From King Edward to Pommes duchesse

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From dear friend King Edward to Pommes Duchesse, do pop over into The Greenhouse and read what is cookin' in this week ABC post about a 'Tater' King.

Det är ABC Wednesday och denna veckas bokstav är K, välkommen in till The Greenhouse och läs mer om min kära vän King Edward.

TYRA

Zinnia elegans 'Landreth's Oriole' & Co

This post, 'Zinnia elegans 'Landreth's Oriole' & Co' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/..

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Blooming Friday again and the last in the month of March. Outside it is still depressingly cold and still some white stuff on the ground. Blaaa. Indoors however my plants, the small seedlings thrives on the veranda.

Zinnia elegans ’Landreth’s Oriole' is a wonderful heirloom from 18th century. Beautiful orange flowers quite large, double and it reminds me a little of the Dahlia’s flower. I grow all my Zinnias from seed and I start out as early as March. This Zinnia got its name from D. Landreth and this Landreth fellow was quiet a man I will get back to him in another post.

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Zinnia elegans ’Landreths Oriole’ en Kulturarvssort från 1700-talet. Vackert orangegula, stora, dubbla blommor, påminner like om en Dahlia tycker jag. Jag odladen i rabatt och frösår den redan i mars månad. Mannen bakom namnet 'Landreth Oriole' är D. Landreth och honom kommer jag återkomma till i ett annat inlägg.

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These are the Zinnias I have planted in Tyras Garden 2009

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The Zinnia Whirligig fun, Whirligig I had to look up that word I thought they misspellt it, anyway 'Whirligig fun' will be about 50 cm tall (20 inches), the 'Tropical sun' is a dwarf zinnia will be just 25 cm (10 inches) , the last two 'Old Scabiosa' and 'Landreth's Oriole will be about 70 cm tall (28 inches). I generally prefer the really tall ones as I plant them among all my veggies. The seeds are from Impecta, they have an impressive collection of Zinnias this year and a lot of them are heirlooms.

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more Zinnia?

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Blooming Friday! This is my contribrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participant here at Katarina. Roses and Stuff.

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TYRA

Epiphyllum the 'Orchid Cactus' - SWAP with me!

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Seleniphyllum x cooperi

syn. Epiphyllum crenatum

Family: cactaceae

My Epiphyllum ‘Orchid Cactus’ is an easily cultivated, fast growing epiphyte hybrid. Needs compost containing plenty of humus and sufficient moisture in summer. On the other hand during winter I keep it on limit of starvation and fairly cold 12°C (53,5°F). This together with extra light in the early spring stimulates the budding. Can be grown in semi-shade or full sun. Flowers in late spring or early summer. I actually have them outdoors in flowerboxes and other flower containers all summer long. The Epiphyllum crenatum's natural habitat is south America.

SWAP with me!

I wonder if any of you that got some other Epiphyllum hybrids and would like to exchange cuttings?
Please do write to me posttilltyra@hotmail.com any other varieties, colours would be most appreciated !








History about the Epiphyllum crenatum from wikipedia:



"This species was shown at an exhibition at the Horticultural Society's Garden in 1844 and won highest medal for a new introduction. It had been collected in Honduras 5 years earlier by Georges Ule Skinner and sent to Sir Charles Lemon who flowered it for the first time in 1843. Lindley thought it to have originated in the island of Antigua. E. crenatum is the only species of Epiphyllum that has been used in hybridization to any extent. Most of the colored hybrids have mainly Disocactus genes and perhaps better referred to as Disocactus-hybrids rather than Epiphyllum hybrids."






What is an Epiphyllum? Read more about this remarkable plant here at Epiphyllum.com.




and the Epiphyllum even got it's own society in US! Epiphyllum Society of America



A special thank you to my friend Karin Eklund who gave me cuttings from this great plant some ten years ago. She told me that this orchid cactus has been in her home in Österänge since she was a small girl.




TYRA



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Blooming Friday today and the spring is here finally! This is my contribrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participant here at Katarina.

St Patrick's Day and A New Article...

This post, 'St.Patrick's Day - Reportage i Allers Trädgård' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

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March 17 2009 St Patick's Day!

