I’ve felt a bit cold today.

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I’ve felt that the day has been a bit chilly even though it almost reached 20C (68F). I think it’s mostly because I have been tired all day since I didn’t sleep that well during the night. I have no idea why though. I did warm up a bit when I visited my friend in the garden center though. They’ve been closed for four weeks and they’ll open for the new season tomorrow again. This one is so much bigger than the one I had and it was completely empty of new plants so they have a big job filling it up before they open tomorrow morning 🙂

They did have some plants left in the greenhouse and I I took a look and like a scavenger brought a few plants with me home 🙂 Just a few since I’m planning on sowing new perennials this winter. Now they need to stay in shadow (as much as possible) so they don’t get burned by the sun, just like us they get burned easily if they have been indoors for a long time without direct sunlight hitting them. If You buy plants in a garden center when they stand in a green house always ask if they have been standing indoors all the time or been outside because then You’ll know how to treat them when You get back home.

There’s so little water in the creek now that it’s early visible in some places.

I now have cattle just outside my garden and with them the flies have returned, no biting ones but those annoying ones that do whatever they can to annoy us. Trying to get in to our nostrils and ears or just fly around in front of the face until You wish You had a spray can with pesticides so You could just spray and get rid of them 🙂 🙂 🙂 The problem is that most would hit ourselves and there’s no end to how many flies that now hangs around just waiting to the chance to take the others place 🙂 🙂 🙂

There were also more flies on our morning walk today, not as many as we use to have but enough to force me to wear the hood on my hoodie. I could hear lots of animals moving away when we walked so that could be the reason there were so many, it was most likely wild hogs and a few deer being a hotel for those flies until we came along. This has not been a year for biting flies, I’ve only seen a few and only been bitten once. Also we have very few wasps/ Yellowjackets this year but those wasps that is do eat a lot on my apples before they fall to the ground. I normally give fallen apples to my neighbours but this year they are all half eaten before they hit the ground.

Sometimes when one has bought soil something starts to grow in the pot that has nothing to do with us. Normally tomato seeds that survived the sewage plant. So when I first saw this one I thought it was a tomato. Now I’m not sure because the leafs doesn’t smell anything. The only other thing this can be is a potato plant and since we don’t eat potatoes tomatoes this seed must have survived on of those industrial compost makers. I’ll plant this in a pot and when it hopefully flowers we’ll know what it is 🙂 🙂 🙂

It’ll be warmer tomorrow so I’ll mow the lawn while the grass is fairly short. They’re guessing we’ll have sunshine tomorrow, especially in the afternoon but we really need rain, even some of my trees now look sad and I really can’t water them all. I only water the newly planted plants so they survive. People who knows gardening usually say that one should water trees and bushes once a week and then at least 10 litres (slightly more than 2,5 gallons US) because just enough for the day You’ll teach the tree/ bush to never develop the roots that should grown down to the ground water. That might be true but if there’s drought and there’s a risk having no water at all to think like that might just make You teach the tree to die. When the rain comes those deep roots will start to grow.

The English walnut isn’t big but it lives, so I’ve started to remove nettles and other weeds from it so the sunlight can reach it.
The Flowering quince decided to flower a second time. I do hope this one stays calm and doesn’t spread via its roots like the Japanese since I just have removed. No thorns on this one and that’s a huge plus 🙂

I’ve just had my last cup of tea for the day and there’s nothing but re-runs on tv so I think I’ just have an early night today.

Have a great day!

I never heard the thunder.

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We’ve had a really wonderful day here today, just enough warm with a lukewarm wind blowing, mostly sunshine but also some clouds every now and again. We must have had rain during the night because the grass was a bit more wet than it would have been if it only was morning dew. According to my phone we also had thunder in the middle of the night but even I having the window open all night I slept through it without noticing it 🙂

After we had come home from our morning walk I started to continue to remove the old stump and as many roots as I could from the old Japanese quince. There’s still lots of big roots left in the ground but what ever will grow up from them will be thin twigs and those are easy to remove until they finally gives up. I’ve removed almost all flowerbeds in my garden but this one will stay, I’ve even started to make it slightly bigger. Also I’ve planted some young perennials in to it, well the Kankakee mallow isn’t small but the others are.

