Friday Bliss #209 - Garden Views of the Week

My autumn asters, Symphyotrichum novi-belgii, are still small plants, but they spread eagerly. 

I replant root sprouts to suitable places. Here in front of our terrace. Autumn is in the air 

and finally we got some good rain! I hope this rain will help trees and my plants to survive.

Daughter M & her husband helped DH to carry all terrace furniture to shelter and 

all potted seedlings were planted. No stress whatsoever, the autumn may come!

 

I like very much the lime colour of Humulus lupulus ’Aureus’.

It spreads eagerly and I grow new plants from its root sprouts.

Previously here was growing a beautiful pale violet Clematis Emilia Plater,

but unfortunately it disappeared years ago. Now this wild humulus replaces it.

At the background you see how my small lawn has suffered from the draught.

Emilia Plater looked this fabulous a few years ago.

One of my young humulus root sprouts.

My purple clematis are still going strong. Here Negritjanka.

Plums are ripening. 

I used a small bowl as decoration for a book cover photo for my book blog.

Every day joy on the kitchen table is offered by this simple autumn arrangement.

The white Phalaenopsis has been in bloom for over two months ❤︎

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Friday Bliss #207 - Happy Birthday, Silva & Selma!

Selma and Silva celebrate today their first birthday - congratulations!

They are healthy, lively, soft and sweet ❤️  They run and play, hunt flies,

love to go out in the garden and let us sleep in the morning. 

Selma posed for me a bit, but Silva was not a minute still.

The position of her ears tells that she didn’t like modeling at all.

GARDEN:

Clematis Negritjanka and Mikelite are in bloom, have been for a while. In the spring 

they woke up very late and I was afraid that they will not show up at all. 

The flowers are smaller than usual, due to the draught.

Clematis Negritjanka

Clematis Mikelite, picture taken from the shadow side towards the terrace.

There is more abundant blooming on the other side.

 

Bees are busy, even if there is autumn in the air.

HEALTH:

I've been suffering from sciatica for 2.5 weeks now. The pain radiates to the entire left leg, 

all the way to the foot. Moving is extremely painful. They said that recovering takes 

from 6 weeks till 3 months. I may have to rely on old photos in the coming weeks, 

if I can't walk and take new ones. But that’s life.

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Friday Bliss #45 - Purple Magic & Sightseeing

Large flowered Negritjanka is my most beautiful clematis.

It blooms abundantly year after year. The colour is very dark, my photos show it lighter.

The contrasting yellow-white anthers add its charm. 

I saw a splendid exhibition Careless Capital - Suruton kaupunki

that tells how the life was in Helsinki in the roaring 1920s.
 Time was wild. There was a prohibition in the country, but the booze never ended
and the restaurants offered hard tea.
Jazz, swing, revues, restaurants - poverty, unemployment, reds vs whites -
a lot of contrasts in the middle of Helsinki, street slang & many foreign languages.
HERE you can read more about my impressions.

Beautiful Hakasalmi Villa, now a museum, was the home of Aurora Karamzin (1808-1902) 

who served at the Russian Court as a lady-in-waiting before her marriage to a Russian nobleman.

Later she used the immense wealth inherited from her first husband to create 

benevolent institutions in Helsinki, such as schools, public kitchens and 

the Deaconess Institution of Helsinki. 

The villa is situated opposite the central library Oodi and in the middle of 

Music Hall and Finlandia Hall, where there was going some EU meeting 

with a lot of police on guard. From the villa’s garden I could see central library Oodi’s 

sunny terrace full of people enjoying the lovely afternoon.

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Wishing happy weekend!

- riitta

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