My Melancoly November

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My Melancoly November

Weather-wise, we have enjoyed a very mild start of November here, no temperatures below zero (C) and no storms! Very pleasant indeed, although rather foggy at times and that makes it melancholy. I rather like it, the silence and all the different shades of grey. The last rose of the growing season 2011 disrupt the pattern with it’s bright pink colour.

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Mosaic Monday My Melancoly November - Today's Flower - My Last Rose

The Four Seasons in Tyra's Garden - Winter, Spring , Summer or Fall

This post - The Four Seasons of Tyra's Garden - Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden

Winter, spring , summer or fall,

All you have to do is call

And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Words from James Taylor's classic song  You got a friend

Four Seasons

 Spring - Open the door and let the sun shine in and warm body and soul.

Summer - The Kitchen Garden "in floribus"

Fall - Golden leaves brightens up my garden. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"

 very true indeed.

Winter - Time to rest, plan and dream.

It is Blooming Friday again! This weeks theme Four pictures - Four Seasons

Fragrant and Tasty

This post 'Fragrant and Tasty' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallséníus-Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden

 October in the Greenhouse

Lavandula augustifolia  &  Sambucus nigra 

Geraniums, Elberberries, Winters quashes and Lavender

 The growing season for 2010 is almost over and I've cleaned out the greenhouse. Gone are all the tomatoes and most of the chilies too. I have dug up some parsley, tarragon and chives and planted them in pots and brought them into the greenhouse so I can enjoy them a bit longer. Today I harvested the last of the Lavender Lavandula augustifolia and I haven't ever seen them so bright in the colour. If you like the Elderberries Sambucus nigra now it’s a good time to pick them just as the frost has arrived and before the birds eat them. I’m actually going to give them to the birds this year but I'll give my Elderberry harvest to the birds I have outside my kitchen window, then I can watch them eat and that is always enjoyable.

Don't be a stranger my friend I would just love to hear from you!

 Tyra

Harvest Monday at dear Daphne's place Daphne's Dandelions  &

Mosaic Monday Amen for Autumn visit Mary and enjoy other mosaics.

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Miss Emilie's Opal Plum Pie

This post 'Miss Emilie's Opal Plum Pie' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyras Garden

Now I so wish you could taste this!

Miss Emilie's plum and almond pie, it is so delicious. The thin crispy pie shell merges together with from the plum slightly moist layer of coarse almond paste and then on the top the lovely sugar powdered Opal plums. It is beautiful to look at and absolutely scrumptious, sweet in taste and yet still a bit tangy from the Opal fruit.  

October flowers and food.

 - Echinacea with a butterfly friend, my red Morton's basil,

Opal plum fruit and  Miss Emilie's plum & almond tart.

Opal is a Swedish self-fertile plumtree, a successful cross of a french and an english plum. This sure is one of my favourites. Beautiful and tasty, it is a really nice cooking plum too, perfect for marmalades and chutneys.

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 This is what Ashridge trees says about the Opal plum tree.

"Opal plums are sweet, bite-sized dessert plums that range in colour from bright yellow to deep purple, on the same tree and often on the same fruit. They have pale yellow flesh with a characteristic Greengage flavour. Opal plums are early fruiters in a good year you can start picking the first fruit at the end of July. Because they are so early, Opal plums ripen rapidly and so do better in the South of England; they also reward being planted in a south facing spot - trained against a south facing wall or ina warm corner is perfect.

Opal's History and Parentage

Opal is one of the creations of the Horticultural Research Stations in Alnarp and Balsgard in Sweden. It was produced from a cross between two classic plum trees, Early Favourite and Oullins Gage, which are respectively tough English and tasty French varieties.

Plum Tree Pollination guide for Opal Prunus domestica

Opal plum trees are truly self-fertile, which means no pollination partner is needed. It really is a good plum as it crops steadily each year." read further at  Ashridge trees 

Tyra

Meet Dear John.

節氣 Quifen

We are now on the 23th of September entering the Quifen, the autumnal equinox is here and the summer of 2010 is gone, the days are getting shorter and shorter by the day. The leaves colors are starting to fade and soon they will fall. In the garden this morning I met my friend John, he is a Canadian, I took some picture for you so you can meet my darling John Davis the Explorer Rose from Canada. A little bit wet and cold but he looks like he is enjoying the September days, the last days of summer.



Thank you Canada for giving us these hardy Explorer Roses!



Visst är han grann min John Davis, han är faktiskt snyggast så här års. Han gillar september och det brukar jag också göra men i år har den varit dötrist tycker jag. Är du intresserad av härdiga rosor eller rosor i huvudtaget så kan jag rekommendera en tur till Söderfors, där ligger Trädgårn' och dom är riktigt duktiga på rosor.

