• events,  summer

    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…

  • autumn,  Kitchen garden,  My Garden,  summer

    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…

  • autumn,  My Garden,  photography,  spring,  stonescaping,  summer

    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…