I’m visiting my friend in the gardencenter tomorrow and see if they have anything I want. Nothing unusual as I had back in the days but more common flowers, I really don’t want to fuss with plants just so that they barely survives 🙂 🙂 🙂 Easy and beautiful is my new goal 🙂 🙂 Plus I bought seeds on sale online so anything growing from those will be in that flowerbed and any leftovers will be planted here and there in the garden and what survives our winters and the dogs running around like crazy over them will be welcomed 🙂

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and I might also have a bowl of cornflakes. I think it actually is the milk I’m after, cornflakes do after all not taste that much 🙂 I have to admit that I pour cinnamon all over it so it could be the combination milk and cinnamon 🙂 🙂

So the Japanese quince is gone and now I’ve put some perennials in the bed.
The Kankakee mallow stands just beside the white mulberry tree that died but started to grow from the roots again 🙂

Have a great day!

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Today my neighbours oldest daughter (I think she’s six years old or perhaps five) gave me three eggs from their chickens and for a second or two I was thinking if I should by one of those cheap incubators to let the eggs hatch. Then I realised that I in that case had to fix a hen house and net so I could make a yard for them to all around in. They are a mix of a rather rare Swedish breed and a Japanese silk hen so they aren’t big but still. Also how would I do during winter if it gets really cold? I know some people actually have them in big cages but those are nasty expensive and does hen small? 🙂 🙂 🙂

So I’ll probably use them when I’ll make pancakes next time but it was a fun thought for a while 🙂 Here in Sweden, well in the entire Europe, the rules says if You want to call Yourself an organic farmer (we call it ecological farmer) hen must go outside and always have a rooster amongst them. So they say that seven out of ten eggs from those hen is fertilised and if one put them in an incubator they’ll hatch. Perhaps better to buy those eggs the day I feel I can take care of them properly.

It’s a bit warmer today and between the sunshine and clouds we had a huge shower passing by. Gave me a little more water in my rainwater barrels but didn’t do much for nature and my garden. I have a few flies flying around in the cottage. They are big ones and really don’t want to be here so I tries to let them outside without getting the annoying other flies inside. Not easy because every Tim I try to help them outside they fly the opposite direction and the annoying ones then can come indoors. Not that there are many hanging around anyway but one annoying fly in the cottage is many to many 🙂 🙂 🙂

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day. I brought it with me to the computer and I absolutely forgot about it 🙂 I’ll get my new mattress pad next Tuesday and I do hope it is as good as I think it is. Now when I’m not working staying at home waiting for it it won’t be as annoying as it usually is, I mean it will be delivered some tome between 8 am and 5 pm and when working that’s just so irritating, if it comes early should I ten go to work after? Well I wouldn’t but anyway 🙂 🙂 🙂

Have a great day!

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One can still see where the road once were when this was a forest.

Sunny and cool early in the morning while we have our morning walks and mixed for the rest of the day, kind of perfect really 🙂 A bit on the chilly side during the day, below 20C (68F) but warmer days will come they’re guessing 🙂

I got tired of walking the same way every morning today so I took a chance and walked out to the bog. The grass is high and ticks just loves grass, especially if it isn’t too wet. Yarrow is a very common flower here and I’ve heard  that ticks don’t like the smell of them so I picked some and rubbed them towards the dogs bodies. I didn’t find a single tick on them when we came home (plus I checked them after passing the first part of high grass as well). I can’t say it really works but no ticks when the environment is right for them sort of say it does work.

