Gardening in the North
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Time to relax a bit and enjoy life. Planning to visit my parents and spent some time with them next weekend. Here in the north it is still too early to plant anything but Easter is anyway a good excuse to buy few flowers. Managed to find a beautiful pot of daffodils from a flower…
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It is still one month before the first spring flowers start to bloom up here in the north. So in my search for spring I ended up booking a holiday trip to Amsterdam where the flowers are just starting their colorful show. When walking around the city I bought Pleione bulbs as a gift to…
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Past few days have been stunningly beautiful in the north. Sun is shining and snow reflects the rays. Best time of the winter. We still have two more months to go before the first spring flowers start to bloom. Cannot wait that long anymore. So during my Sunday walk I ended up buying hyacinths. Just…
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I do not know why I keep on buying them. I enjoy their beauty only few months and then they are gone. But what flowers and colors they have. I have never managed to keep an orchid alive after it has bloomed. I guess the central heating and lack of light is just too much…
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One of my mom’s favorite flowers is cosmos. Originally she got the seeds from an old and a dear friend of hers. After that we have had them blooming every year. They have never failed her no matter what kind of summer we have had. The colors of cosmos are many and also I have…
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Some of us are just so easy and thankful. My Christmas cactus lives in the darkest corner of my flat. Neglected and without any attention or care. Just a drop of water every once and awhile. Still each year just before the Christmas it starts to blossom reminding me about the coming holiday season. I…
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