Category: gardening
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Many and plenty! For some reason aquilegias have always been one of my favorites. Cannot have enough of them. This year I have managed to have five more varieties to bloom and I am happy. After several trials even Nora Barlow has started to bloom for the first time. The challenge is that I have…
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A newcomer to my flowerbed. I am surprised how easy it was to grow and even though the summer has been cold the flowers are doing well. I guess the name just suggested that it is for a warmer climate. They do though seem to have an ability to predict the weather. If it is…
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Beaten by the heavy summer rains but still blooming nicely. Baby blue eyes is very reliable and one of the early bloomers when it comes to the annuals. It seem that some of the seeds made it through the winter since I have flowers growing in places I did not expect. Simply adore the color…
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It sure has been a good year for rhododendrons up here in the north. Every plant is blooming. Have seen many wonderful pictures taken by many of my friends. My father’s apple of his eye – a violet rhododendron which he cares with devotion is also does its best. Last year went without any blooms…
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Snowballs are here again! The bush seems to be full of white flowers. Hope that the branches are able to take the extra weight brought in by the racemes. They have promised heavy summer rains and it might be too much to bear. I have been so happy this one bush that I decided to…
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Why orange? Siberian poppy comes in many colors – white, yellow, red. But for some reason only the orange ones are able to make it through the winter. Do not know why but now all the ones I have are orange. Only in the autumn the colors are many due to the seeds I have…
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The slowest ones of the tulips have made as well. Due to the cold weather the blooming season for the tulips has been exceptionally long this year. Normally the tulips are long gone by this time of the summer. Cool and whimsical weather just seems to continue. Today we have had beautiful sunshine, thunder, rain,…
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Flag tulips are doing well up here in the north. Planted a mix of them in the autumn and they seem to enjoy the shady place under an old apple tree. Must buy more of them in the autumn to make sure that we can enjoy them in the fourth coming spring. We are a…
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Erythronium tuolumnense is known by the common name Tuolumne dog’s tooth violet. Originally from California Sierra Nevada from the Tuolumne County. Not a native plant to this continent. I bought the bulb several years ago and ever since it has bloomed every spring. Tried to plant three more last autumn but failed. None of them…
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Time to harvest. After very many years my chive finally looks good. I do not know what went wrong but for many years the chives we have looked poor and modest. Maybe they just needed time and the right weather. I have tried many different varieties and to be honest not sure anymore which was…
Gardening in the North 