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Giverny
I visited Normandy last spring with some people from Blomsterodlingens vänner i Finland. BOVarna, for short, is a very nice gardening club that I’ve belonged to for several years. My mother is also a member and among the members I have several good friends and my best gardening friends for sure! We started out with Giverny, which I’d rather have dropped from the agenda, but some people who had not been there before wanted to see it, so we went there anyway. Don’t get me wrong, Giverny can be beautiful and Claude Monet’s paintings are for sure, it’s just that the garden is one of the worst tourist traps I…
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Summer Social
This past summer was very work filled and I only had time to take a little bit of time off. I wasn’t prepared to sacrifice hanging out with some of my friends that normally live abroad (Berlin, Istanbul, Mumbai and Shanghai, so not very conveniently close) so my time off was either spent with them or at a few crucial summer events.. Turns out you can’t cure a gardener, so a few of them had some garden related touches. In the first picture: Watering a swiss chard plant I had donated to a “Plant Tram” event that was arranged in August and September in Helsinki. At first the plants that…
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Rainy Days
Some years ago when we had horrible droughts, I swore I would never complain about rain. I’m not sure I made the distinction “during the summer”, but that was my intention. I didn’t complain about the rain this summer either, it was very nice to see everything grow with such vigor and I’m looking forward to some nice flowering next spring. For example the azaleas, the rhododendron and my magnolias all look like they have set a record amount of buds. So that is excellent, however, this autumn rain that we have had in the last weeks is getting a bit old. It is very wet and there are some…
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Forced Inside
It’s really raining too much for digging so I’m back inside again. It’s been a very busy summer and I had to take a break from blogging. The summer has been filled with gardening and I’ve seen a lot of gardens and flowers and as the fall goes on I imagine I’ll have time to share some pictures. I’ve been using Instagram so here is a sneak peek and a little collage of a few pictures. Most of my gardening pictures have the hashtag #aplantaday which no one else seems to be using right now. There are more pics in the new sliding sidebar on the left! In the first…
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Out in the Garden
I’m spending all my free time in the garden now that the evenings are so light so I’ve not really had time to blog. It’s funny, since there would be a lot to blog about! Well, there was a bit of rain, so I’ll have time to share a few pictures 🙂 Kaikki vapaa aikaa menee tällä hetkellä puutarhassa. Illat ovat niin valoisia, joten puutarhassa menee niin kauan, etten ole ehtinyt blogata. Se on hiukan hassua, koska nyt aiheita riittäisi! Pieni sadekuuro antaa nyt kuitenkin sen verran aikaa että ehdin näyttää pari kuvaa 🙂 All ledig tid går åt i trädgården för tillfället. Kvällarna är så ljusa att det går så…
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