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 '

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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

Don't be a stranger - do write something

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

'Kanelbullens' Day 2009

Hip hip hurrah! För denna underbara lilla bulle.

We celebrate Kanelbullens dag here in Sweden.

One of our favourite traditional bread is a small bun called Kanelbulle, Cinnamon roll or Cinnamon bun in english and today it is a special day just for this bun. I can promise you that we have baked and eaten tons of them in this country today. I don't dare to say how many I've eaten...they taste absolutely best still warm, straight from the plate with a glas of cold milk.

You can find a recipe in english here. Cinnamon buns they use demerera sugar in the recipe but we usually use ordinary castor sugar.

TYRA

Chop,Chop and Slash

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Killer queen that's me...

We are going to get the first frost tonight and I'm not at all happy about it. The frost really ruins everything, I have so many more things to harvest and no time....

Today I had to kill all the lovely dahlias in my potager, chop and slash. I felt very brutal when I armed with garden fork, scissors and secateurs massacred all my poor poor Dalhias. Now they are laying in black plastic boxes just like in a morgue with a name-tag tied around them. I was able though...(sigh) to save some blooms that I put indoors in vases to get a lovely blooming Friday...

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If you are wondering what is earth I have on my kitchen table it is Cantharellus tubaeformis that I'm drying for later use. Below you find a picture from the woods of the little delicatessen.

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this is one of the victims...

Cantharellus tubaeformis 'Yellow leg'

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This is the first Blooming Friday of October and you find more participants here at Katarina.

TYRA

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