This is the most green day of the year. If you are interested in some Irish dirt you just have to look at this, Irish Dirt here you can also buy Shamrock seeds. It's amazing!

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Now my friend it's time for a new piece about my Greenhouse in one of the monthly garden magazines here in Sweden called Allers Trädgård. This time I'm especially anxious to see how it turnes out because I'm the photographer :-) it's not the first time I have had pictures published before but this time it is the whole reportage and that makes it very exciting.

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Nu mina vänner kommer reportaget i Allers trädgård! Om det är någon som är interesserad av växthuset så kan det väl vara trevligt att se, då får ni kila iväg och köpa Allers Trädgård den 19 mars. De som prenumererar har redan fått den hem i brevlådan. Jag tycker det är extra kul den här gången eftersom att jag har tagit alla foton, det känns jätteroligt. De andra gångerna har jag fått gjort iordning allt och sedan har någon annan kommit och tagit alla bilderna.

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Have a wonderful Green Day!

TYRA

Heirloom Patterns - Oriental Floral Décor

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Heirloom Floral Patterns

Horticulture on the wall

This is a collage of framents of floral décor.

Details from एतमाद-उद-दौला का मक़बरा,

Itmad-ud-Daula's Tomb

اعتماد الدولہ کا مقبرہ

The walls are white marble from Rajasthan encrusted with semi-precious stone decorations - cornelian, jasper, lapis lazuli, onyx, and topaz in floral images. More from my visit at Itmad- ud- Daula here

I have an itch to paint.

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Heirloom patterns - a gift from the past

We have all heard about heirloom seeds and heirloom plant, as I was going through some pictures from India I thought these wonderful botanical patterns are true heirloom patterns – a gift from the past. These fragments of rugs and the wall decoration are from Jaipur and Amber* Fort Rajasthan they have this fantastic floral patterns from the past. The skill of for instance carpet weavers is a typical livelihood passed from one generation to another. The patterns, the art becomes heirloom.

My father, grandfather and uncle as a matter of fact all of the family as far back as I can remember, were carpet weavers before me. I entered the weaving industry at 10 years of age. These word were said by Arthur Mitchum a Brittish weaver b.1862

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Horticulture on the floor

I think you can learn both some horticulture and anthropology by just looking and learning from decorations like these. Indoor Gardens on the floor.

This is a collage with fragments from rugs each one of them a wonderful garden.
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The weaver girl at her loom

I have just learned that loom is a tool and it dates back to 4400 BC (horizontal loom)

The loom is what in this case the rug is woven on. It consists of a wooden framework with a grid of cotton threads. The cotton becomes the base the foundation of the rug. The “warp” is the cotton that runs vertically on the loom and the “weft” is the one that runs horizontally. The warp and weft together create a grid of cotton on which each strand of wool is tied around.

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Oriental Gemstone Painting with floral design.

That is all folks - I hope you have enjoyed my post about florals made of stones and yarn.

~ TYRA ~

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Blooming Friday today and Friday the 13th! This is my contibrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participant here at Katarina.

Time for Sweet Kisses

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Spring - the time for Sweet Kisses!

Planting that is, plant the bulbs in well drained soil. Lilium ‘Sweet Kiss’ is an Asian hybrid and has beautiful soft reddish-pink flowers with a mellow yellow centre. Ideal for both pots and borders. These kisses bloom in July in my garden.
Height about 65 cm/ 26 inches

Nu är det vår och tid för ljuva kyssar.

Plantering alltså... Sweet Kisses planterar du nu på våren i väldränerad jord. Lilium ’Sweet Kiss’ har en härligt svags rosaröd blomma med mjukt gul mitt. Den blir cirka 65 cm hög och blommar i juli månad i min trädgård. Du kan även plantera dem i krukor och njuta av lite liljor på uteplatsen, trappen, bryggan eller kanske på balkongen. Som man bäddar får man ligga säjs det ellerhur? Så plantera lite tacksamma liljelökar nu så får du njuta av ljuva kyssar till sommaren.

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Blooming Friday today and the first one in March! This is my contibrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participant here at Katarina.

XXX/ Tyra

I wish you all a lovely weekend - Don't be a stranger do write something.

A Theater in the 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

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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! '

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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