TODAY I'M FILTHY RICH...

NOT!

Gold, gold, everywhere and I got it for free! When I was a small girl we call the leaves golden coins. Sometimes I still think of them as gold coins consequently you can imagine that at this time of the year I'm really filthy rich :-)

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Today was the day of the colour Ochre in my garden. Ochre or Ocher (pronounced /'əʊ.kə(r)/, from the Greek ὠχρός, yellow) is a color, usually described as golden-yellow or light yellow brown. Wikipedia

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Morning of the golden day.

But will come a tomorrow....When I have to pic them all up!

........but the worns want to have a fair share. Thank God!

TYRA

Take a peek in the greenhouse 'Pure Joy'

Recycled piece of furniture.

GARDEN FURNITURE

I went to an outdoor auction in the countryside last weekend and look what a found. A pedestal for my greenhouse isn’t it just perfect. Old, worn and a bit shabby but nice, just the way I want it to be. It will be great for the greenhouse and the garden. All my pieces of furniture in the greenhouse are real bargains, they are old and worn, now I have been missing a pedestal and there it was…for 40 kronor (7 dollar). Recycle more!

Have a great day!

The greenhouse Pure Joy

- Ha en fin dag, hoppas att det blir ännu en fin höstdag. Det är riktiga guldagar vi har haft i oktober tycker jag och det behöver vi för snart går vi in i det stora mörkret!

TYRA

Wallpainting - I know I'm potty

We planted a seed...

Do you remember my Topiary bedroom, we have had an empty pot on the wall for some years now and a few weeks ago we decided to plant a seed. Look what's come up...an Impomea. It's not full grown yet so we cannot begin to trim it into a Topiary Impomea we have to wait for some months, maybe we can start next spring. (old post Topiarius Tyra)

Impomea - The Topiary bedroom. Photo Tyra

My Topiary in a pot Photo Martina Svensson

Empty pot, before the seed was planted. Photo Martina Svensson Impomea in Tyra's Garden

RED

Falu red or in Swedish we call it Faluröd is the name of the beautiful Swedish, deep red paint well known for its use on wooden cottages and barns. The paint originated from Falun in Dalarna ( copper mine) , Sweden. The traditional colour remains popular today due to it's effectiveness in preserving wood it is absolutely fantastic. Easy to paint and it doesn't smell.

The earliest evidence of its use dates from the 16th century. During the 17th century Falu red was commonly used on smaller wooden mansions, where it was intended to imitate buildings with brick facing. Except in bigger cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg, and in the extreme south of Sweden, wood was the dominating building material. In the Swedish cities and towns, buildings were often painted with the Falu red until the early 19th century, when the authorities began to oppose the paint. At this point in time more and more wooden buildings in urban areas were either painted in lighter colours (e.g. yellow, white) or sided with stucco. The number of buildings made of bricks (with stucco) also increased. However the Falu red saw a surge in popularity in the countryside during the 19th century, when also poorer farmers and crofters began to paint their houses. Falu red is still widely used in the Swedish countryside.
The actual colour may be different depending on how much the oxide is burnt, ranging from almost black to a bright, light red. Different tones of red have been popular at different times. Recently a mix giving a dark green colour, Falu Grön, has also been produced by mixing black and ochre.

The last fading beauty - Rose against the red wall on my cottage in Åkerby Village in the north of Uppland.

The paint consists of water, rye flour, linseed oil and residue from the copper mines of Falun which contain silicates iron oxides, copper compounds and zinc. The current recipe was finalized in the 1920s.

Pictures from the small village called Åkerby, this is where I am now when I'm writing this post. Åkerby bruk founded 1638

TYRA

Green Metallic Beauty

Cetonia aurata. Rose Chafer - Guldbagge

Rare visit in Tyra's Garden the Cetonia aurata on my cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), also called the artichoke thistle which is member of the Aster family.