Queen of Light - Autumn song

...for this is the turning of the year,

the final scene before the curtain falls.

Autumn song - Epilogue

Today I've had a song in my head it was the Autumn song by Magna Carta from the Seasons album. This is an album I often listen to even though it is very old, it must be from the late sixtees.

Well, it is now the last days of September and the Autumn song- the Epilogue of my garden begins. This Rose is called Lichtkönigin 'Lucia' which means the queen of the light and she is certainly the brightest of all flower in my garden now. Planted in 2007 and she has been fantastic the whole season.

And she is fragrant as well! A scent of lemon and apple.

Lichtkönigin 'Lucia' in Tyra's Garden

LICHTKÖNIGIN LUCIA
(Kordes 1966).

En av de bästa gula buskrosorna och mycket eftersökt. Blommar rikligt och bildar en välformad buske med talrika, stora, siennafärgade knoppar som slår ut till fyllda, gyllengula blommor. Utmärkt på spaljé, pelare och husvägg. Frisk doft av citron och äpple. Namnet betyder 'Ljusdrottningen Lucia' på tyska. Storlek: 2.0x3.0m. Zon IV.

Här kan du hitta Lichtkönigin Lucia. Flora Linnea.

Happy gardening - Don't be a stranger! Do write something...

Det är så trevligt om du skriver en rad, det uppskattas verkligen./ TYRA

Emma Karp Lundström - An Apple Artist

Apple painting from 2006 – ‘Äppel, päppel, pirum parum’. (nursery rhyme)

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Garden Designer, coach and apple artist Emma Karp Lundström

Artist, project managers, stress consultant and garden creator - After many years, Emma Karp Lundström moved back to Gislöv. Based on the family farm she now wants to strengthen the image of Österlen as one of Sweden's most beautiful ‘gardens’. For several years she makes the annual Apple Painting in Kivik, and last year she initiated the project, Österlen lights, which got the district to bubble with energy and the sparkle in late autumn.

WORLD'S LARGEST APPLE PICTURE/PAINTING 104 sq.meters

With 70 000 nails, 30 000 apples, 10-12 apple varieties Emma and her team of 8 workers/assemblers creats a stunning over 100 sq.m. big apple painting which has a lifetime of 4 weeks.

For five days each autumn Emma Karp Lundström along with a team of apple workers creates the annual apple painting in Kivik. Early Monday morning, the workers, warmly dressed, with thermoses and really heavy working gloves arrives. In sun, hard wind, rainfall, or cold weather, the workers chooses, loads, composes with apples and assembles or 'paint' the world's largest apple painting. On the Friday afternoon is ready. One painting -30 000 apples! Ready for the grand opening of the annual famous Kiviks Market that commence on the Saturday morning.

It was in the spring as Emma saw the amazing painting, many hundreds of years old, plentiful and so full of life. She was inspired, thinking and thinking again how to make it possible as an apple construction. Here you can see the result, in the port of Kivik.

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An Apple installation at the Hallwyl House

Hallwyl House at No 4 Hamngatan was built between 1893 - 98 to designs by Isak Gustaf Clason (1856-1930), Sweden´s most renowned architect at the time.

The 'apple painting' in Stockholm

The painting remained until the end of October. Here it is ready, the apple painting on Hallwylska palace, so hurry there that you could not see it in Kivik.

All picture are Emmas.

Thank you for letting me borrow them and show the world what a brilliant woman you are.

More Apples at Blomingwriter with the wonderful post by Jodi DeLong

How'd you like them apples ?

TYRA

Brideshead Revisited

The girls and I are going up the country to Åkerby and spend the weekend together. We are going to have a DVD marathon weekend and this is what's on the meny. Long walks, good slow cooked autumn food, red wine and...

Brideshead Revisited - not the film, no, no, no.

659 minutes of

Brideshead Revisited the British television serial ( 1981) based on the novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh.

It stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder, Anthony Andrews as Lord Sebastian Flyte, Laurence Olivier as Lord Marchmain, Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain, Diana Quick as Lady Julia Flyte, and Jane Asher as Lady Celia Ryder; also featuring Phoebe Nicholls as Lady Cordelia Flyte, John Gielgud as Edward Ryder, Simon Jones as Lord Brideshead, Nickolas Grace as Anthony Blanche, Stéphane Audran as Cara, Lord Marchmain's lover, and Charles Keating as Rex Mottram, yes that was a lot of favorites.

En hel helg med bara tjejerna och jag. En riktigt 'maratonsepåserie' weekend, en massa god mat och någon gott att dricka. Det skall bli spännande att se om den gamla serien håller, den var ju fantastisk då 1981... Sedan kan vi ta och se den nya filmen 'En förlorad värld' och jämnföra.

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Have a great weekend all of you!

