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 #4

LAZY LADY’S DECO

This is an instant DIY job. Looks nice but does not, of course, last long.

A nice autumn decoration for one festive evening.

I used my old salix wreath, added some lime Humulus lupulus branches with cones.

In a few seconds ready to host a candle in the middle at the dinner table.
But all my candles were somewhere in Christmas decoration boxes - upstairs out of my reach!

MY READING 

this week has been the newly released MRS C - a fiction novel by Minna Rytisalo. 

It is a book about the young Minna Canth (1844 - 1897) who was a writer and 

keen defender of women’s rights.

The 19th of March we celebrate Minna Canth and equal rights for men and women.

She is the only woman in Finland who has been honoured with an own flag day.

In her later years Minna Canth looked a bit roundish. But this pretty and slender 

she looked in 1865 on her engagement day.

Young Minna Johnson was studying to be a teacher but love came in between

 - and aroused a scandal in the bourgeois small town.

Her fiancé was her physics teacher in the seminar and 9 years older - quite inappropriate.

When the husband died she was tragically pregnant for the seventh child.

Yet she conquered the deep depression and brought up her children and continued to write.

WORLD ANIMAL WEEK 

is being celebrated right now 4th - 10th of October. I made a very, very long lists of writers 

who write about cats. Both Finnish and international names. Click! 

On Sunday I’ll tell you more of literary cats.

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes. ”I'm not as blind as you think."

― Erin Hunter

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