The forest owner cut down three birch trees around the old root cellar. My neighbours will now have evening sun but I’ve seen them every day for 26 years so it looks so empty now.

I had written a really long post and just had to leave the computer for a few minutes and during that time something decided it would just delete the entire post!!! I tried to find it and this note showed that the post didn’t look the same now as before and would I like to restore it? Yes I said and pressed the yes button and nothing happened. Quite annoying and this post will not be the same and probably much shorter than it was before.  Anyway, tonight was the first time in a long while we didn’t have night frost and the weather sites say we will not have night frost again any time soon, so let’s hope that’s right. 

We’ve had a rather wonderful day here, summer warm I would call it with 21C (69,8F) . Now for those who don’t know it summers here in Scandinavia are usually short, cool and rainy even though this has changed lately. If we reached 25C (77F) it was considered a heat wave and it usually didn’t last for more than a week or so. I can’t say I long for those cool and rainy summers but we do need more rain now. I moved out most of my citrus trees from the greenhouse this morning and placed them where they mostly stand in shadow because just like us humans who have spent all winter indoor they too get burned by the sun when we place them outside.

I also moved out the two Kaki fruit seedlings (a Persimmon relative) and the pawpaw seedling I had by the kitchen window, they will now open the night in the greenhouse just in case they are wrong with the night frost being over.  I think I got the wrong thing when I got that cherry bush, it is the same variety but actually a tree instead. It will not be that high in the end anyway but to make sure it won’t I’ll cut of the top after it has bloomed because it actually has a lot of buds already 🙂 I’ll top it in early autumn when it slowly starts to prepare for the coming winter. When I plant new things in my garden I mostly think of the wild bees so they have something to eat. I can’t remember when we had this many bumblebees and solitary bees in my garden, they need help and if I can get some fruit/berries that’s a nice bonus for me 🙂 I think that’s because we don’t have any honeybees in the village now days. I’ve read that honeybees outcompete wild bees because they’re so many and that starves out the wild bees. 

I also brought out the two last plants I had in the cool cellar today, Cape Gooseberries. I took some cuttings from them and then I cut them down pretty hard and planted them near the new cherry tree. I’ve covered them now in the beginning so they sun won’t burn them. They are of course not hardy here but I’ll save some of the cuttings  and sow new ones next winter. I realised how hot it is already now in the greenhouse so I must either put up some kind of screen on the roof of the greenhouse or paint it on the outside. One can buy ready made paint or make it oneself with powdered lime and sour milk. Paint on the outside and it’ll last one summer. Now I need to find some powdered lime, back in the day we could buy that at a chemist but I don’t think those stores exists any more over here.

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and I might have a couple of hard bread with blue cheese, spotted sausages and edam cheese on to of that 🙂 

In my garden right now. this is Cowslip.

Tulipa turkestanica.

Tulipa tarda.

Yellow wood anemone with a solitary bee.

Yellow star of Bethlehem, the Swedish name for it would be something like spring onion in English 🙂

Have a great day!