A Theater in the Garden

This post, "A Theater in the Garden" was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog

Tyra's Garden

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This is the new small building project for Tyra's Garden 2009

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I'm going to build myself a theater. A theater for my Auriculas. I love to design and build all kind of things in wood and when I saw this Auricula Theater in Gothenburg last summer I just fell in love with it. In this picture you can see that is not Auriculas that are on display, I think there where Geraniums actually and that works excellent too don't you think? Perhaps I shall just call it a Plant Theater instead.

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I can imagine it would look great with just green plants too. Hedera, Sedums and Sempervivums to mention a few.

What do you think isn't just lovely?

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The Garden Society of Gothenburg

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This is an earlier post about the amazing place in the middle of Gothenburg Town. The Garden Society of Gothenburg A Jewel in Gothenburg

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Den här underbart söta lilla teatern för Auriculas såg jag förra sommaren på ett besök hos Trädgårdsföreningen. Trädgårdsföreningen i Göteborg Jag blev helt kär i den och nu har jag bestämt att en sådan får det bli. Då har jag alltså spikat hihi ett litet snickeriprojekt för 2009. Läs mer om denna lilla juvel i ett tidigare inlägg. En Juvel i Göteborg

Useful link if you are interested in Auricula.

The National Auricula and Primula Society

It is Blooming Friday and you find more blooming wonderful posts here at Katarinas Roses and stuff. It is funny I have the Theater and Katarina has got the Prima Ballerina, Primula 'Ballerina'

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I wish you all a sunny great weekend!

Don't be a stranger my friend...do write something.

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TYRA

FOLLOW FELLOW problems?

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I'm confused

Now I follow myself! It doesn't feel good at all :-)

The last week I've had problems with my follow list. My Garden friends and readers. I have lost 9 friends and readers over one night and today when blogger had change the ‘follow feature’ I signed in….big mistake! I added my self! Now I cannot get rid of myself.
Does anyone have any ideas, where do I stop follow?

To my lost friends, I miss you!

TYRA

Ideas? I need a little help from my friends ;-)

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Towards Lighter and Brighter Times

This post, "Lighter and Brighter Times" was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

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Lighter and Brighter days.

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The sun went up 7.02 here today and will go down at 17.00.

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Hyacinthus orientalis ' Woodstock' Woodstock and Tyra from 2007

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With this collage I'm saying Good-bye to the winter. I still have cold weather but today I'm starting up the Greenhouse after the long winter break. There will be NO more winter pictures and no more snow in Tyra's Garden for this season. I'm standing with one foot in winter land and one in spring and very soon I'll take a giant step towards lighter and brighter days.

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När kommer våren?

"När kommer våren?" Detta är en av de vanligaste frågorna till SMHI så här års.


När vi gör sammanställningar av hur vädret varit en viss årstid använder vi fasta tremånadersintervall. Med våren avser vi då månaderna mars, april och maj. Man skulle alltså kunna göra det mycket enkelt för sig, och hävda att våren alltid startar den 1 mars. Men våren kommer då alltid lika tidigt till Treriksröset som till sydligaste Skåne, och det kan kanske kännas lite verklighetsfrämmande. En definition som bättre tar hänsyn till rådande temperaturförhållanden är att förlägga vårens ankomst till den tidpunkt när dygnsmedeltemperaturen stiger över 0°. Om dygnsmedeltemperaturen legat över 0° hela vintersäsongen väljer man den tidpunkt när temperaturen upphört att sjunka och börjar stiga. I ett diagram som visar temperaturens variation i medeltal över ett stort antal år är det lätt att finna denna tidpunkt. Men hur gör man när det gäller ett enskilt år med stora dagliga temperatursvängningar?
Sedan några år tillbaka använder SMHI regeln att våren anses ha anlänt det första dygnet i en rad av minst sju dygn med en dygnsmedeltemperatur på minst en tiondels plusgrad.
Detta ger en rätt god överensstämmelse med den klimatologiska definitionen ovan. För att minska risken att vårens ankomst följs av en långvarig återgång till kallt vinterlikt väder har vi satt den 15 februari som tidigast möjliga datum för vårens ankomst. Det är nämligen först i mitten av februari som dygnsmedeltemperaturen normalt visar en stigande tendens. SMHI.


