I didn’t mind they were wrong about today’s weather :-)

Written by Christer.

So today was supposed to be all cloudy and hot but without any wind. It started out that way but then the sun broke through so the hot part was right because we now do have a wind blowing thankfully. Before it started it was like living in a steam bath here. I couldn’t move a meter without sweating like a pig.

 

The cattle walking in the pasture outside the beekeepers place for the first time this year.
Rowan trees usually don’t grow especially high, this one is at least fifteen meters high (much the same in yards). We had one much bigger but that one was a victim this years thinning. A bit odd because it seems they’ve saved almost all other Rowan trees this time and we do have lots of them here.

We walked down to the creek while it still wasn’t too warm, we couldn’t follow it down stream though because now they let the cattle walk in to the pasture outside the beekeepers so they block the road with those electric wires and I really didn’t want to go through passing them with Alma 🙂 🙂 🙂 I really didn’t want Malkolm to learn from her how to do it 🙂 🙂 🙂 So we walked it up-stream for a while until the grass became too high, damp grass close to a creek is a tick magnet. After that we walked back the same way and suddenly four wild hogs ran out in front of us, perhaps ten meters (much the same in yards) away from us. Alma reacted like always so no photos of them I’m afraid 🙂 🙂

This flowers Swedish name is Hag’s tooth 🙂

   

We actually woke up at 3:45 this morning because someone needed to go outside to do his business 🙂 Normally we would all just stay up and then take a walk as soon as the sun would start to rise. No sun was supposed to shine today though so we all just went back to bed and slept for two more hours and that is really unusual! The sun was shining when we went up again, went back in to the clouds while we were out walking and then came back and has stayed here all day and by the looks of it it’ll stay until it sinks down beyond the horizon. One good thing with yesterdays heavy showers is that I didn’t have to water anything today 🙂

The first Buttercups to flower.

   

The Persimmon hybrid that I bought last year and that looked healthy all winter through until that last snow storm is dead. Since it was a variety however it’s always grafted on a root from the actual persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, and I have hoped that the root has survived because it is so much hardier than the rest of the trees in that family. Today I noticed that a new branch is growing up from the root 🙂 🙂 So since I bought a real Persimmon this year I now will have two 🙂 Lets hope that one is female and one is male so I can grow my own fruits in the future 🙂 So now I have two Persimmon trees and with the my own seedlings nine Pawpaw’s 🙂

Can You see the little green dot at the base of the dead tree trunk? That’s new growth from the Persimmon roots 🙂
This is a new variety of White Mulberry tree with tasty berries. Normally the white mulberry tree gives edible fruits but someone said if one likes the taste of dry grass they’r pretty good 🙂 🙂 This one however gives sweet and tasteful berries. It was quite damaged by frost before it arrived here but it is coming back again.
This is on the other hand another Mulberry tree with the name variety name Mulle 🙂 (Morus accidosa). I once had a smaller tree here but one day my two big dogs dug it up and had lost of fun tearing it apart 🙂 🙂
I’ve bought a tea bush as well this year (Camellia sinensis). It’s just as picky as the Camellia we have as pot plants or in the gardens where the climate allows it but it doesn’t flower until late spring I’ve read plus if it gets big enough I can always try to make a cup of tea from its leafs 🙂 🙂 🙂

We’ve had our pancake Saturday, I’ve sown almost all of the flower seeds I still had (but there’s at least two more but I just can’t find the seed bags 🙂 ) and we’ve had a short nap when it was as warmest. I don’t think we slept for especially long but that nap did more for me than the two more hours in the morning did 🙂 So for the rest of the day I’ll just relax. I didn’t win the Euro jackpot yesterday which is strange since so many really hopes that I will win 🙂 I’ve promised that if I win that much money (around 100 million US dollars) no worker at my work place would have to work any more 🙂 (not even the ones I dislikes). With that much money I still would have perhaps 25 million US dollars left to myself and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t miss the other millions 🙂 🙂 🙂

I did sow Salvia pratensis seeds last year and I think this is it 🙂 The Swedish name for it is Meadow sage and it looks like it’s the same in English!
When You think all the Greater celandine have died out but then You remove some grass and cut away some branches and suddenly it’s everywhere in the garden 🙂 🙂
This is a rhubarb but not an edible one, this is the Chinese rhubarb. Well it is used in traditional medicine but don’t try it for a pie 🙂 Mine has grown in the shadows and too dry for too long so this year I moved it. It can become really big and is quite beautiful as an ornamental plant.

Well the smaller lottery is today with “only” 7,5 millions US dollars as minimum maximum winning. I think it might be higher at the moment. I’ve said that if I “only” win those millions all they can expect from me is a cup cake 🙂 🙂 🙂

Have a great day!

4 thoughts on “I didn’t mind they were wrong about today’s weather :-)”

  1. Yes, I was really hoping you would win the lottery too! Your photos are beautiful, as always. It’s tick season in western Nebraska too. But in a month, it will get hot and dry and we won’t see many.

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    1. Hi ppekka!

      I didn’t win anything in the smaller one either 🙂 🙂

      The little nasties really don’t like dry weather so we’ve been lucky that way with several droughts these last years. At the moment though this area is paradise for them.

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  2. Christer, You always have the best garden. I am so impressed with your fruit trees. What is even more impressive is how much you know about growing things. I call them by their colors. In my front garden are purple flowers and white flowers. I do know lilies of the valley, and they have bloomed. I need to get some seeds as I thought I’d try them in the garden. On the deck I put flowers in the boxes. I’ll plant those next week.

    This has been a tough time. My two friends with whom I spent all the holidays before they moved to Florida passed away, one in November and the other April. I hate getting old and having the people I love get old too.

    My ukulele gets me out of the house. I have practice once a week and a lesson as well. We play a couple of concerts every week.

    The dogs are fine. They had a fight last month but none of us was hurt. They have had three major fights since I got Nala, but Henry cleans her and sleeps beside her. They even take naps together on my bed upstairs so it is not easy to understand.

    Enjoy your Sunday!

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    1. Hi Kat!

      Well growing up in a family where several had garden centers and everyone grew their own food and flowers really helped 🙂 Lily of the valley have just started to flower here, I think I even have a photo of one for the blog today 🙂

      I’m so sorry for You! Losing friends is never easy! I’ve been noticing it amongst my friends on the internet that more and more have passed away. I don’t hate getting old but I’m not happy about all the new problems one get in the body 🙂 🙂 🙂

      It isn’t that strange that the dogs have fights, unlike You they never get out of the house and are always together. Sooner or later that brings up tension and a fight is one way to deal with it. Alma and Albin had fights all the time but when it was over they were the best friends again. It’ll be much the same with Alma and Malkolm too. Well soon the both of them will jump over to the neighbors and play with their children so perhaps not fighting as often as Alma and Albin did, but fight they will 🙂 You’ve been unlucky to have Your fingers in between though. I learned early on that having a bowl of water nearby is the best way to get two dogs to stop fighting and then if needed go to the vet to fix them up 🙂 I’ve also learned that a kick in the a.se works perfect if they fight with a badger 🙂 🙂 🙂 So Your dogs will continue to fight, less when they get older but normally they just sound much worse than they are.

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