Floral Passions: geranium

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14 kesäkuuta 2019

Friday Bliss #40 - Blue Beauties

Despite varying weather, a lot is happening in the garden this week, too.
Maybe you can help me in identifying this dark purple geranium?

I think it is Geranium magnificum - Tarhakurjenpolvi, but it might also be
Geranium himalayense - Idänkurjenpolvi. But which, I don’t know for sure.

I have several of these and this one in a sunny spot is the first to bloom.

I went sightseeing near home. Visited once again the artist community around Lake Tuusula.

Our much respected national writer Aleksis Kivi died in this tiny cottage 1872.

His Seven Brothers is the first significant novel written in Finnish.

Other plant joys of the week 24:

This summer I have been a bit lazy in making bouquets for the terrace,
but here a sunny one in contrasting colours.

❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎

Wishing you a beautiful weekend! - Kaunista viikonloppua!

- riitta

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02 marraskuuta 2018

Friday Bliss #8

If months were marked by colors,

November in New England - and in Finland! - would be colored gray.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

This November there seems to be nothing to say.

- Anne Sexton
...
As you can see from the above quotes autumn darkness has landed in Finland
and the lack of daylight starts to have its effect on my mood :)
It is definitely the time to start to use my Beurer daylight therapy lamp.
It really helps to overcome this fatigue!

November comes

And November goes,

With the last red berries

And the first white snows.

With night coming early,

And dawn coming late,

And ice in the bucket

And frost by the gate.

The fires burn

And the kettles sing,

And earth sinks to rest

Until next spring.

- Clyde Watson

Wishing you a blessed All Saints’ Day! - Rauhaisaa pyhäinpäivää!

- riitta

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25 kesäkuuta 2018

Miehen silmin - Through Dear Hubby's Eyes

Nilkkavammani vuoksi liikkumiseni on äärimmäisen rajoittunutta, niinpä delegoin puutarhan kuvaamista miehelle. Helpommin sanottu kuin tehty, sillä hän tuntee suurin piirtein pylväshaavan ja voikukan. Koko ajan herra kysyy, mitä kuvataan ja minä ohjeistan. Hän näkee aivan eri tavoin kuin minä ja näyttää olevan kiinnostunut enemmän pörriäisistä kuin kukista :)

Kultakuoriainen - Cetonia aurata

Because of the foot injury and cast my moving is extremely restricted. So I delegated some photographing to dear hubby. Easier said than done, because he is not a garden person at all and keeps asking what to photograph and how - and I try to be patient and explain. The funniest thing is that he sees at least the plants in a quite different way than I and seems to be more interested in bugs than flowers :)

No, näillä mennään. Kaikenlaista kukkii nyt, mutta erityisesti iloitsen näistä kurjenpolvista, jotka eivät ole koskaan kukkineet näin runsaasti. Niitä löytyy useampi puska sieltä täältä, nimestä en ole täysin varma. Sitten kukassa on myös perhoangervo - Gillenia trifoliata, joka on ihanan keveä perhospilvi kukkineen - joskin tosi haasteellinen kuvattava.

Well, this is what I have got and have to rely on his help. Many plants are blooming now but these deep purple blue geraniums like never before! I have several plants in my mixed beds. And this Gillenia trifoliata is really like an airy grouping of tiny butterflies as its Finnish name suggests. So pretty but extremely challenging to photograph.