TYRA

ROQUAMOLE - ' It Roques! '

This post, "Roquamole" was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

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Roquamole - 'It Roques' :-) !

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You just have to try this dish influenced by Mexico.

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Roquamole

125 g Roquefort or St. Agur
60ml sour cream
2 ripe avocados
35g sliced pickled green jalapeño chilli peppers from a jar
2 spring onions, finely sliced
1/4 teaspoon paprika

Corn tortilla chips

I saw Nigella the other day in the television making this gorgeous dip that she called Roquamole.

This is how Nigella made it.

She crumbled or mashed the blue cheese with the sour cream in a bowl.
Mashed in the avocados. If they are ripe, a fork should be all you need.
Roughly chopped the sliced jalapeños and stired them into the mixture along with the finely added "the jade colour discs" of spring onions.
Nigella arranged the roquamole in the centre of a plate or dish, dusted the Roquamole with the paprika and surrounded the bowl with multicoloured tortilla chips.

Ta Daa!

Lovely Blue cheese, I choose a local mature blue cheese with whisky.

and now...a typical 'Nigella' frase - I love it!

Some of my favourite mexican plates and bowls.

I tried it on Friday evening and it was delicious!

Additional info from my food goddess:

Nigella says “Although I have called this incredible dip roquamole, I think it may be better made with a less illustrious bleu. St Agur out of a wedge – shaped packet is the blue cheese I keep in the fridge so that I am ever – ready to make this. You don’t need to serve subfusc blue corn tortilla chips with this; you don’t have to serve any kind of tortilla chip with this: though both do add to the luscious eat – me quality. But I’m also very keen on a huge platter of dippable bits: radishes, carrot batons, sugar – snaps, you name it.”

Enjoy!

TYRA

T.G.I Friday - TULIPS

This post, "T.G.I Friday"was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

T.G.I Friday

The weekend begins, you buy some really nice food and drink for dinner, add some great music and fresh flowers on the table...it's Friday, the best day of the week.

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Tulips are the favourites right now, they are a messenger of spring and gives us so much joy. When you buy them they are so fresh that the stems make this lovely squeaking noise and they stay fresh the whole week especially if you store them cold during the night. Another thing I like about the tulips are that I think they are getting old very gracefully, the flowers opens the shape alters totally, the colour gets softer, however still beautiful. One day the leaves start to fall and then you know....it's Friday again!

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Blooming Friday - Meet more participants here at Katarinas

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I wish you all a great weekend.

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Don't be a stranger do write something/ TYRA

"Me pascunt olivae, me cichorea, me malvae"

This post, "Me pascunt olivae, me cichorea, me malvae"was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

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Chicory not just a pretty flower

Just must visit M a s D u D i a b l e and read Laura Hudsons Plant profile of just Chicory & Endive

"I love the robust, complex flavours and the variety of textures and colours that this family of leafy plants offers the salad bowl. February has, in previous years, been the middle of our chicory & endive season. This year, with the tunnel out of action and the rains trashing the outdoor seedlings, I can only look at the pictures and dream of last years crop and make a mental note to sow plenty this year." Laura Hudson

"Me pascunt olivae, me cichorea, me malvae"

A small history lesson. The chicory plant is one of the earliest cited in recorded literature. Horace mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simple: "Me pascunt olivae, me cichorea, me malvae" ("As for me, olives, endives, and mallows provide sustenance").
Lord Monboddo describes the plant in 1779 as the "chicoree", which the French cultivate as a pot herb. In the Napoleonic Era in France, chicory frequently appeared as either an adulterant in coffee or a coffee substitute; this practice also became common in the United States and the United Kingdom, e.g., in England during the Second World War and in Camp Coffee, a coffee and chicory essence which has been on sale since 1885.

Chicory is an ingredient in typical Roman recipes, generally fried with garlic and red pepper, with its bitter and spicy taste, often together with meat or potatoes

The chicory flower is often seen as inspiration for the Romantic concept of the Blue Flower. It was also believed to be able to open locked doors, according to European folklore.