So the dogs were happy to finally get out there and so was I 🙂 We heard deer jumping away from us in the forest and a raven warned about us walking around there but besides that it was really quiet. For once we didn’t see nor hear any wild hogs and that’s always nice. Last summer this area was full go lingonberries but now there’s only a few so the drought reached them as well even though there’s water in the bog.

Yesterday when I was removing some stinging nettles I found some raspberry bushes, I thought the more invasive plants around them finally killed them but they’re still there. So they had some ripe berries that I’ve now placed in the freezer together with the other berries I’ve picked, those berries weren’t many enough to use by themselves so when I finally make jam of them it’ll be interesting to taste it 🙂 I also have lots of plums in the freezer from last autumn so I better clean up some jars and make jam from them.

I’m about to remove as best as I can my Japanese quince bush. I’ve had it for almost 15 years and it never gives any bigger fruits and suddenly last year it started to spread via its roots, so I felt it was time to do something about it. I’ve cut it down to the ground and started to remove as many smaller roots I can. I think it might be impossible to remove the bigger roots totally but it will at least be easier to keep it so small that It won’t spread anywhere else, easier than with the Blackthorn since the quince is planted in a flowerbed in a sea of grass around it.

To my rather big surprise the peach tree still lives and actually looks almost healthy 🙂
The darker green blob is the Japanese quince or was to be honest.
Now I’ve cut it down to the ground, getting those roots up will not be fun.
I sowed Dahlias from a package that says it contains many colours. It looks like all will have yellow flowers 🙂 I had wished for other colours since so many flowers in my garden is yellow.

It is time for that last cup of tea and perhaps a sandwich or two. I doubt there will be anything on tv that I haven’t watched since all they do now is showing re-runs 🙂

Have a great day!

I can hear the storm roaring through the forest.

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I woke up in the middle of night hearing strong winds blowing and heavy rain falling and wondered if the storm had arrived early but it calmed down pretty soon so I guess this was something else. I woke up a few hours later and the world was totally quiet, no wind or anything and since we all had woken up, I don’t know how they do it but both dogs and cats always know when we do wake up 🙂 🙂 🙂 So I let them outside for a while and it was quite nice outside.

The storm did arrive before noon and it came from a direction that made it touch my garden and cottage and the wind was pretty bad. My Chinese catalpa even bend to the wind and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. The wind now comes from southwest and stays away from my home but I have a window open so I can hear the roar when it passes through the forest. I like that sound but I like it even better when it doesn’t reach my cottage 🙂

We’ve had a few heavy showers today and I guess more will come because the winds will continue to blow all night and all day tomorrow and they bring showers with them. Thankfully we had our morning walk before it started but I doubt we’ll have one tomorrow, walking in the forest with winds like these can be rather dangerous. Trees might not fall but pines easily will have big branches break off and it isn’t nice to get one of those in the head 🙂 🙂 🙂

So we have done very little today, I’ve done some laundry and picked some berries in the garden and put them in the freezer, I even watered my Himalayan Cedar because it stands on a mount of dirt that easily dries out when the wind blows and the sun shines which it actually has done a lot today, from next year it will have to survive without any help from me because by then it should have roots going deep enough or wide enough to manage it anyway.

The Leeks are coming fine despite that I sowed them too late, forgot about them so almost all dies and then they were covered by potato leafs 🙂
This year the butterfly bush will flower before most butterflies die 🙂 Last year it survived a frosty night and didn’t flower until October 🙂 🙂

It is time for that last cup of tea and I’m thinking of frying a couple of sausages. I don’t have anything else to have with it so I might cut them and put them on a sandwich with a strong cheese 🙂

Have a great day!

A storm will pay us a visit tomorrow.

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I saved this photo yesterday so I could show it today 🙂

Grey and dull most of the day and just enough warm so it has been a rather nice day. It had rained during the night, not much just enough to make the vegetation wet so the dogs were rather wet when they came in from the garden just after we had woken up. we did get a couple of showers during the day as well but they looked worse than they were to be honest, the water barrels didn’t get any bigger addition of water.

