Showing posts with label Primula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primula. Show all posts

May 3, 2014

Perennial Flowers at our cottage by the Baltic Sea

Today I went to our cottage at Kopphuslandet in Northern Uppland close to the Baltic by the river Dalälven!
I wen't there to see my parents for coffee and also get cuttings from our Lilac hedge to take to my house in Lövstabruk.

On the seaside it's really hard to get flowers growing so my mother usually have flowers in pots here, but on the west side does she have my favorite perennial flower beds! Here I have been taking a lot of photos through the years
 A lot of old style cottage flowers in abundance along the wall and around the rock. Along the mixed hedge (Lilacs/Syrén & Bird Cherry/Hägg) do we have flowers from the nature; Anemone, Lily of the Valley, Primroses, Snowdrops,....

Here is my favorite Tarda Tulip/Flocktulpan that I also planted at my house as You saw in yesterdays blog

A white Fritillaria Meleagris/Kungsängslilja
And the same but with the regular checkerboard pattern

Lupines on their way

Stunning Primula from seeds my mother put here for many years ago and some Peonies/Pioner with intense red colour before they turn green.

A flower I want in my garden as well is the Martagon/Krollilja, love this powerful flower standing over everything, for now it's just growing but beautiful anyway.

A Bergenia with the first flowers


Later we wen't to my parents place for dinner and there it is a smaller forrest of Birches/Björkar I just love.
Specially to follow the season through them, just now with bright green small leaves
Have a great weekend!
Wishes, Per!

Apr 1, 2014

Early spring in Uppsala Botanical Garden

Today I went to visit a near family member in the Academic Hospital in my region capital Uppsala!

I had a couple of spare hours and my camera ready to explore the early spring progress in the city's fantastic Uppsala Botanical Garden!

The garden was founded 1655 by Professor Olov Rudbeck (Rudbeckia-Echinacea) for his students to study Botany and Pharmacy.
At 1741 Professor Carl Linneaus (later Carl von Linne & founder of the latin system) was in charge of the garden and after him Carl Peter Thunberg.
You can feel the history walking around these gardens.

Please enjoy them with me:

The Botanical Gardens spreading out below Uppsala Castle that was constructed by King Gustav Wasa and his sons at 1549

Rhubarbs Rheum Altaicum
Euonymus Nanis-Småbladig Bergbenved
Grape Hyacinth-Pärlhyacint
Snow drops-Snödroppar
Paeonia Suffruticosa-Pion
 I love these small cement container landscapes placed here and there in one area of the garden
 Forsythia
 I Love this Japanese Lantern
 Primula Elatior-Lundviva
Picea Abies Pine-Gran from Uppland, I love these hanging branches
 Polystichum Setuferum-Spetsbräken
Omphalodes Verna-Ormöga
Paeonia Japonica-Japansk Pion
Pulmonaria Rubra-Röd Lungört
 Pulmonaria Officinalis-Fläcklungört
Beautiful Trilium
Exciting Phodophyllum Versipelle
Helleborus Purpurascens-Purpurjulros
Pulmonaria Saccharata "Mrs Moon"-Broklungört Mrs Moon
Anemonopsis Macrophylla-Porslinsanemon
It's bursting everywhere :D
Beautiful Helleborus Orientalis-Turkisk Julros

I hope You enjoyed my early spring report, more will come during the season.
Tomorrow  will post my photos from the Orangerie in the garden
Have a great day, Per!