Root chicory (Cichorium intybus var. sativum) has been in cultivation in Europe as a coffee substitute for a long time. The roots are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and additive, especially in the Mediterranean region (where the plant is native), although its use as a coffee additive is also very popular in India, parts of Southeast Asia and the American South, particularly in New Orleans. wikipedia

I've got my own bank!

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Read more about this and my tomatoes 2009 in the Greenhouse of Tyra's Garden

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I wish you all a happy and sunny weekend

and to Australia a lot of heavy rain!

TYRA

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My Potager - The Scheme

This post, 'My Potager -The Growing Scheme' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

MY POTAGER - The growing season 2009

part 1. The Growing Scheme

The treasure chest with my seeds is now opened; it is time to start sowing my seeds. It’s certainly is a big moment for me, I have been waiting for so long. I have this perhaps ridiculous rule first that I’m not allowed to buy my seeds before New Year and secondly I have to wait until the 1st of February before I can sow them. You see when I start with the seeds very soon our veranda gets occupied by all the seedlings and let say that not all in the family enjoys it. This otherwise wonderful room with a view (sunny and south-east faceing, perfect for seedlings) gets absolutely cluttered with my babies and there will be to chance to have a nice lunch in there until… ops May.





This rule is quite good with because then I have plenty of time to plan my garden, make a plant chart a scheme over where and what I’m going to plant. It is important to have a rotation scheme when you are growing vegetables. Us I practise interplanting I have to think about which vegetable I’m going to plant with which, it’s a big and intricate puzzle which takes time.

I have to match the plants by at least these three basics:

Which temperature and how much sun they require.

Their root system if they are shallow or deep-rooted.

How much nutrition the plant demands.

Interplanting/intercropping has been practiced since ancient times by for example the Native Americans. Intercropping is the growing of two or more crops in proximity to promote interaction between them. I have written in a post from 2007 'Three sisters' about this mostly in Swedish I’m afraid.

Read more about this here: COMPANION PLANTING CHART FOR HOME & MARKET GARDENING.

Three sisters –The Aztec Myth text from ATTRA

“Three Sisters” emerged from the Iroquois creation myth. It was said that the earth began when “Sky Woman” who lived in the upper world peered through a hole in the sky and fell through to an endless sea. The animals saw her coming, so they took the soil from the bottom of the sea and spread it onto the back of a giant turtle to provide a safe place for her to land. This “Turtle Island” is now what we call North America. Sky woman had become pregnant before she fell. When she landed, she gave birth to a daughter. When the daughter grew into a young woman, she also became pregnant (by the West wind). She died while giving birth to twin boys. Sky Woman buried her daughter in the “new earth.” From her grave grew three sacred plants—corn, beans, and squash. These plants provided food for her sons, and later, for all of humanity. These special gifts ensured the survival of the Iroquois people.

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I hope you found this interesting - please do write and tell me if you got any tips and ideas about Intercropping and Companion planting.

Don't be a stranger- write something.

TYRA

Tulipa kaufmanniana Heart's Delight - Waterlily tulip

This post, 'Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Heart's Delight' - Waterlily tulip' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

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Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Heart's Delight'

also called

The Waterlily tulip

This Blooming Friday I would like to introduce a small and pretty tulip. The tulipa kaumanniana ’Heart’s Delight'. If you are interested of tulips I found this most informative page where you can read a lot of fascinating things about these small wonders.

In The Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl visit the tulip page here

The kaufmannianas are called "waterlily type" because when fully opened on a very sunny day, they are flat & starshaped and bear a resemblance to waterlilies. They do not, of course, live in water, nor do they even require much watering, prefers moist and well-drained soil when active, and rather dry soil when dormant. Read more about my darling tulips in these posts:

Carpe diem, another perfect day in paradise

Irrestistible Botanical Tulips

Tulips in the gravel

This is Peter - это царь Петр

Blooming Friday, meet more participants here at Katarina's Roses and stuff

I wish you all a very lovely weekend

- Ha en trevlig blommig fredag och en riktigt trevlig helg!

TYRA