I took these pics in our garden today. Violas…
There was this guy who enjoyed the flowers as much as I did.
…nothing more. 🙂
-Leena
Tag: garden
Some things to one’s heart’s content
I visited the city of Turku last week, and visited the garden store Plantagen in the town of Raisio on Friday, too. I met this wonderful plant there… just had to take a couple of pics of it. I like very much going to Plantagen – there are so many flowers, plants, bushes, trees… everywhere around there. It’s actually one of my favourite places in the Turku region. 🙂
A garden croton or variegated croton are the names I could find in English, in Finnish this plant is literally a wonder bush – ihmepensas. 🙂
Just for the colours…
On Saturday here in the region of Satakunta, my home region.
In the evening we stopped by the lake Pyhäjärvi, the lake that is our great pride and joy here in Satakunta. A lake large in size, a bit sealike. It was windy and the sound of the waves was so powerful and lovely. I like very much visiting the lake in any kind of weather.
On Saturday, a bit later, a campfire in our garden. We, me and my boyfriend, are real campfire people. 🙂 We build campfires here and there, all year round, and in our garden, too. I love the scent, the sound, the atmosphere…
The food… We have a wok pan for the campfire. We like campfire cooking very much, too – on a wok pan, on a grill grate, on a stick… all year round.
The first fully opened flower of the narcissus in our garden yesterday. It was a rainy day again. But this beauty dazzles!
And yesterday in our garden, nettles – food! Nettles have started to grow nicely, let us eat nettles and speak of them later on. 🙂
-Leena
For the sun of today
Today it’s like spring and summer at once. 😉 It’s been warm and sunny this spring already before, but now it’s beginning to be like the real deal…
…I can take my coffee pic with green grass in it.
So warm and nice to sit on the warm bench. And the sky is blue…
But what’s up with growing wine grapes in Finland? 🙂
Dazzled by the sun beside the flower bed waiting for summer flowers…
-Leena
Some sun internally and a few delights in the garden right now
Today it was again time to get some sun… internally. 😉
Egypt meets Finland… Navel Oranges are so juicy and delicious, and cheap at this time of the year, even in Finland. 😀 After some heavy rain today I was sitting on the wet garden bench again, devouring my orange and after that I took a short tour with my camera around our garden.
Leopard’s Bane or doronicum has started to grow. Waiting for the yellow flowers, last spring there were so many…
Yesterday I noticed that one part of our chives has started to grow, too. I tasted a bit of one of them – the taste was so good and fresh!
The first yellow bud of the narcissus that was in my previous blog post.
This I’ve been watching the whole winter and even now; the blackberry bush in our garden has a few very strong leaves – they have endured there on the twigs the whole time. All the other bushes and trees have lost all their leaves many months ago. 🙂
-Leena
Early springtime
It sounds better than it looks, the early springtime – it’s all still very brownish, nature and garden both, but oh, the sound of the so many birds chirping, tweeting, chirruping, a woodpecker knocking… everywhere around you, even when the sun is not shining. It’s like some jungle… or just the springtime here in Finland! 🙂
One part of our vegetable garden. Our growing field will be expanded a bit this spring…
I was sitting on a bench, having my coffee and taking some pics.
I love these evergreen pine trees… I like to think them as palm trees here in the north… 😉
What’s your favourite colour?
Narcissus, Tête-à -Tête. Waiting for the yellow delights to spring up…
-Leena
Still time to take winter photos
Warming up this blog continues. I took these two photos on Monday this week in our garden, when the light there was a bit like in a fairy tale. The sun was shining delightfully behind the cloud cover.
Our garden meets the woods. I like to call this woods and these trees as ‘our woods’ or ‘my woods’, but it actually belongs to the village we live in. But yes, this woods also belongs to our great spotted woodpecker. 😉
There’s still something left of our garden fence from the 1960s. (We, me and my man, are both from the 1980s 😀 and we moved into our house in the year 2014, by the way – just to make things clearer…) I’ve said to my boyfriend that we should live this part of the fence like it is here now. I think it looks charming just the way it is now and right in this place it is. I think it would be nice to conserve something old and original as this, as well.
We, me, my man and our two cats, live in the rural southwestern Finland in the region of Satakunta, it’s where I started writing this blog on Wednesday this week, but now, as I write this, I’m visiting Turku, the city on the southwest coast of Finland. I’m on the second floor in a block of flats here, so no garden for me here, but still making the best of it! 🙂
-Leena