Gardening in the North
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Can it be too early to have Christmas flowers? Is it nearly the time? Or am I a bit ahead of the season this year? Once again I was weak and could not resist the temptation. This seems to happen to me too often. Saw the bulbs in a shop and ended up having winter’s…
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The nights have been cold and the temperature has gone below the freezing point several times. Nearly all the flowers are gone and nature is displaying autumn colors. The trees are starting to be bare from leaves and the lake has gotten a thin layer of ice on it in the mornings. Usually it is…
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Some of us are just tougher than the others and do not seem to care about the coolness. Having a balcony high up seems to have its benefits. When you look down to the ground in the morning you can see the whiteness of the frost but it does not reach up to the balcony.…
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Magnus came to my life a year and half ago. His roots are in North America. A friend who looks modest in the spring but who shows its beauty late in the autumn. We met by an accident. I was just spending an evening in the web when I noticed him. I knew immediately that…
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The first frost will come any day now. It has not yet shown itself but you can feel it in the air. It will wipe out the flowers still standing and make us wait seven long months before it will be warm enough for the first spring flowers to bloom. Our summers are short but…
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I do not know what it is with the lilies. It seems that I managed to buy many new varieties in the spring without even realizing what I was doing. I guess it is that they last several years and are easy to maintain. They come in so many different forms and colors. You simply…
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As long as I can remember my grandmother has always had tiger lilies. Orange ones under the window. Those lilies must have been there more than 60 years. In the same spot and blooming each year. She is now long gone but still some of the lilies grow each year reminding me of her and…
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It seems that I got a bit too exited in the spring. When I look into my balcony I just wonder how have I managed to squeeze all these plants in it. Now that everything has grown to full size it is a lot. Well it was a long winter, and a long wait. So…
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Now that I have found the sunflowers again I wanted to try a new color. The ones I have cultivate earlier have always been yellow. I ended up choosing a red variant called Ruby. The summer was cool so I did not expect much from my experiment but in the end it turned out that…
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I have always admired my mom’s cosmos flowers. She plants the seeds in the spring and collects them in the autumn. The seeds are originally from her dear old friend. Her cosmos grows quickly and blooms heavily with many different colors. The variety is quick to grow and is used to the short summers we…
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