My Easter cactus loves it outside and it has been in bloom for quite some time.

I drove to the super market rather early in the morning so I didn’t have to deal with lots of people who never knows what they want to have and no long lines at the cashier. I had written a long list of what I most possibly needed and put question marks after those I just wanted 🙂 Well the list is still on the living room table so I didn’t get some things I possibly wanted but I did get one or two things I never thought Wanted 🙂 Like a branch cutter, looks like a big secateur and this one also had telescope arms so I could reach higher up in the trees. I’ve already tried it and removed dead branches on one of my apple trees and several on the Hungarian lilac.

I dug out an area in from of the big box to plants my rhubarb seedlings. Not too smart I think since I now will have problems reaching in to the box 🙂 🙂 🙂
Finally the beans are showing 🙂 Only four plants have survived but I’ll at least have some this autumn 🙂
I’ll have more peas than I can eat in a year I think 🙂 🙂 🙂

I do like most of my trees and bushes (except for the common lilac) but sometimes they grow so dense that neither light nor rain can reach the ground and that’s why I bought this cutter. It’ll also come in handy when I need to cut down my wild roses because trying a secateur on those is most likely the closest I’ll ever come to try and kill myself, those thorns are big and horrible 🙂 🙂 🙂 The wind outside is getting stronger and tomorrow we will be hit by a storm. Thankfully the worst of it will hit Norway but some will come here too. I do hope we also get some of the rain but one never knows.

It is time for that last cup of tea and today I was baking French rolls but they flattened out instead and became really good teacakes instead 🙂

The Kankakee mallow is now much higher than I am 🙂 🙂 🙂

The Jerusalem artichokes are even higher and shows buds, that usually doesn’t happen until late August.

Have a great day!

Misty morning and spider webs.

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We had a wonderful morning here, just below 10C (50F), morning mist and a sun slowly rising. If I hadn’t just woken up I would have taken our morning walk there and then. however newly awake, quite tired and both I and the animals needed some food before we went out. So by the time we were ready the mist was gone but it was still sunny and cool.

We walked the same way we’ve done lately since the grass is way too high in the forest since it’s only us walking there and we haven’t been there for a while now. Plus the grass was really wet after the rain we had during the night so it would also most likely be full of ticks. Only two flies were out to pester us but as soon as we walked in to shadow it was a bit too cool for them to follow 🙂 🙂 We did however see two Roe deer on our walk and we haven’t seen any when we’ve been out walking in all summer I think.

We actually had several showers today, not heavy and not long lived but if we’ll get more as they are guessing we will the ground is now a bit softer so that the water has a chance on sinking down into the ground instead of just running down through the garden and down to the bog that starts more or less behind the old garage and dog yard.

No need to mow the lawn yet so instead I dug out some space to plant the rhubarb seedlings I sowed in spring. The sand beneath the grass was so dry that one c an find more water in a desert 🙂 🙂 I also mixed in some compost from my smallest compost, a black one that stands n legs and can be rotated and should be rotated once a day I think. The fun thing is that since one is rotating it the compost becomes sort of round and to be honest all those round pieces looked like dog poo 🙂 🙂 🙂 I need to empty at least two of the three other composts I have, the third one I think still has a family of mice living in it 🙂 🙂

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I’ve already eaten so I won’t have anything with it. The summer apples are now falling of the tree so tomorrow I’ll buy things I need to make an apple pie 🙂

I have two small Ginkgo trees growing in my garden, this one has huge leafs and the other one quite small.

Have a great day!

Potato tomatoes :-)

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We’ve had all kinds of weather today, cool and cloudy morning, sunny and hot on and off during the day and even some rain plus thunder passing by both south and north of the village. not even close to what they had guessed when it comes to the rain but they did actually tell us not to trust that part of their guessing since one never knows where the showers would end up falling.

