Wild Flowers Native to the Forest Floor

April Blooms

The wild flower ~ Common Hepatica ~

Today the botanical name is Hepatica nobilis but Carl von Linné gave it the name Anemone hepatica. Common names: Common Hepatica, Kidneywort, Liverwort, Pennywort. This little pretty flower is a member of the Ranunculaceae family that is native to the forest floors of temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In my country you are not allowed to pick the Hepatica nor dig it up. In the beginning of April each year we can admire and enjoy its astonishing yet uncomplicated beauty in the woods. Among the dry leaves on the forest floor this little fellow reaches up towards the sun and says 'Hello it is spring!'

 
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This is my contribution to this weeks Today's Flower as well as Monday Mosaic. I wish to say Thank you to our dear hosts and to all the visiters,


 I wish you a lovely week 



...and now something in my native tongue

photo: Tyra 'Arty Hepatica' 

Blåsippan ute i backarna står,
 nigen och säger att nu är det vår!

Se men inte röra!

 Jag hörde på naturmorgon i morse att Blåsippan är fridlyst i hela landet.

I bland kan man hitta blåsippor som är nästan röda, lite cerice rosaröda i färgen och de kallas rödsippor men är alltså samma blomma. Hepatica nobilis och tillhör familjen Ranuculaceae. Läs mer om vår älskade blå sippa här i Den virtuella floran Det äldre vetenskapliga namnet var Anemone hepatica

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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Mother Earth's Wild Flowers Garden - Uppland

Tyra wrote this post at the blog Tyra’s Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com. If you are not reading it at Tyra’s Garden, then this content was stolen without permission.

Mother Earth's Garden - Uppland

I'm up at my 'summerhouse' again to make the house ready for the winter. There are a lot of things that need to be attended to, empty the water butts (?) storing all the garden furniture etc. As I was looking at some pictures last night I found these wild flower pictures taken on a walk in May this year at the Bondskärets Naturresevat. This protected area has a great flora and fauna as well as very interesting geological features. This nature reserve Bondskäret is just a few K from here and just by the sea. Meadow flowers at Bondskär Dactylorhiza sambucina. not latifolia as it says on the photo (an old name) , I don't know the english name for it, we call it Adam & Eva. Its an orchid and all the orchids in Sweden are protected species accordingly it is prohibited to pick, dig up or in other ways harm the orchids.

This is the pretty Spring Pea Lathyrus vernus - Vårärt

Meadows and Woodland at the Nature Reserve - Ängskär - Bondskär

Cowslip - Primula veris L. - Gullviva

And at last but not least a favorite the wonderful fragrant Lily-of-the-valley Convallaria majalis L. -Liljekonvalj
Om ni vill ut och göra fina promenader i Uppland rekommenderar jag verkligen att ni går in och läser på Upplandsstiftelsen sida. Den är fantastiskt bra. Massor av fina utflyktstips, promenader, läs om naturvård och lite... nej en massa annan interessant läsning.

Have a great day - Ha en bra dag / TYRA

Calluna vulgaris & Norrpada Achipelago

Calluna vulgaris & the beautiful Archipelago of Norrpada

Missy M on the rocks

Heather Calluna vulgaris

Heather is very common out on our beautiful islands in the Stockholm archipelago. Here I want to show a couple of pictures from an island in Norrpada Archipelago that I really like. Sometimes I visualize that Mother Nature has made all this by herself, well perhaps not entirely by herself possibly with some help from a friend, such a fabulous garden.

For medical use Calluna vulgaris is slightly diuretic, take 2 teaspoons per cup as an infusion to drink between meals 2-3 times a day.

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Ljung Calluna vulgaris

Ljung är vanligt förekommande ute på våra vackra öar I Stockholm skärgård. Här vill jag visa ett par bilder utifrån några öar som jag verkligen gillar. Tänk vad naturen har gjort alldeles själv gjort en sagolik trädgård.

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The garden of Mother Earth - astonishing isn't it?

Hans Bertil Juneby skriver i sin fantastiska bok Fytomedicin att de växtdelarna på denna växt Calluna vulgaris man använder är ört med blommor, herba cum floribus. Medicinsk användning: Ljung används som urindrivande medel och som ett lätt bakteriehämmande medel vid urinvägssjukdomar, kan även vara gynnsam vid mag-tarmkatarr och diarré.

A poem from a Nobel Prize winner

Heather by E.A. Karlfeldt.

Erik Axel Karlfeldt (July 20, 1864 — April 8, 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused it in 1918.

Ljung

Ljung du fagra på hedar magra,

min bästa blomma i barndomsår!

Än får jag bida

i drömmar frida

hos dig en soldag då sunnan går.

Här badar hyddor

i doft av kryddor

från gröna enar och timjan röd,

och vinden bjuder

en dryck som sjuder

av slättens hälsa och sommarns glöd.

Hit skall hon följa

- när vindar bölja

en soldag - hon som jag fjärran fann.

Här skall jag fråga,

om med min låga

mitt sköna hedland hon älska kan.

Och in i kransen

hon bär i dansen

en kväll vars lycka jag anar blott

skall ljung jag fläta,

att ej förgäta

hon må min börd och min barndomslott.

Karlfeldt, Erik Axel (1864-1931), poet, writer, Sweden


TYRA