Show Auricula 'Fred Booley'

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So he decided to pay me a visit this year as well. He sure looks ravishing...eye-catching as always.  I’m so delighted to see that he is in such a good health. I mean, the winter was extremely hard-hitting for all the little auriculas.

Fred is an Englishman and he came from Drointon’s a few years ago.

You can get both the garden auriculas as well as the show auriculas delivered from  Drointon’s (UK). In Sweden you have Ray’s Perennials that you can buy them from. I would love to go and visit Ray (also an Englishman) but I don’t know if I dare to, it is going to be sooo costly. Although, I could take my Mini, then at least I have a very limited space to fill with plants.

Fred after a shower

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TYRA

Auricula - in floribus

This post 'Auricula- 'in floribus' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius-Lindhe in the blog Tyras Trädgård/ Tyra's Garden

Today's Flower - Auricula

 My pretty Auriculas are all 'in floribus' now. Some of them didn't survive our though winter unfortunately. But this one did, isn’t pretty?

Here is an other one...

The Grand Final of May - A Firework in Purple

This post 'The Grand Final of May - A Firework in Purple' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden

MAY - My favourite month of the year has now come to an end. I'm saddened by the thought, but to cheer me up my garden celebrate with a grand final - A firework in purple. Lilacs Syringa vulgaris, Alium, Pansy Violets Viola ×wittrockiana all in purple. The month of May has been really good this year, the weather has been mild and beautiful. If I should complain about something - it has been dry, extremely dry and that means that it takes a lot of time to do the watering each morning. Watering is something I wish someone above could help me with, but naaa, not this month.

Decorative Aliums in my potager, they actually do look like a firework. I grow a lot of Chives Allium schoenoprasum  as well in my potager and those flowers are so pretty and delicious! Have you tasted them?

Another pretty and edible flower is the pansy.

This is a small variety of Viola ×wittrockiana. I bought them in April and they are still looking amazingly good. 

You can imagine the marvellous fragrance in the evenings! I often take a late evening walk around they garden, my daily hunt for slugs and snails that are trespassing. I believe in biodiversity but I must admit I do have a war with the Spanish slug*

Good bye dear May!

Tomorrow we say Hello to the first month of summer.

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*"The Spanish slug, scientific name Arion vulgaris, more commonly known in English-speaking countries under the incorrectly applied Latin name, Arion lusitanicus, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs." wikipedia

Viola nigra 'Bowles Black'

This post Viola nigra 'Black Bowles' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius-Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden

Black Violets

'Bowles Black'

We celebrate Mother's Day here in Sweden today and what could be better for this occation than violets.

This delightful little gem is called 'Bowles Black' isn't just wonderful. Heavenly dark blue like a night sky and almost velvetly smooth petals. I bet they will looks stunning as a cake decoration or floating in one cool summer drink. Last year I scattered out some seeds and violá...here they are in my potager.

By the way...Who is Bowles?

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Happy Faces of May

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Today's Pictures - Happy Faces of May.


Viola

This is the time of year my garden luxuriate with pansies. I have them everywhere, I have my "happy faces" in the greenhouse as well as in the potager. I think this one is stunning, very spectacular, almost gross.

After an amazing and truely enchanting April I must say that May has started really bad, for the season, it is frightfully cold. But I'm glad to say that they predict better weather for the coming weekend. Let's hope so!

...and now to a less "vulgar" Viola, a very sofisticated lady in black.

Viola nigra 'Bowles black'



 

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Tyra

Flower of the month of May - Tulipa

Botanical Tulips vs. Hybrids

Tulips in bloom, what a joy!

Most of my tulips are botanical tulips I find them so very attractive, small and pretty, perhaps not as 'fancy' as the tall hybrid cultivars but they are just the way I like them. Another positive thing about the species tulips are that they are early, most of the hybridized are in bloom much later and then after they flowered I have to look at those dull sad looking leaves half the summer. 

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Mosaic Monday

Botaniska tulpaner är verkligen mina favoriter, små, söta och framför allt tidiga. Varje år planterar jag fler för att jag tycker så mycket om dom. Tulipa greigii, Persian Pearl, Chopin och allt vad de heter. Jag tycker att rådjuren är inte lika heta på de botaniska tulpanerna som på hybriderna, vad tycker du? Har du märkt någon skillnad? 

TYRA