Happy Halloween - Farewell to Gorgeous October

This post "Happy Halloween - Farewell to Gorgeous October" was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog Tyras Trädgård/Tyras Garden

This must have been the best fall ever! 

The weather has been extraordinary wonderful. Sunny days and MILD temperatures, now that’s the way I like it. Jack Frost has not shown his face yet and I wish he could stay away from my part of the world a bit more, as the winter here is much to long and dark..."We do not need to freeze our but off too, yet, Jack!" ;-)

 I can still harvest from my kitchen garden and I do have some flowers that are still in bloom. What more can a garden-girl wish for.

I wish you all a wonderful weekend!/ Tyra

Red October - Rose Hips

This post 'Red October - Rose Hips' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden/ Tyras Trädgård

Red October - Rose Hips

Along the shores of the Baltic Sea I often find the lovely berries of the wild roses - the rose hips.
 At this time of the year it is especially nice to take a walk along the rocky shores and pick these nutritious berries. That is if the weather is nice. Today was one of those wonderful October days with high clear air, blue sky, a mild October sun and hardly any wind at all.

Rose hips, red autumn leaves and the last of the Echinacea purpurea

Last night was the first night with ground frost...fall is definitely here. 

I took a few hours  walk along the sea, looking and admiring Mother nature’s flora and fauna and listening to the waves from the Baltic Sea as the gently rolled in.  I made a stop at the very end of the small peninsula and just caught the moment. I had brought some hot cocoa in a thermos and that tasted just wonderful … it always does.

In this post "Full of vitamin C and so delicious" I give you a recipe for a Rose Hips Marmalade

Dahlia - Bishop's Children

This post "Dahlia - Bishop's Children" was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius-Lindhe in the blog Tyras Trädgård -Tyra's Garden

October flowers - DAHLIA

We have enjoyed a period of wonderful weather here where about I live, we call it Brittsommar and it is almost like your Indian summer, not as hot but still absolutely marvelous. The kitchen garden is still full of flowers - Nasturtiums, Pot Marigolds, Zinnias, Sweet Peas and Dahlias. The Dahlia on the picture is Bishop’s Children, a Dahlia I grow from seed. I planted them in April and now in October they are all “ in floribus”. I bought the seeds from US. SSE Seed Savers Exchange. The thing I really like with this Dahlia is the very dark foliage, isn’t it just fabulous

The Kichen Garden - Köksträdgården is just updated with a new post about Edible flowers.

By the way the Dahlia is also edible.

Water for Body and Soul

This post Water for Body and Soul was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius-Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden

Water for Body and Soul

Born in the sign of Taurus my element is Earth and that is an element that I of course as a gardener just L.O.V.E. But I couldn’t live without the water, nor my garden. What would life be without water?...Now I just do not mean pure water for my (65% water content) body, I mean water for my soul. I need to be close to water, see water, feel water and if possible and even better to hear water - Thank God and I'm very grateful for it, that I'm fortunate to live close to the water and that I live in a country with a lot of water.

However the only water features that I got in my garden is a birdbath in one of the rocks and a large 19th Century Copper Bucket on an iron stand. I think this specific type of old bucket are called a laundry copper or just 'copper'. I have it in the greenhouse for watering my greenhouse plants and to even out the temperature between day and night.

Whenever I accidently break off a flower out in the potager this is where I place it, in the ‘copper’. This flower I would like to call my Water-lily Dahlia as I think it would be a suitable name, but it is actually a Semi Cactus Dahlia, I think it is ‘Snow Princess’ but I’m not sure.



and now some Water Music

by Georg Friedrich Händel, It premiered on 17 July 1717 and it is still great!

Well what do you know…it is Friday again and consequently it is Blooming Friday here in Tyra’s Garden.

This weeks theme: WATER

 Great thank you to our host, dear Katarina, do visit Katarina place and there you find more participant from all over the world.

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Tyra

October Harvest from my Potager - Tabbouli

This post October Harvest from my Potager - Tabbouli was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius-Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden

Late October and yet I can still harvest from my potager.