Cetonia aurata, known as the rose chafer, or more rarely as the green rose chafer, is a reasonably large beetle, 20 mm long, that has metallic green coloration (but can be bronze, copper, violet, blue/black or grey) with a distinct V shaped scutellum, the small triangular area between the wing cases just below the thorax, and having several other irregular small white lines and marks. The underside is a coppery colour. Rose chafers are capable of very fast flight; they do it with their wing cases down thus resembling a bumble bee, see photos below clearly illustrating it. They feed on flowers, nectar and pollen, in particular roses (from where they get their name); which is where they can be found on warm sunny days, between May and June/July, occasionally to September. Wikipedia Cetonia Aurata

När vi hör Guldbagge så tänker vi nog mer på ett filmpris (fult ;-) än på denna vackra skalbaggen som man ibland har turen att hitta i trädgården.

These two picture are not my work, they are from a Swedish forum at Odla.nu

Guldbagge forumbilder från Odla.nu av Amaira

Ha en trevlig helg allihop - Have a great weekend!

TYRA

ZOOM - in the Greenhouse

Come with me to the greenhouse

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Always look at the bright side of life!

You have to really take notice of all the beautiful thing that's surrounds us, pleasure and treasure it, especially in these harsh economic times. It's easy to get depressed but I say like The Monty Pythons once said

- Always look at the bright side of life!My greenhouse in October.The last of the year... Sweet Pea Lathyrus odoratus

and the last blackberries


Don' forget that you can pick the Rose hips, they are free. It's a power food, particularly high in Vitamin C, with about 1700–2000 mg per 100 g in the dried product.
Forsythia
My potager - There are a few veggies left, I usually leave some for the wild animals to feast on during the winter.

Do have a nice day...despite :-)

TYRA

MISTY

I just want to show you this beautiful October morning.

I haven't got many garden ornament but here are a few, the sundail, the crown and my gazebo :-)

När jag vaknade i morse låg det fortfarande dimmor nere på ängen nedanför min trädgård. Tänk att jag älskar verkligen min trädgård på morgonen, jag vet inte riktigt varför men det är nog lugnet och den friska luften. Här är några bilder tagna just igår då det var en sådan där förtrollad morgon.

When I woke this morning it was still mists down on the meadow below my garden. I say ones again I really love my garden in the morning, I do not really know why but it is enough serenity and the fresh air. After breakfast I went for a walk in the garden with my camera. Spider’s web, drops of dew, the autumn colours, the rust on my iron crown and on the old sundial that’s the art of nature that catches my eye. One the other side of the meadow I can see down to the lake, it looks very calm and cold. The colours and structure of the water is soft and mild.

The Gazebo a very old 'jewel' in our garden

The greenhouse in the mist.

Have a nice week /LOL Tyra

Philatelic NEWS for a veggie geek.

Harvest stamps from Sweden.

New Swedish stamps on my stones from Jaipur. Look what I found in the Post office yesterday! Absolutely perfect for a veggie geek like me. Now I can have 'my own' very personal stamps on my letters. Isn’t that just great?

Precis lagom till skördetiden ger posten ut dessa underbara små skönheterna. Jag blev så glad när jag såg dom, de blir ju alldeles perfekt för mina brev. Inte för att man skickar så många brev ny för tiden men när jag nu gör det slipper jag ha 'Gurra' på frimärket.

TYRA

Powerfood

The Brassica - true Powerfood. They are beautiful and so good for you. .

Brassica vegetables are highly regarded for their nutritional value. We should probably eat some Brassica each day. This is a huge vegetable family and they really do come in different shapes, structures and sizes. They provide high amounts of vitamin C and soluble fiber and contain multiple nutrients with potent anti-cancer properties. Broccoli is a true power food..

Kålgrönsaker är högt uppskattad för sitt näringsvärde. Vi borde troligtvis äta Brassicas varje dag. Detta är en stor vegetabilisk familj och de kommer verkligen i en mängd olika former, strukturer och storlekar. De ger stora mängder av vitamin C och löslig fiber och innehåller flera näringsämnen med potenta anti-cancer egenskaper. Broccoli är en verklig power food.

These are my small seedlings from this spring, cute aren't they.

This week a harvest some seeds from last years Red russian. I saved a plant from last year and that plant bloomed with pretty small yellow flowers this summers and now it gave my new seeds....thank you.

more Brassica?...

Tyra

ps. Got to get out and continue with my Dahlias....