Mösakäringa.

Written by Christer.

Foxglove to the right.

We’ve had everything from cloudy weather to sunshine to rain and thunder today.It rained when I came home from work and after that we had so dark clouds that I though more thunder was on the way so we stayed at home and in the garden. I and my dogs once got caught in a thunderstorm where I had to chose from being the highest point in the fields or standing between the trees in the forest 🙂 🙂 It was one of those fierce storms so the lightning flew all over the sky above us but none hit the ground here in the village.

Grape vines grow like weeds.
I apparently still have two grapevines in my garden 🙂 I thought I had removed this one several years ago but here it is 🙂

The broken old wheelbarrow. I always sow different poppies and morning glories in it.

The poppies will soon open up, the Californian poppies however is far behind.
I sowed this Mock orange around 20 years ago and it flowers nicely every year and has become pretty big.
I sowed this Mock orange well over twenty years ago. It is now huge and flowers nicely every year.

They are guessing that the weather will stabilize towards Midsummers eve and after that become warmer and more sunny but You all know by now that they aren’t too good at their work when it comes to guessing what the weather will be like here 🙂 🙂 🙂  I know that in some folklore the beings doesn’t like to be out and about in daylight but very few is like that here in our tales. Like the Skogsrå, a forest nymph. She has lots of local names and I think that when people talk about here in this area they call her Mösakäringa (would be something like the Bog hag, personally I call her the Bog Lady just in case I ever should meet her 🙂 ). Everyone knows that when the fog rolls in over the fields from the forests it’s the Bog hags that has poured water over their nightly fires.

I have more roses than I can remember and I really can't say I like roses :-)
Found another rose that I remember I brought home after a plant swapping day. It has had a tough life fighting with wild roses I now have removed.Turns out it was lying flat on the ground so I’ve now helped it up again.
Persimmon shoots.
New shoots from the roots of the dead Persimmon hybrid. I’ve read that it is easy to make those shoots grew new roots so I’ll try that with some of them.

The Wisteria that I’ve tried to remove so many for years now but cut off a big piece of root is now growing in the Lathyrus, Golden shower. They have leafs looking very similar so if I’m lucky I’ll have both yellow and blue flowers in that tree 🙂

She’s the one that reigns over the forest /bog and all the animals and if she likes a human she will allow them to hunt in her area. In this region she’s always described as very beautiful and tries to lure men to follow her and, if she wants to, kill them or seduce them. Her backside looks different when it comes to where she lives, Here she looks like a hollow log on her back but further north she look just like a human but has a tail. In the Norse beliefs the god Odin hated her and often hunted her like an animal but she’s hard to kill, only a silver bullet could do that (and I guess that since there were no bullets back in Odins days he must have used something else made by silver. If one would meet any kind of beings when walking around in the forest it’s always a good idea to have  some pieces of silver, either as an apology if one has done something stupid or a way to become friends with them Preferable that silver should be begged while walking on a pilgrimage 🙂 To be honest I don’t think they are that picky now days since so few wear pieces of silver in their pockets while walking in the forest 🙂 🙂

Nepeta sibirica.
Rosa multiflora. Forbidden to have in many states in the US.
Rosa multiflora, Japanese climbing rose. It is still behaving nicely up here in Scandinavia but can spread fast and tends to push away other wild roses. Forbidden to have in many states in the US.

Have a great day!

5 thoughts on “Mösakäringa.”

  2. I kind of like that Bog Lady’s backside can look like a hollow log. She’d blend into her surroundings very well.

    Odin probably switched to silver bullets as soon as they became available.

    There are Japanese multiflora roses all over my property. They are the ones I call vicious roses. I’ve had some success with chopping the clumps back to the ground every time they sprout up. After awhile they give up and don’t come back. But there are so many all over that I can’t keep up. I hate them. I’m also coming to strongly dislike privet hedge and pokeweed. Pokeweed’s only saving grace is that it is a native species though not exactly native to Massachusetts where I am. Privet might have a plus side, too, in that it’s berries are the last food left at the end of winter but only because nothing eats it unless they are starving.

    Here it is Day One of the Heat Dome. Not too bad yet but will get hotter until Friday. I may have to put the AC in the window because the dogs are not happy.

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    1. Hi Caryn!

      Yes she was hard to see when she turned around 🙂
      And Odin was after all a god so he might have traveled into the future and bought some and a rifle of course 🙂 🙂 🙂

      So far that rose is behaving here but we have problems with the Beach rose (rosa rugosa). They’ll never get rid of that one because it is planted in every public park, playground, roundabout and in garden 🙂 🙂 That one I’m sure was made in hell because of its thorns 🙂 🙂 🙂 I have two in my garden and will never be able to remove them unless a huge digger comes and dig them up 🙂 🙂 We have absolutely no problems with Privet and Pokeweed,

      WE won’t be close to any heat dome over here but are happy that it at least will rise slightly above 68F 🙂

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