We have had some nights with frost and we have even had snowfall. So I’m rather amazed that I could harvest these things today. From todays harvest I’m going to make Tabbouli a herby Lebanese bulgur salad. For this dish I need a lot of parsley, 2 tomatoes, some mint and 2 small onions from my potager addition to that I need bulgur, lemon juice, olive oil salt and pepper. It would be nice to add a pomegranate too but unfortunately I have got that so I have to cope without it.

Aubergine, Rocoto pepper, parsley, Cherokee purple tomatoes, Poblano chili and Chervena Chushka pepper

To drink with my Tabboulli

 I’m going to have a cold Rose, apple and mint tea,

 an October Harvest Tea!

Apples, mint and Roses from the garden.

It is Harvest Monday at Daphne´s place do pop over to Daphne and meet the rest of the guys,

but first...

Don't be a stranger my friend

 Do write something, I would just love to hear from you./ Tyra

Backlit Photographs of my Garden.

This post 'Backlit Photographs of my Garden' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden
Det här inlägget hittar du på svenska i KÖKSTRÄDGÅRDEN


Against-the-light

 It is not that often we garden people take pictures with backlight in our garden but it is rather charming and perhaps we should use this photo technique a bit more frequently.

I read an article in takegreatpicture.com  about the backlight technique.

" Backlight is certainly not the easiest type of light with which to work, but taming it is a lot less difficult than you think." read the whole article Backlight Busters by Russ Burden

 

 My greenhouse on fire

 These photos are taken in November a few years ago, I think they are pretty nice, it is a calmness in them that I like, perfact the backlight effect helped to enhance that feeling.

Herbs and Kale in a cold greenhouse

It is Blooming Friday again my friends and the theme for this week is against-the-light. And this is my contribution, if you pop over to Katarinas place Roses and stuff there you can meet more participants from all over the globe. Enjoy! I end this post with a little Dahlia. It is a Dahlia Mignon 'Firebird' with backlight of course. 

I wish you all a lovely weekend/ Tyra

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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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Wild, Beautiful...and Bad

This post 'Wild and Beautiful' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius-Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden

The Scarabaeidae Cetonia aurata.

By tomorrow half of the month October has already passed and I must say it has been wonderful so far. Sunshine almost every day and up to now no frost here in Vaxholm, I still have my Dahlias in bloom and chilies in the greenhouse! Time flies fast and it is Friday again and once again we visit Katarina in her blog Roses and Stuff, it is Blooming Friday and this week theme is 'Wild and beautiful'. I glanced through my garden picture and found this little fellow.

I think the Cetonia aurata is extraordinary beautiful, but I know it is a bad - wild, beautiful and bad. Still I like it when it comes into my garden for a quick visit, as long as 'he' doesn't bring all the family.


UPDATE! What have I done, it's not that bad at all! I guess it is just some gardener that has complained that their lawn has been 'ruined' and plant roots been eaten by the Cetonia auratas larvae. I've killed several of these...now I'm the bad one :-) Read more about the Cetonia here in The Natural History Museum site - Cetonia aurata - Rose chafer
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I just have to add a flower as well. One of the last, don't know the name of it. This rose was one of those cheap pots of roses they sell in the local grocery store. I have had it for a few year now and it seems to like it in my potager.

- I wish you all a lovely weekend in your garden.

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Arty Artichoke

This post was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog Tyras Garden

Arty Artichoke

T.G.I its Friday and once again It is Blooming Friday

For this weeks theme Katarina our host choose 'USED' 

My used leaves of my artichoke dinner represents this week theme in Tyra's Garden. I always think my plate of artichokes looks the most beautiful when I'm just about to take them to the compost bin.

 I wish you all a great weekend./ Love Tyra

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

All Saints & Souls

This post 'All Saints and Souls' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden

I wish you all a great Halloween, All Saints & All Souls' Day -

Light some candles for all souls & give your absent friends a special thought.

Update!! ops...I almost forgot it is Blooming Friday!

The last blooming Friday of October, a big thank you to our host Katarina

TYRA

I Don't Want My Fingers To Smell Garlicky

A gadget for us garden/kitchen geeks, Maria has got a theme today.

