Floral Bliss #77

This week I'll share with you my treasure - Meconopsis betonicifolia - Sinivaleunikko.
I got the plant as a present from  photographer Teija Tuisku who photographed
my garden for a Finnish garden magazine 8-10 years ago.
The plant survives but does not spread. It was replanted once but no help as to spreading.

I have photographed this heavenly blue meconopsis for many posts - look here the previous ones.

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Älä Hosu! - Don't rush!

1. Älä hosu! - Don't rush!

   I stumbled a week ago in the garden and broke my right ancle so badly that an operation was needed - with steel plates and all :) This means very difficult moving at least for 6 weeks, maybe longer. I am a bit sad and pissed off - but it could have been worse too: I did not hurt my spine, nor neck nor head. 

   
   

   Och samma på finska: Viikko sitten onnistuin kompuroimaan omenapuun alla niin lahjakkaasti, että oikea nilkka murtui pahasti. En voinut varata, joten konttasin taloon ja konttasin autoon. Kipsaus ei riittänyt vaan leikattava oli - teräslevyineen kaikkineen. Harmittaa ja veetättää: vähintään 6 viikkoa, ehkä enemmänkin koko normaali elämä on seis. Mutta toki olisi voinut käydä pahemminkin: olisin voinut murtaa niskan, selkärangan, lonkan...

   
   

   Makrotex Challenge / Älä! -Don't!

Charming Hurdal Rose

This week Hurdalrose - Norwegian rose Hurdal has delighted me with its abundant blooming. 

It is an Alba hybrid, very vigorous & high, up till 3-4 m. Once-blooming spring or summer. 

Almost thornless & mild fragrance. Dag Lyngar from Norway reports:

'Hurdalsrosen is perhaps the biggest alba in the World - in my garden 14 feet high = over 4 m. 

It's believed that this rose came from the Giessen area in the south of Germany. 

But this rose doesn't any longer exist there. In Norway it is one of our most common roses. 

Hurdalen is a nice valley in Norway and the rose was brought to Norway about 150 years ago 

with a young seaman who fell in love with the young daughter of the priest in the valley Hurdalen.
The name of this rose is now in the whole world called 'Hurdalsrosen'!'

Norjanruusu Hurdal on ilahduttanut tällä viikolla kauniilla kukinnallaan. 

Se on hyvin voimakaskasvuinen, jopa 3-4 m. Lehdet ovat harmahtavanvihreitä ja himmeäpintaisia.
Pinkit kukat ovat keskikokoisia, puolikerrottuja ja miedosti tuoksuvia. 

Hurdal kukkii noin kuukauden keskikesällä. Tekee runsaasti kiulukoita. Vähäpiikkinen.

Romantic weekend! - Romanttista viikonloppua!