I haven’t done much today except for watering the plants outside and put the two Pawpaw seedlings I found in the cool cellar outside. A good day to do that since the sun now mostly has been covered by clouds. If You want to put potted plants or any plant that hasn’t met sunshine yet never put it in directly sunlight because it will burn just like us when we stay in the sunshine without any protection. Let it stay in the shadows for a week. That is still a bit problematic here since there at the moment only one spot around the cottage that won’t get hit by the sun some time of the day. The one place I do have also have most of the slugs that still is alive in this drought so that’s not a good idea 🙂 🙂 🙂

It is so dry here now that the little rain we’ve had only helps the grass to stay green but not grow 🙂 There’s always an upside to everything 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ve bought both vegetable seeds and flower seeds on sale now because I have no idea what kind of economy I’ll have next year. They were on sale because they are soon to expire date wise. Seeds usually are viable many years after the date that’s printed on them and these costed half of what the other companies sell their seeds for during sales so I thought it best to buy while I know I can. I think however I need to make my little vegetable patch bigger and perhaps try to revive one or two of the old flowerbeds 🙂 🙂 I’ll also empty a big wooden box I now mostly use as a huge trashcan, fill it with soil and compost and grow vegetables in that one too.

Two male Bullfinches. The two females hid in the vegetation beside the road.

I’ve found some, what some call, a few potatoes tomatoes 🙂 (very poisonous so don’t try and eat them). Most modern varieties of potatoes don’t give seeds, they’ve managed to select that part away somehow. Good thing they have to be honest because if those seeds germinate and one of them aren’t resistant towards the potato wart disease, or black scab, one is in big trouble. Over here one need to report it to the authorities and after that one can’t grow potatoes in that soul or even nearby for well over twenty years. One can however sow them in a bucket. One can get the most odd varieties, some blue or red and I’ve read about a man who got one big black potato. If they would get the disease one can just seal the bucket and let the authorities destroy the soil.

The Monsterkitten found something really interesting today.

Even Malkolm came to inspect what it was.
Turns out it was a frog who now lives safe from the cat 🙂

I’ve tried a few times to sow those seeds but it is really hard to know when they are ripe because the fruits stays green and if they fall to the ground it’s hard to find them. Also never have potatoes and tomatoes close to each other, they are so closely related thatchy give and take different diseases from each other. The sun is shining outside right now at the same time we’re having a light rain. We used to say that if the sun shone and the rain fell we would have rain the day after. Never checked if that’s true though 🙂

ow I have five smaller Pawpaws. Have no idea what I’ll do with them during winter

I now have five smaller Pawpaws and have no idea what I’ll do with them during winter since mice seems to love eating them.

I can try to let them stay outside beside the two bigger ones I already have in the garden. Lots of cover to protect them from the unpredictable winters we nowadays have.

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day and then check what’s on tv. Probably re-runs on every channel I’m afraid.

Have You ever tried to eat the fruits from the Fuchsia? They are edible and most of them taste a bit like blueberries. I ate this one a bit too early so it was a bit watery.
Potato tomatoes 🙂

Have a great day!

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So I’m again unemployed and since I can’t write anything about what happened since I signed the paper that says I’m not allowed to write anything about the company that can show it in a bad way all I can say is that it wasn’t any fault from my side. I really liked all the employees and will miss them. I feel fine about it all though so now I’ll be searching for a new job, well I’ve done that for a while but now I’ll intensify the search.

I won’t be able to see the haunted tree next year when they’ll get green again.

So today was sort of my first vacation day for the summer and even though it mostly has been cold and a bit warm it still has been rather nice. We’ve had thunder passing by north of us but not especially close and for a few seconds the wind grew strong and some rain fell. Not as much as they had guessed but at least something. I had been out watering an hour before it arrived so the water from the sky should at least on those places have sunken down in to the ground. We might get more rain but the odds are low that it’ll fall around here.

