My Rosemary survived the winter :-)

My car is almost clean after all this rain we’ve had lately πŸ™‚ and tit will stay clean for at least this week out because we’re getting more of it. It’s also still reasonable warm so the only thing that bugs me now is that mosquitoes will become many more, so far I’ve only had three of them trying to drink my blood.

The old strawberry plants flower now despite being trampled by both dogs a a little monster πŸ™‚

Columbines comes in most shapes and colours.

We’re having our annual road association meeting this Saturday and I’m usually chosen to be the secretary of the meeting so I needed to write the meeting protocol today. Always a good thing to give angst but to my very big surprise I had already done it πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Normally it is the angst that kicks me to do it, so I think I’ll do the same this year πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Now days the meetings are calm but back in the days they were feeding the rage in people and a meeting could take hours, mostly because there always were people who wanted to discuss other things than the road. All of those are gone so now days a meeting usually takes fifteen minutes and after that we drink coffee and chat πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

A Nanking cherry and there are several more on both the bushes. Unfortunately it seems to be easily hit by different pests and my two bushes look so sad.

The first strawberry! These plants have been a bit odd since they usually only give berries in autumn, looks like that has changed now.

People are normally not interested in coming to these meetings, as long as things works and they don’t have to pay any money they just don’t care. Now we’re also having the meeting on a Saturday, the day after our national day so I doubt many will show up. Since we now days also only get our mail every second day most people doesn’t even check their mailbox more than once a week so my guess is that most people not even knows we’re having the meeting πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

New growth on my hardy rosemary plant! Normally rosemary plants die here if I just would think winter but this is supposed to be the hardiest there is and so it looks πŸ™‚

Time for that last cup of tea and tomorrow is the last work day for the week. After that I’ll have one full week and the week after that a short one again because of midsummer. Midsummer eve isn’t a holiday at all but since they place it on a Friday every year and it most likely is a bigger day than Christmas Eve here and no one wants to work that day it’s treated like a holiday and we’re also getting full pay that day. I’ll write something about our folklore and traditions here that week.

Jerusalem artichoke. A beautiful but rather weedy perennial sunflower (almost if not all perennial sunflowers are weeds, spreads like wildfire to be honest). There’s only one variety that manages to flower here and it is called Bianca.
Our wild Wood even. Each flower doesn’t last for long but it keeps on making more. Unfortunately the seeds have small hooks, like velcro, so it spreads really easy. Also easy to keep control of it since it doesn’t spread via the roots.
New leafs on the Gingko.
So it is tree peony leafs that shows but I doubt it will give any flowers this year.

Have a great day!

8 thoughts on “My Rosemary survived the winter :-)

  1. Christer, I was curious about how many people are in the road association and shat is there to discuss…maintenance, perhaps? The columbines are lovely and great lighting too. How nice to have some long holidays to look forward too. Mosquitoes always found me as well when I was outdoors doing yard work in VA. Hope you get a nice crop of strawberries.

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    1. Hi Beatrice!Anyone who owns property in the village is a member, but those renting but still lives here isn’t.

      Yes maintenance of the road and nothing else and it is surprising how that subject can make people go insane πŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„ not that bad nowdays since more outsiders have moved to the village.

      Mosquitoes always find us, no idea to try and avoid them πŸ˜„πŸ˜„

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  2. This reminds me of when I went on a trip and asked my parents to check on the houseplants. I had a nice potted rosemary and I asked them to not overwater it. They didn’t water it at all and it died. πŸ₯²

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