per!