I went to grocery shop at the store in the village where I used to work so now I think I won’t have to do it again until late next week, it depends on how much milk I use, I hate being without any milk in my home 🙂 🙂 On my way there I saw that they had sown corn in a big field, not especially common here since it needs more warm weather for a longer period of time than what we usually have here and it also needs way too much water, so I wonder how it could look as great as it did since we have had a drought here for quite some time.

These two bumblebees were sleeping on the thistle and when Malkolm came a bit too close one of them raised a leg as to say don’t come to close 🙂

Once again I was surprised about how little flies we have here now, I could walk the entire morning walk without being annoyed by any. At the same time I heard someone say that he wondered why they suddenly had so many flies since they didn’t have any before 🙂 🙂 So I guess that all our flies must have moved to them instead 🙂 🙂 🙂 I don’t mind though 🙂 🙂

I’ve bought seeds to this flower, Lythrum salicaria or purple-loosestrife, one doesn’t want seeds from the wild because it can be really invasive I’ve heard but the garden varieties should be calmer. I’m going to have it in the root zone if I’m successful with the germination.

It’s time to go downstairs because I have a bread baking in the machine. I’m already longing for that first slice with some cheese on 🙂 The dogs can smell that it is close to be done so as soon as I move my feet they’ll run to the stairs 🙂 🙂 They know they’ll get both a piece of bread and a slice of cheese like they always do and it is a good thing I already have a pot of tea waiting 🙂

My little Red oak (or so I believe anyway, could be some other kind of hardy north american oak).

Have a great day!

Finally a bit cooler.

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Sugar pea flower. Lots of peas to harvest now 🙂

Cloudy and much cooler here at the moment, of all the rain they guessed would fall nothing has fallen around here, now they’re guessing it will start to rain from Friday and over the weekend. I’ll believe it if it happens 🙂 🙂 🙂

Sand cherries. I need to be fast to pick them because birds and the dogs loves them too. Not many and they’re small so I think I’ll just eat them 🙂

I’ve been bitten by some insect today, I didn’t have the itching when I woke up but just before going to work.It doesn’t look like a mosquito bite because it has swollen up pretty much but horse fly bites and from other blood drinking flies usually hurts quite bad when it happens. We have so few mosquitoes this summer so I’m sort of surprised that the one we seem to have found me 🙂 🙂 🙂

Nothing much is happening here but even though the ground is extremely dry the plants seems to love it. Well they do look a bit sad when the sun is hitting them but as soon as they stand in the shadow again they go back to looking normal. I do water the most vulnerable of them all but that’s it but I need that rain so the water barrels fill up again because there’s not much water in them at the moment.

Kirengeshoma koreana. Seems to survive anything and it gets just bigger and bigger.
To be honest, I like the bud better than the actual flower 🙂
Nepeta sibirica, The Swedish name for it is Big dragonflower.flowers like crazy and it will continue until the frost takes them.
A white and blue Cornflower.

It is time for that last cup of tea and after that I’ll see if there’s anything worth watching on tv.

Have a great day!

I’ve done my chores.

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I mowed the lawn in the garden yesterday and planned to mow the outside parts today. Turns out my neighbours had mowed most of that so I think it took ten minutes to do the rest 🙂 I also, like always did the laundry, dinner for the coming week and a bread in the machine.

Can You see the little lizard?

I did bake a bread yesterday as well but it was an almost total failure I’m afraid 🙂 🙂 I tried cheese again and also mostly used light flour plus a bit too much water. Well I toasted a few slices and then it turned out to taste pretty amazing. So for dinner I made warm sandwiches with mackerel in tomato sauce and covered it with a strong cheese. I haven’t checked how the bread turned out today but I played it safe with ingredients I know work in the machine 🙂 🙂

The man had made a huge compost with stones. Filling it wasn’t a problem but bringing up the compost must have been a horrible job 🙂 🙂
I would like a root cellar like that!

