Even though it has been cloudy almost all day, with an exception for the afternoon, install has been a rather nice day. 15C (59F). Not especially windy either but then again I rarely notice the wind here in the hollow where I live.
Alma behaved really well while we were walking and Malkolm didn’t pull the leash especially hard either. Birds were singing everywhere and we had some geese visiting us in the fields close to the forest.I wore my anorak but that was a bit too much, the only reason I did wear it was because I had no where to place the treats I bring on our walks 🙂 🙂
I’ve been a bit busy in the garden both yesterday and today, ripping up stinging nettle roots, removing an annoying weed called cleavers. The entire vine is covered with tiny hooks, much like velcro, so as soon as it hits it stays and also spreads it seeds everywhere, especially my garden 🙂 🙂 I now have it everywhere and it is important to destroy the roots, otherwise it just comes back again 🙂 🙂 It would take forever to get rid of it so I’ll concentrate to remove it from areas where the dogs tends to walk. I was thinking of perhaps spray it with very salty water to see what happens. One can make tea from them though so perhaps I can get rid of it by drinking it away 🙂 🙂 🙂
I admit that I’ve been standing in the most odd positions to get rid of both the cleaver and nettle so today my legs have been aching a lot 🙂 🙂 🙂 It does of course help to walk around a lot but as soon as I’m sitting still the pain comes back 🙂 🙂 Could be worse though 🙂 I’ve also started to move out the citrus trees I still have indoors and in the cool cellar, perhaps a bit early because it will be much cooler tomorrow and rain will follow. The different weather sites can’t agree to how much rain we’ll have but anything from tiny amounts to up to an inch is suggested 🙂 🙂 🙂
The dogs and the monster have been outside with me the entire day as well, We did take a nap around 11 am and I was even more tired when the alarm sounded so I stayed in the bed for forty minutes more 🙂 🙂 Still that didn’t help a lot 🙂 🙂 I bought two more sacks with soil and poured them out in the big wooden box but can’t say it helped a lot 🙂 🙂 Halt the surface is for the autumn flowering strawberries (why the flower in late summer and autumn I have no idea and they continue to do so until the frost takes them. Now I’ll have to figure out what more to have in the box. I’m thinking peas and beans since there’s a net at the back of the box where they can climb.
I could have carrots there or perhaps some Japanese kale from seeds I bought, easier to cover both from any pests to be honest. I still have time to figure that out because art is way to early to sow them here now.
It is time for that last cup of tea and I think I’ll have a couple of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies as well 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
I think your monster kitten has reached her teenage stage, and now she’s going to see how many of your buttons she can push and what she can get away with.
I have more of those blue-purple bottle-brush wildflowers in my yard than I’ve ever had before. Still don’t have a name for them. And now also among them some very pale lavender delicate little flowers, buttercups and a few dandelions. Also, the azalea bushes are all blooming purple, red and pink. They put out many more flower than I expected because they were looking sparse. I should cut them back a lot when they’re finished blooming so maybe they’ll grow back bushy again? Some of them are about 40 years old.
I have some tall shoots of a weed or grass sprouting among the purple wildflowers that’s making the yard look wild, but I don’t want to ask my yard guy to mow until the flowers finish blooming.
A friend gave me a pot of weird daisies, unnaturally bright orange, pink, and yellow, that I’m keeping on the deck and tending. The little note that came with them said they can bloom all summer if you treat them right, so I’ll try. I do love flowers.
You seem to have all kinds growing everywhere around your place.
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love to see all the wonderful wildflowers. best thing, though, are the photos of the elusive swedish tiger! 🙃
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Hi Mandolin mama!
She’s hard to get photographs of though 🙂
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Hi cats working!
You might be right 🙂 🙂
I’m searching the net for those flowers but at the moment I’ve only found autumn flowering ones That would fit that description 🙂 I’ll keep on looking though 🙂
Your garden sounds like my kind of garden, I do like when it looks wild 🙂
Now days daisies come in all kinds of colours but I’ve only seen the more usual myself and yes they keep on flowering, just remember to remove the ones that flowered and more will come.
Azaleas don’t like it here, too sandy I think but I do have one rhododendron that insists on living so I do water it every now and again when it’s warm and sunny.
Yes I do have all kinds of flowers in bloom now 🙂 Helps the bumblebees now when they don’t have much else. I should get more autumn flowering plants as well so it could help them before hibernating through winter.Nature is for once a bit behind but now I see white wood anemones and a few other wild flowers starting as well, it’s usually the other way round 🙂
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