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 #208 - Green Memory Mix from Florence

I spent a few days in Florence in the autumn of 2019 - before the pandemic, war in Ukraine 

and the energy crisis. It was an unforgettable vacation. I saw so much, visited art museums, 

churches and admired the city & the Arno, as my small apartment was near to Ponte Vecchio.

Because I’m narrowed down to the house right now, I needed something to lift up the spirits

 and was viewing my photos and thought to share some green views with you, too.

Please note the people on the street at the low part of the photo. The wall was very high. 

How on earth they are able to cut the grass on a slope steep like this!

Here at home Sedum Herbstfreude is blushing. This is a plant that tolerates every draught!

Otherwise the garden is a sad sight - it is so dry that many perennials are drooping their leaves. 

I wonder how many plants will be lost due to the draught of this summer.

Autumn is a book lover’s Christmas! There are constantly new books to be released 

by Finnish writers & publishers. The latest book read is a novel The Cook of Miss Stein 

by talented Leena Parkkinen. The story tells about the Paris of the 1930s, Gertrude Stein, 

Alice B. Toklas and their Finnish cook Margit. The lovestory of Stein and Toklas was brave

at the time when homosexuality was a crime.

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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 #206 - Small Brewery Shop

Situated in an ancient factory building and in the same complex as Gumbostrand 

Konst & Form there is a newly opened brewery shop exhibiting the beers of a couple of 

small breweries. I don’t know much about beer but there were many flavours to choose from.

The shop was decorated with old rustic items and upstairs they sold deep freezed 

reindeer meat and reindeer skins.

 

 

I liked a lot the special blue window frames. In the same big space there was also

 a handicraft shop, unfortunately closed during my visit. Well, some other time.

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