Rising Borlotto Beans and Water levels

It was a little bit cold today and after I've been to the ususal farmers auction in the village did I do some indoor photography.

I had put some Borlotto Beans from Gourmet Garage in Pots to come ahead in the growth outside. They have started to sprout.

The stylish growth procedure fascinates me:

I'm happy with the result and made it to a Logo for this blog and are going to use it for my website as well

After four more or less rainy days have the waterlevels rised and it is dry no more.

At the end of my property have the wetland got back it's water, I suspect I will call this the Mosquito Coast when it gets warm next!

 Here grows Waterlilies and other natural waterplants.

As I wrote before, the area in front of it is covered with Nettles and Thistles, over a meter high when I came here. 

I covered large areas with Tarpaulin/Presenning and so it will be for one-two years before I plant something here.

I put earth covers down in the middle for isle and put grass turf over it.

 On the edge towards the water did I put down a Weaping Willow/Hängpil today

One of the "Half-Shadow" flowerbeds behind the barn is ready for now

I put a isle of rocks between the two large beds for easy access.

The rocks coming from all the digging of the new hedges

In this part do I have two different kinds of Rhododenron; "Grandiflora Alpenrose" &  Yakushimanun "Fantastica".

Besides that a small Birch Dalecarlia/Ornäsbjörk, Daylilies ("Joan Senior", "Happy Return" & "Mauna Loa"), Toad Lily "Blue Wonder, Blue Bugle/Revsuga, Bergenia and other.

In the lowest part of the garden where it's usually most moist did I make a Iris flowerbed with a braided Danish Willow and a smaller Dalecarlia Birch/Ornäsbjörk (that got beaten up at the last frost).

There is space to the left in case I hopefully need to make it larger.

The Iris there just now are; "Gusto", "Double Standard", "Concord Cruch", "Gulls Wing", "Ruffled Velvet" & "Dance Ballerina"

Even if the weather have been cold the last week is the sensitive Zon 3 rose "Ilse Krohn" thriving against the south rock wall of the barn, so well that I dared to put a Lavendel there as well

The spring is loooooong this year, love it!

The Narcisssus still looking great and smells fantastic

Some of the Grape Hyacinths start to get brown from below

And some of them look fantastic, still

Even if it's raining, there is so much beauty around, some of it just then

Warmest Regards, Per!

Cow Manure & Ramson Cod Soup, both very good but not together!

After a few days of drizzly very much needed rain is it great garden weather again!

The other day my village gardenfriend Evy and I went to get Cow Manure! 10 50kg's should be enough for my garden just now.

 I put it in all the Pallet collars, both for Veggies and Flowers plus some where I want to kickstart new growth of the Snowberry hedges at the entrance.

This is October last year when I moved in!

The area around the wet areas where totally neglected and the Nettles where superhigh.

 This is how it looks now, a fantastic untouched Deciduous forest/Lövskog with a rich birdlife.

To the far right I want to create a seating area, as well under the big tree to the left where I now feed the birds.

 The ground just now: Nettles (as well as Thistles & Ground Elder/Kirskål), food for some, but far too much of it for me.

I decided to keep big parts of it covered with Tarpaulin/Presenning the next couple of years to kill it off naturally.

I kept a open alley in the middle where I will have a path later to access the wet areas.

 This is how it looks from the new seating area.

People that know me know that one or two Fika breaks is a part of my gardening pleasure, so today when the sun was shining

My favorite Mug made by Susanne Thurfjell here in the village :D

This photo is taken from the other side of the stream and road. Here did the people have veggies and fruit fields in the old days, and I discovered a lot of Rhubarb plants and two large Black Currant bushes.

I have already re-covered the Rhubarbs, and today I took care of the rest.

 I did not only re-cover Black Currants today, I also digged up one neglected one on the border to my neighbor. Here I instead will plant a mixed hedge (Lilacs, Hansa Roses,..) to protect the Veggies paths from the cold Northeast winds.

 Happy discovery, the Rhubarbs I got from Evy and planted in the fall start to show it's beauty :D

 Another happy discovery, it  grows a lot of White Forrest Anemone/Vitsippa by the hedge at my entrance. As well as we like it at our cottage, I love it here as well :D

Inside my house up in the flower room does the Amaryllis come up for the season. I have been buying ready bulbs for Christmas and also bulbs in Amsterdam. When bloomed out I have put them in a pile in a wide pot and kept them outside in the summers, now they have a normal flowering season, not Christmas :D

 I took seeds from one of them last year, put them in soil a month ago and now I have a small Amaryllis leaf coming up :D

 Soon time to put this Danish braided Willow/Pil in the soil.

 My little Maple tree is still alive, as well as the Maple seeds I put in the pot

Since we have A LOT of Ramson/Ramslök did I include it in tonights dinner, a soup/stew with:

Ramson, Cod, Potatoes, Broccoli, Chili, Ginger, Selleri, Saffron & Crème Fraiche

Bon Apetite, Per!