Bring the Garden into Your Kitchen

This post Bring the Garden into Your Kitchen was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius-Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden 

Well the titel could easily be misunderstood it is a bit misleading. Now in January I haven’t got a lot to bring into the kitchen from my potager. Although I do have some lovely kale and leeks left that the dear deer hasn’t found yet.

 I just want to show you my new tea towels and pegs. I order these kitchen towels from SSE Seed Savers Exchange and they are from Paper Shark, Santa Barbara. 100% “flour-sack” cotton. I just love the prints, they put a smile on my face every time I use then. I think they will be perfect on the sailing boat as well because the dry so very quickly in the wind. Talking about wind...

The pegs are in an old fashioned style and I just love them too. Thank you Johan for this wonderful Christmas gift. I’m longing to start to dry my washing outdoors again. Nothing beats the “perfume” of fresh, clean washing dried by the wind.

Mauve Taupe

Magical Pale 'Mauve Taupe' Pinks

Pale pink sun trying to break through... but no. Beautiful icicles in pale pink hanging from the roof some of them are almost a metre long and some pale mauve pink tulips at the end.

"Mauve (pronounced /ˈmoʊv/ (British), rhymes with "grove"; from the French form of Malva 'mallow' is a pale lavender-lilac color, one of many in the range of purples. Mauve is more grey and more blue than a pale tint of magenta would be. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are actually mauve. Sometimes mauve can be considered a dirty pink or a shade of purple. Mauve can also be described as pale violet. Another name for this color is mallow. source: Wikipedia - Mauve

This last photo is an old photo from the winter of 2006, the frosty roses of ice on my greenhouse windows.

London my Metropolis

This post, 'London my Metropolis' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/
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I’m back from London, my favourite Metropolis.

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I didn’t know and I actually just found out that London was in fact called Metropolis during the Victorian era. During this much to short visit to London my only ambition tourist-wise was to visit the famous (Victorian) Highgate Cemetery and I will give you a post about this fantastic place in a post shortly.

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Today I’m going to show you some pictures from an old and absolutely wonderful store called Fortnum & Mason. They have a lot of stuff even some lovely things for the garden, to posh for my taste. This time I want to share some other hilarious bits and pieces with you or what do you think about this Coffee and Tea set.

Everything is expensive in this store but the quality is exquisite! Thank God that I just had a small suitcase otherwise I would have been ruined. Though I was able to squeeze in a few beautiful tins with delicious biscuits.

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This is my favourite department....the Confectionary department.

It is a feast for the eye to see all those lovely Chocolates - Cakes and Bisquits - Sweets - Marmalades & Preserves.

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more of those colourful Teatime stuff...

One of the days we were out walking for more than 14 hours! Of course we stopped for coffee, snacks & beer, lunch, coffee again and supper :-) but still... we were very glad to find this bench. Isn't it just beautiful? Very comfortable too, I loved it so much that I looked it up up and it is from Gaze Burvill in UK and it is called Court Seat (cute name)

I saved the best to the last, finally a flower. Wisteria

More from Highgate LONDON on friday...until then I wish you all a great week.

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Happy Gardening!

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LOLove / TYRA