LOL Tyra

TODAY I'M FILTHY RICH...

NOT!

Gold, gold, everywhere and I got it for free! When I was a small girl we call the leaves golden coins. Sometimes I still think of them as gold coins consequently you can imagine that at this time of the year I'm really filthy rich :-)

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Today was the day of the colour Ochre in my garden. Ochre or Ocher (pronounced /'əʊ.kə(r)/, from the Greek ὠχρός, yellow) is a color, usually described as golden-yellow or light yellow brown. Wikipedia

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Morning of the golden day.

But will come a tomorrow....When I have to pic them all up!

........but the worns want to have a fair share. Thank God!

TYRA

Take a peek in the greenhouse 'Pure Joy'

Recycled piece of furniture.

GARDEN FURNITURE

I went to an outdoor auction in the countryside last weekend and look what a found. A pedestal for my greenhouse isn’t it just perfect. Old, worn and a bit shabby but nice, just the way I want it to be. It will be great for the greenhouse and the garden. All my pieces of furniture in the greenhouse are real bargains, they are old and worn, now I have been missing a pedestal and there it was…for 40 kronor (7 dollar). Recycle more!

Have a great day!

The greenhouse Pure Joy

- Ha en fin dag, hoppas att det blir ännu en fin höstdag. Det är riktiga guldagar vi har haft i oktober tycker jag och det behöver vi för snart går vi in i det stora mörkret!

TYRA

RED

Falu red or in Swedish we call it Faluröd is the name of the beautiful Swedish, deep red paint well known for its use on wooden cottages and barns. The paint originated from Falun in Dalarna ( copper mine) , Sweden. The traditional colour remains popular today due to it's effectiveness in preserving wood it is absolutely fantastic. Easy to paint and it doesn't smell.

The earliest evidence of its use dates from the 16th century. During the 17th century Falu red was commonly used on smaller wooden mansions, where it was intended to imitate buildings with brick facing. Except in bigger cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg, and in the extreme south of Sweden, wood was the dominating building material. In the Swedish cities and towns, buildings were often painted with the Falu red until the early 19th century, when the authorities began to oppose the paint. At this point in time more and more wooden buildings in urban areas were either painted in lighter colours (e.g. yellow, white) or sided with stucco. The number of buildings made of bricks (with stucco) also increased. However the Falu red saw a surge in popularity in the countryside during the 19th century, when also poorer farmers and crofters began to paint their houses. Falu red is still widely used in the Swedish countryside.
The actual colour may be different depending on how much the oxide is burnt, ranging from almost black to a bright, light red. Different tones of red have been popular at different times. Recently a mix giving a dark green colour, Falu Grön, has also been produced by mixing black and ochre.

The last fading beauty - Rose against the red wall on my cottage in Åkerby Village in the north of Uppland.

The paint consists of water, rye flour, linseed oil and residue from the copper mines of Falun which contain silicates iron oxides, copper compounds and zinc. The current recipe was finalized in the 1920s.

Pictures from the small village called Åkerby, this is where I am now when I'm writing this post. Åkerby bruk founded 1638

TYRA

Always look at the bright side of life!

You have to really take notice of all the beautiful thing that's surrounds us, pleasure and treasure it, especially in these harsh economic times. It's easy to get depressed but I say like The Monty Pythons once said

- Always look at the bright side of life!My greenhouse in October.The last of the year... Sweet Pea Lathyrus odoratus

and the last blackberries


Don' forget that you can pick the Rose hips, they are free. It's a power food, particularly high in Vitamin C, with about 1700–2000 mg per 100 g in the dried product.
Forsythia
My potager - There are a few veggies left, I usually leave some for the wild animals to feast on during the winter.

Do have a nice day...despite :-)

TYRA

MISTY

I just want to show you this beautiful October morning.

I haven't got many garden ornament but here are a few, the sundail, the crown and my gazebo :-)

När jag vaknade i morse låg det fortfarande dimmor nere på ängen nedanför min trädgård. Tänk att jag älskar verkligen min trädgård på morgonen, jag vet inte riktigt varför men det är nog lugnet och den friska luften. Här är några bilder tagna just igår då det var en sådan där förtrollad morgon.

When I woke this morning it was still mists down on the meadow below my garden. I say ones again I really love my garden in the morning, I do not really know why but it is enough serenity and the fresh air. After breakfast I went for a walk in the garden with my camera. Spider’s web, drops of dew, the autumn colours, the rust on my iron crown and on the old sundial that’s the art of nature that catches my eye. One the other side of the meadow I can see down to the lake, it looks very calm and cold. The colours and structure of the water is soft and mild.

The Gazebo a very old 'jewel' in our garden

The greenhouse in the mist.

Have a nice week /LOL Tyra