Category: gardening
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Spring is late this year up here in the north but it is slowly getting warmer. The lake by the summer cottage finally lost its ice cover yesterday. It was fun to watch the ice slowly drift away and clear water to emerge. Not many flowers bloom yet and not much to see but the…
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Yet another daffodil variety to the garden! I was so sure that I already had this one but it turned out that the one I have is a double version of this variety. Gold Medal (Narcissus ‘Gold Medal’) is a beautiful trumpet daffodil. I think that I have enough new daffodils for this spring and…
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Last year the summer had a long and hot dry period. My father’s Cunningham’s White (Rhododendron ’Cunningham’s White’) did not make it. We simply did not think that it was quite new plant and would have needed more watering and in the end it just dried out. Managed to find a new plant and will…
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We have had a beautiful Easter up here in the north. It is not too warm yet but the sun has shone the whole long weekend. The good weather got me to go to a store and do some shopping. The first Pansy (Viola) found its way to my balcony. Chose a bright orange one…
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It is slowly getting a bit warmer up here in the north. Days are already long but still few weeks before we can start gardening. Bought a new pot of Garden Grape-hyacinths (Muscari armeniacum) to the balcony and once they have bloomed they end up to the garden. Enjoy the Easter holidays!
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Spring is late this year up here in the north. We still have plenty of snow left and during the nighttime we go below the freezing point. Hopefully it starts to get warmer soon. It would be nice to start the gardening activities. Bought one more daffodil variety called Peaches and Cream (Narcissus ‘Peaches and…
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Lost one of my Christmas cactuses during the winter and decided to replace it with an Easter cactus (Hatiora gaertneri). Actually I bought two of them in different color but planted them in the same pot. It will be interesting to see how my trial turns out. Easter cactus is such a carefree flower to…
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Found one daffodil variety I do not yet have in the garden. Ice Wings (Narcissus ‘Ice Wings’) is a beautiful white variety. As a triandrus narcissus, it usually carries multiple flowers on every flowering stem. I am going to continue my hunt for more varieties but decided that three new ones is enough for this…
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It has been beautiful spring day up here in the north. Have spend it walking in the city center and enjoying a restaurant lunch now that the corona restrictions have been removed. We still have plenty of snow left and need to wait more than a month before being able to do anything in the…
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Because of the rapidly cooling nights I was forced to collect the bean harvest a bit earlier than I wished. They could have used two more weeks to ripe. Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco Nano (Phaseolus vulgar–is ‘Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco Nano’) is the other bean variety I tried this year for the first time. They…
Gardening in the North 