It has been a bit cooler today and we even had some rain drizzling down from the sky, not that it was noticeable on the ground but it did cool down the air a bit more. They’re guessing we’ll get plenty of rain the coming week but they did that last week as well and we barely had any 🙂 🙂 🙂 So we’ll know better next weekend I guess 🙂 🙂

For the rest of the day I’ve done very little. I’ve watered some plants in the garden and a few in the cottage. The almost white pawpaws are now slowly turning green and as soon as they are green I’ll place them in the shadow outside. I think I’ll have them in a window where There’s no radiator close during winter since they seem to be delicious for mice. I had some mice in the cool cellar last winter, that is until I let the monsterkitten play down there every now and again. After that no mice ate anything 🙂 🙂 🙂

It is time for a cup of tea and perhaps I’ll try a slice of the new bread as well just to be sure it’s ok 🙂

Have a great day!

A visit at an Arboretum and two found pots in the cool cellar :-)

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Hardy Fuchsia. In some countries around the world it is forbidden to plants since it can be really invasive. Not here in Sweden though where it freezes down during winter and only the roots survive and then it grows up again every summer.

Today I met a friend at a place called Alphems Arboretum, where a mailman around 1903 started to sow seeds of different and rare tree but also perennials since his wife loved flowers. Almost all perennials are gone but the trees still stands. He also loved oddly shaped stones so when he was out bringing letters to the area he also looked at stones with odd shapes. There’s actually tons of info on this on the net but only in Swedish I’m afraid.

We went to this cafe/ restaurant and the prices could scare an angry badger away but I have to say that the gluten free meatball sandwich with beetroot salad was truly yummy 🙂

He also walked around in all creeks and waters in the area barefooted so he could feel if any stones he walked on had odd shapes. Then in the evening he went out with his wheelbarrow and collected the stones, he never did this during the day so that people wouldn’t see him and call him crazy 🙂 🙂 :-)Even though he only went to school for a short while he later on learned to write in both English and German so he could order seeds from all over the world.

So this is the inspiration to the Dwarves house. Just remove the room to the far right and put athatched roof on and there it is.

In 1936 Disney employed a Swede as the Art Director and the first film was Snow white and the seven dwarfs. The Dwarves house is actually inspired by the house the mailman house that he slowly built from one kitchen only to a three room cottage. The cottage had its third room after the film was made though but it was the inspiration because  The Swede Gustav Tenngren grew up not far away from that place 🙂

I think this was called the dead road, all stones You can see in these photos were carried there by himself or sometimes given to him by others who didn’t think he was crazy 🙂

The tall trees was unfortunately impossible to photograph but there grew amongst all the other trees a pink flowered Snowdrop tree, didn’t even know they could have pink flowers 🙂 Just before I drove away tho the arboretum I went don’t to my cool cellar and looked at two pots I had left there because the Pawpaw seedling had been chewed off by a mouse during winter. At first I thought it was some kind of very pale mushroom that grew in the pot but then I saw it was the “dead” little tree in each pot that suddenly had started to grow and since there was no light on they were pale white 🙂 🙂 🙂

Had it not been for my friend I might have stepped on this bush, Cotoneaster dammeri.
Most names are gone from my brain but this is some kind of honeysuckle.

So I brought them up and placed them light but not in the sunshine. The soil was a bit damp in one pot but more or less bone dry in the other. The thing is that we tend to think a plant that hasn’t had water in the long run will love to be drenched but they don’t because that’s when we kill most of our plants, so I’m now slowly, slowly watering the pots so that they’ll have a chance to start functioning again before I can water themm like usual. That can take a few days before that happens. The problem is that they now are out of sync with how and when they should have started to grow but that’s a later problem 🙂

There are a few more photos that might be shown tomorrow or when I remember it 🙂

Have a great day!

The two pots I noticed in the cool cellar. They are now slowly turning green like they should be 🙂