• spring,  travel

    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…

  • greenhouse,  My Garden,  spring

    Winter Backlash

    Despite some snowdrops and crocus flowering there is still a lot of snow and right now it’s even snowing a bit more. It’s awful, I’m really longing for spring. I’m consoling myself with some of my small seedlings and a few flowering things in the greenhouse. Siitä huolimatta että ensimmäiset lumikellot ja krookukset jo kukkivat, lunta riittää vielä runsaasti ja lisää vaikuttaa tulevan. Se tuntuu aika hirveältä, minulla on kunnon kevätkaipuu päällä. Lohdutan itseäni kasvihuoneen pikkutaimilla ja niillä muutamalla siellä kukkivalla kasvilla. Trots att de första snödropparna och krokusarna redan blommar ligger det mycket snö kvar och mer verkar det ännu komma. Det känns ganska hemskt, jag har en förskräcklig…