'Gadget for gardening freaks '

well ...

photo:GarlicBOSS

I thought about this little GarlicBOSS, I really like it, I love the name too.

I have a post about Garlic - Allium sativum in The Greenhouse Check it out!

TYRA

Starflower - Trientalis europaea - Skogsstjärna

This post 'STARFLOWER' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden

Artic Starflower the small and delicate beauty from the wood.

Oops...I bit late with the blooming Friday post but here are some picture from a walk in the big old forest.

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Starflower - Skogsstjärna in swedish is the same as Moonshine in english I mean the common term for home-distilled alcohol, especially in places where this practice is illegal. Just some unnecessery knowledge :-)

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Arctic Starflower Trientalis europaea is a plant in the Primulaceae family, called by the common name chickweed wintergreen or Arctic starflower. It is a small herbaceous perennial plant with one or more whorls of obovate leaves. The leaves take on a copper hue in late summer. The solitary white flowers (1-2 cm diameter, usually with 6-8 petals) appear in midsummer. Trientalis europaea occurs throughout boreal regions of Europe and Asia, but is largely replaced by Trientalis borealis in correponding habitats in North America. Wikipedia

It is Blooming Friday and Katarina our host have a post about seed and seedheads.

Have a great weekend

TYRA

Garden Bloggers' Blooms Day - Potager & Greenhouse

This post 'Garden Bloggers' Blooms Day - Potager & Greenhouse' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden

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October started out with harsh winds and some tough cold days with frost at night. It is slowing down in the garden, the harvest is thinning out although I still find some late 'treasures' in the potager. It's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day once again and thanks to Carol of May Dreams Gardens, we get to see all the lovely in gardens around the world and what is 'in floribus' just now, fascinating isn't it.

John Davies

One of the last roses...I think, you never know

Auricula

This Auricula is generally a spring flower, but this Primula auricula one just wanted to get some fresh autumn air.


Geramiums in the greenhouse


The Cichorium has been 'in floribus' in my potager since June



Gerbera in the greenhouse, I think a wonderful splash of colour ...


Kaprifol

This Honeysuckle is a cutting I took from the mother plant in July and it spreads a wonderful fragance in the greenhouse at the moment.



Here comes the sun tadadada... (I'm singing the Beatles song) Calendula officinalis is another 'sun' in the potager, self sown, I like that, here in good company with the parsley.

and the last picture is of my monk in the potager 'Franciscus cupani'



That's all folks!



TYRA

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Wild Sweet Pea from Sicily

This post 'Wild Sweet Pea from Sicily' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden

Sicilian Wild Sweet Pea , Heirloom

Lathyrus odoratus "Franciscus Cupani"

An old heritage variety from 1699, scattered with medium sized flowers in violet and purple. Absolutely wonderful fragrance. In this northern climate we sow the seeds in March-June, it takes 10-30 days to germinate, blooms from June to the first frost, 5 feet tall. Likes a sunny position of course when bearing in mind where it comes from.

Chiltern Seeds "Rather surprisingly, for such a well-known flower, the origins of Lathyrus odoratus are shrouded in mystery and its country of origin is not known. The flower was first introduced into this country (UK) from Sicily in 1699 where wild specimens have also been collected relatively recently. In addition, similar plants have been collected in South America, but all these are suspected of being garden escapes. From these “original” plants were developed what were known as the grandiflora but are now generally called the Old-Fashioned Sweet Peas."

Siciliansk Vildluktärt (kulturarv)

Lathyrus odoratus "Franciscus Cupani"

Ett årig kulturarvssort från 1699 (?) den är nog betydligt äldre men den importerades till England då. Plantan översållas av halvstora blommor i violett och purpur. Fullkomligt underbar doft.
Så den i Mars-Juni, det tar 10-30 dagar att gro, Blommar Juni till och enda till det att frosten tar den, gillar soligt läge förstås (sicilien ) blir omkring 150 cm hög. Du kan finna frö hos Impecta.

It is Blooming Friday and Katarina askes What is the favourite in your garden now? Katarina shows us some of her lovely roses.

My favourite is a 'monk'

~ Franciscus Cupani ~

Happy gardening my friend!

TYRA