These Hot Days of July

Orange is not exactly my favourite garden color.

I bought yellow Tropaelum seeds, but most of them are bright orange!

 Color Collage 25/2021  / These hot days of July 

The next challenge will open on the 18th of July. 

Nostalgic Garden Planter

The theme of Makrotex is NOSTALGIA.

I chose my old Singer sewing machine on top of which there is a stainless steel planter,

 found in a junkyard years ago.

At the moment there are tete-a-tete daffodils with winter conifers, 

but it has hold many kinds of summer flowers through the years.

I love this lime Lysimachia mummularia ’Aurea’. 

It seems that I have used it from season to season. What to plant with it this year?

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Dragonfly & Lobelia

This week’s topic at Makrotex is NEW.

I have practically nothing new, because I don't amuse myself by shopping. 
That is why I took my mirrored dragonfly, bought at Easter and photographed it 
with my tiny & lobelia plants which were bought a few weeks ago.

I have three big pots on the low terrace steps. This color combination 

- pink petunias & purple lobelias - are not me.

Usually I have more bluish annuals. Let’s see how they turn out later on!

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Friday Bliss #55 - Summer Plantings

Some public plantings seen in the neighbourhood in the summer.

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Wishing you a pleasant weekend!

- riitta

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Bye, Bye Floral Bliss!

It has come time to say good bye to Floral Bliss. I started my weekly link-up 

the 31st of May in 2016, at that time under the name Flower Wednesday - altogether 31 posts. 

As Floral Bliss there has now been 89 posts, in total 120. This is the last one.

There has been a few loyal participants nearly every week,

but I don’t want you to be obliged. So, I want to thank you all who have participated! 

This time has been fun - but there are so many link-ups around the world to choose from;

I also run out of plants and don’t want to repeat myself. 

Thank you for your company ❤︎ 

I’m sure we’ll meet at other sites. And Floral Passions is not going to disappear!

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Quiet, very quiet

the summer flows out of me,

here when I sit on the veranda

and the leaves are falling at their own pace.

In the end, there’s just a slowly moving fog 

and an overwhelming loneliness.

-Ilkka Pitkänen-

I have three big pots on the terrace stairs. In the early summer there were pansies, 

now chrysanthemums with lime Lysimachia mummularia. I love its lime color! 

This ground cover spends the winter planted into ground. Part shall stay there on the spot 

covering bushes etc., part shall be used again in summer plantings.

...

Minulla on terassin loivilla portailla kolme isoa ruukkua. Alkukesästä orvokkeja, 

nyt krysanteemeja limenvärisen suikeroalven kanssa. Oi että tykkään sen väristä! 

Talven suikeroalvet viettävät maahan istutettuina. Osa jää maanpeitteeksi niille sijoilleen, 

osa päätyy taas kesäkukkaruukkuihin.

Hiljaa, hyvin hiljaa
valuu kesä minusta pois,
tässä, kun istun verannalla
ja lehdet varisevat omia aikojaan.
Lopulta on vain verkkaan liikehtivä
sumu ja täyttyvä yksinäisyys.
-Ilkka Pitkänen-

The husband went shopping. I love the color he chose although 

I usually buy ball shaped autumn blooming variety.

...

Isäntä kävi ostoksilla. Tykkään kovasti hänen valitsemastaan väristä, 

joskin itse tapaan ostaa pallokrysaanteemeja isommissa ruukuissa.

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End of Summer Thoughts

The summer runs always too fast. By now almost all blooming in the garden is over.

The general sight is that of negligence and perishableness.
But that is the circle of the year and the life.

So no overall photos of the garden but a few glimpses from my terrace.

This annual grass is looking fine and my once dried up blue petunia blooms again.

Rose hips are slowly turning to red...

Kesä kuluu aina liian nopeasti. Melkein kaikki kukinta on jo ohi.

Puutarhassa näyttää huonosti hoidetulta ja kuihtuvaiselta. Luonnon ja elämän kiertokulku.

Ei yleiskuvia siis, vain muutama kuva terassiltani:

yksivuotinen heinä näyttää kivan liehuvalta ja kerran kuivunut sininen petunia kukkii taas.

Ruusunmarjat punastuvat hiljalleen...

I just read a cruel divorce story in poetry form by the Swedish
Ebba Witt-Brattström.
...
Tästä hurjasta avioerorunoelmasta postaan huomenissa kirjablogissani.

Soon it is time for DIY projects using rose hips.
This grey spread wreath is two years old and as fresh as new!
...
Ruusunmarjat kuivuvat kauniisti. Tämä kaksi vuotta vanha kranssini on kuin uusi.

#GARTENGLÜCK

Happy Weekend! - Hyvää viikonloppua!

Floral Bliss #85

The heat and draught have gone by now, but they did their damage.
Birches and many shrubs are yellow already and drop their leaves on the grass.
Autumn is in the air. Of course a bit melancholy but apples are ripening!

This week I'll share my poor summer plantings.
The watering was the responsibility of my husband, but he did not quite succeed...

The white small flowered petunia all withered...

Kuumuus ja kuivuus ovat mennyttä, mutta tekivät vahinkonsa.
Koivut ovat keltaisia, monet pensaat ruskeita ja syksyn lehtiä satelee nurmikolle.
Tuntuu hyvin syksyiseltä, haikealtakin tottakai, mutta omenat ovat kypsymässä!

Tällä viikolla muutama kuva surkeista kesäkukistani.
Kastelu oli miehen vastuulla eikä ressukka selvinnyt aivan puhtain paperein.

The gorgeous blue petunia on the terrace all dried up... Now cut down, hope it shall grow & bloom.

This light petunia of thuja planting all dried up... The thuja & the grass still alive!

But my husband has managed to keep this hanging basket alive & beautiful ❤︎

Why my Actinidia kolomikta grows in a funny place like this, beside the pool?
Well, it was climbing to the roof of our gazebo, but one winter the gazebo fell to ground
because of snow burden - and the plant stayed on the spot :)
...
Jaa, miksi kiinanlaikkuköynnökseni kasvaa näin hullussa paikassa?
No, se kiipeili huvimajan katolle, mutta yhtenä talvena huvimaja sortui lumen painosta
- ja kiinanlaikkuköynnös jäi niille sijoilleen :)



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Floral Bliss #74

This week I'll share with you my Petunia planting that blooms heavenly!
This is Petunia sanguine 'Sky Blue' that I bought in the beginning of May.
Lime mummularia is starting to grow too....

A few days ago it showed less open blooms - but pretty nevertheless.

One of the joys of summer is making garden bouquets. 

Here a quick & colourful version for you!

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Wishing you a good start to June! - Ihanaa kesäkuuta!

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