• autumn,  summer

    A Future Sunset Part 1

    A few things, among them Scott with the blog Rhone Street Gardens have been inspiring me during this summer and given me the idea to start a ”sunset” border next year. I have a spot that gets the evening sun, where some rather ugly black currants grow right now, that really is in need of a makeover. Besides getting the evening light the idea would be to use orange, apricot and red flowered plants, maybe even with a little yellow which I usually avoid like the plague. I already have a lot of plants that could move there next year: some Miscanthus ‘Malepartus’, M. ‘Morning Light’ and a Miscanthus that…

  • Kitchen garden,  media,  photography,  summer

    Late Summer

    This picture is my entry to Gardening Gone Wild’s Picture This competition for this September. This is a link to the same picture that allows the picture to be saved. I had a hard time picking my entry, I like the picture above, I just wish it would be a bit better technically. Still the dahlias lined up in a fantastic way and the weather was co-operating, so I’m mostly pleased. The picture is a few years old and taken with my old camera. I’ve cropped it a bit and I’ve removed a small bug in Photoshop. It took a few tries to get the light right in the background…

  • Kitchen garden,  summer

    Gardening for Food

    Before this becomes a clematis blog, I’ll get back to one of my favorites types of gardening, i.e. kitchen gardening. On one hand, this is my favorite time of the year: you can harvest the best food – the food that you’ve grown yourself. The other day I got inspired by a trip to a restaurant. I therefore decided to put my more than generous crop of tomatoes to good use. I used all the tomatoes in that first picture and some more, all the vegetables, two onions, some Jerusalem artichokes, red wine, a little chili pepper and some deer that my dad had hunted and made a stew. It…