Nasty arctic winds.

 

Just as cold this morning as it was yesterday, -6C (21,2F) and that was one night too many for the annuals I put in the greenhouse to see how well they would do if the night would be as cold as that.  Still a bitterly cold arctic wind blowing so it didn’t feel as it was 10C (50F) during the day. According to the weather people on tv that will change from tomorrow night and I do hope they’re right about that! I do however smile by myself when watching my neighbour scraping ice from his car when going to work in the morning 🙂 🙂 🙂

The morning walk was quite nice despite the wind, as we say here there’s no bad weather only bad clothes, so I had a thick sweater under my anorak and half of the walk was in the forest where the wind couldn’t reach us anyway 🙂 Lots of deer out in the fields now and I could hear geese but not see any. Lots of small birds flying around though but too fast this morning for me to be able to take any photos of them.

The first of the two cherry bushes, well they aren’t much of bushes yet but I guess they’ll be in a couple of years, is arriving tomorrow. Of course I’ll most likely not be at home since I’m going to my job coach, so I do hope the driver stops at my place and not at any neighbours home. This delivery company seems to bet it right every time though and even our postal service is much better now after I threatened them by reporting them to the police 🙂 🙂 🙂 For a while they just tossed them off at some place in the village, never here though and I got a bit tired of looking for it every time they just placed it somewhere.

The second cherry bush will arrive around a week or so from now, good thing it’ll take some time because like always I do have a problem figuring out where it should be placed 🙂 🙂 I hope I can see what has died during this last winter so I can use that spot 🙂 🙂 I also bought two red currant bushes (once again bush is a bit too much to call them because they’re just two sticks and roots at the moment 🙂 🙂 🙂 ) I have already dug up one spot so it will be ready on Thursday when it will start to be a bit warmer, I still have no idea where to plant the second one 🙂 🙂 🙂  I really don’t have an organised garden in any way so I tend to just plant things where they fit 🙂 So if a flower turns up in a flower bed and I want to keep it, then it’ll stay where it started to grow. So instead of having all berry bushes in one area I’ll just plant them where I think they’ll thrive in the long run.

These last photos show what’s flowering in my garden right now. I have Yellow wood anemone in two different spots.

Corydalis cava and the other Yellow wood anemones. The corydalis spreads like wildfire but as soon as it has flowered and the seeds are ripe it just withers down.

The White wood anemone.

It is time to have that last cup of tea for the day and I’ll see if there’s anything worth watching on tv, I doubt that though. I’ll go to Falköping tomorrow and I think I’ll stop at a grocery store on my way home to buy some custard, yes I can easily do custard myself but why when the one I can make ready made is really good 🙂 I think I’ll bake myself a rhubarb crisp. I can’t harvest much more than perhaps two stalks from each rhubarb since the plants are so young but I have four plants so it’ll be enough for a small one I think 🙂

The normal coloured Checkered lily.

The white one is always a couple of days later.

It looks like the Cherry plum flower has survived the cold nights 🙂

Tulipa Tarda.

Have a great day!

4 responses to “Nasty arctic winds.”

  1. Caryn O'Keefe Avatar
    Caryn O’Keefe

    I’d have kept the beach rose. Some of it, at least. Here the invasive rose is the Japanese multiflora rose. I have it in parts of my yard and have only managed to permanently kill one of them by repeatedly chopping it back as soon as it grew some leaves. The birds don’t really love the little hips and leave them for next to last choice. Final choice is privet hedge berries which they only eat in early spring when there is nothing else left and no insects yet. Both these plants are extremely invasive.

    The little quince that I raised from seed has so many flowers this year. It’s still under 2 feet tall, though. The parent quince also has many buds even though the rabbits stripped a lot of bark off many of the limbs.

    Weather here has been sunny and on the cool side. We do have slight drought conditions but they’re predicting cold and rainy for the weekend. Of course. 😀

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    1. Christer. Avatar

      Hi Caryn!

      I actually have one more and I had already planned to remove this one because it had started to spread, thorny ones as well but in a different way than the Japanese rose, gazillions of small but oh so sharp thorns 🙂
      The Japanese roses I have doesn’t spread at all?! They just grow very long and only have a few thorns that are impossible to see before they get stuck in the hands and arms 🙂 🙂 You’re right, the birds seems to think it is too much job to get those few seeds to even bother with them 🙂

      I guess it fears that it will die so best to just get as many seeds as possible before it happens 🙂 🙂 Mine has become rather high now but so far only flowers and no fruit. I removed my Japanese quince because it suddenly felt the need to spread via its roots. That one did give fruits but tiny tiny ones and they usually went bad really quick.

      Holiday here tomorrow and for once the weather will be really good. Normally Walpurgis night and May first are rainy and cold 🙂 🙂 🙂 Could it be a sign that the world will end? 🙂 🙂 🙂

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      1. Caryn O'Keefe Avatar
        Caryn O’Keefe

        I’ve seen the deer eating whatever fruit the big quince produces. I think they don’t wait for them to get bigger than grapes and take them as they’re browsing the leaves and twigs. They must be like giraffes and have lips and tongues that can’t feel the thorns.

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      2. Christer. Avatar

        Considering how hard those fruits are it’s hard to believe anything would eat them 🙂 🙂 Also they must taste like wood 🙂 🙂 Deer do have the oddest tastebuds 🙂

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