Friday Bliss #139 - Enjoy the Life!

Finally we have got summer temperatures of 19-25 C. In the sun on our terrace 35 C!

It has been a gorgeous week. The nature is awakening rapidly, trees are sprouting 

and new joys can be noticed every day. I have Anemone ranunculoides growing 

in many places. Have not planted them, they have just appeared by themselves.

I don’t usually buy hydrangeas, neither in pot or as cut flowers,

because I don’t know how to take care of them.

As Mother’s Day present I got this gorgeous lilac hydrangea together with

a beautiful poetry book: To Mother, poems about life and love.

The book contains classic Finnish poetry of Eino Leino, Katri Vala, 

Saima Harmaja, Uuno Kailas etc. Such a sweet gift.

FLOWERING EARTH

by Katri Vala (1901-1944)

The earth bubbling with purple lilac sprays,

white mildew of the rowans,

red star clusters of sticky catchflies.

Blue, yellow, white flowers

undulating as meadows of mad seas. 

And the smell! 

More wonderful than the holy incense! 

Hot and vibrant and madly insane, 

the pagan scent of the earth's skin!

Live, live, live! 

Live furiously the high moment of life, 

the petals extremely open, 

live blooming fabulously.

Be delirious about the scent, the sun -

be drugged, live to the fullest!

What about the fact that death is coming! 

What about that this multicolored beauty 

falls withered onto the ground. 

After all, we have blossomed once! 

The sun has shone, 

the great and burning love of heaven, 

directly to our blooming hearts, 

to the vibrating core of our being!

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Time of Groundcovers

As we got some lovely warm temperatures, many groundcovers are in full bloom.

Scillas are soon over but Omphalodes verna is gorgeous in its blue and

they are blooming in many spots around my garden.

Yellow Ficaria verna conquers every year more space.

It blooms around hostas that are not yet showing.

Anemone ranunculoides is also a sweet & sunny spring bloom.

Veronica filiformis is also eager to spread. Here in the middle of Stachys byzantina.

Gorgeous sunny spring!

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May’s Tiny Beauties

As this year’s May has been so cold, scillas and wild anemones are still in bloom.

This year I grow yellow Tropaeolum from seed and Lysimachia mummularia ’Aurea’ 

from small lumps. Lysimachia spend the winter planted into ground and I use them in pot plantings.

Not yet real sprouting as you can see. A few wood pigeons visit daily my garden.

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Warm Wool Colors

Azaleas of Haaga Rhododenron Park in 2018. Blooming time in Finland is June.

Color Collage 19/2021 

Novita wool shades this week are sunflower, wheat corn and rowan.

Friday Bliss #138 - Happy Mother’s Day!

On Sunday we celebrate in Finland Mothers’ Day. As present for mothers also pot plants 

are very popular. Any plant will do: roses, orchids and hydrangeas. I usually get a rose.

It’s the time of wood anemones and the breath of the spring wind,

I stop and think for a moment who deserves praise, 

It's my mom, the most wonderful, even more precious than gold.

I open the window to spring and put a bouquet of flowers on it. 

I raise a toast of sparkling wishing a glorious Mother’s Day!

Cool spring continues, so far some groundcovers are blooming, not much else. 

But next week we’ll have a three days’ summer with 18-21 C. Isn’t that something!

For the First of May I had a simple bunch of alstromerias. 

All the wonderful blooming still ahead. Soon the cherries will bloom!

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Happy Mother’s Day!

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Outdoors Fun

First warming up - then jogging. The pupils of the local elementary school

had their excercise lesson outdoors.

The scenery continues bare due to cold spring. Photos taken 29 April.

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Wool Colors of Novita

Color Collage 18/2021

The theme Colorful World  of Novita wool yarns continues. This week’s shades  are

Morning dew, Knapweed and Ice. 

Friday Bliss #137 - Spring in the Neighbourhood

Around the festivities of First of May, in Finland called Vappu, the weather is usually bad.

Perhaps the gods want to keep people away from too wild celebrating and booze drinking 

on the streets and in the parks :)) I’ll share today some impressions seen while walking 

in the neighbourhood and then some fantastic plants of the garden center Viherpaja. 

I shopped only with my eyes, no annuals can be planted yet.

I certainly wish good luck to this guy who tries to get rid of his invasive

Fallopia japonica! I had only a couple of small plants, but it took me

five years to get rid of them without poison.

Kids of the local elementary school had their excercise lesson outdoors.

As you see the birches are not sprouting yet.

The garden center Viherpaja had on sale stunning Mandevilla plants in white and pink.

... and pelargonias and roses with a trunk!

The most exquisite plant was this big Echium webbii, that I have never seen before.

I think that Nova must know it, because it grows on the Canary Islands. 

See the link of Wikipedia where you’ll find a beautiful photo of a fully grown plant. 

"Echium webbii is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it is restricted to the island of La Palma. The flowers are normally blue and produced in numerous spikes in early summer, but a hybrid is sometimes seen with white or pink flowers. It grows to average height 100 centimetres (39 in), maximum height 150 centimetres (59 in).The plant is not very tolerant of cold, and in the wild is a shrub. It can be grown in gardens in mild areas, but requires good drainage."

I have lost many Japanese maples, but think I have to try this lime one once more!

Bougainvillea is definitely not for me, but stunning it is!

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Hyvää Vappua! - Happy First of May! - Skål to Spring!

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