Friday Bliss #104 - Autumn in the Air

It feels like autumn, can’t help. This week we have had cloudy and rainy days, 

but a few gorgeous sunny days as well. I am still busy renovating the upstairs bedrooms.

I’ll have a gorgeous Room of her own, essential for any woman,  already Virginia Woolf knew that!

A couple of quotes by her:

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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When you consider things like the stars, 

our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

My bouquet has Rudbeckia ’Goldball’, Sedum and Lilium martagon seedheads.

The brown leaves of Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diabolo’ add autumn touch.

Happy weekend!

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Friday Bliss #6

This week I’ll share a late August bouquet with Aster novi-belgii,

Sedum 'Herbstfreude' & Eryngium giganteum.

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Loppukesän kimpussani tällä viikolla syysasteria,

syysmaksaruohoa ja hohtopiikkiputkea.

This summer my new & small aster plants suffered heavily from draught, 

hope they shall bloom better next summer!

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What have you been up to this week?

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I am a bit late in visiting you, for we have autumn vacations in Finland,
so not online so much...

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Villain’s Herb

The common name of Chelone obliqua is in Finnish Konnanyrtti.
KONNA translates into English as villain or turtle. I took the liberty to think it as Villain’s Herb :) 
Of course she is no villain or bad ass, instead a pretty and easy late autumn bloomer.
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In English: Red, Pink or Rose turtlehead.
Auf Deutsch Schiefe Schildblume, Miesmäulchen oder Schlangenkopf.
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Finnish saying has it: A beloved child has many names!
Chelone obliqua has a funny way of blooming. This is how it starts...

... and this is how it continues - building a long snake like stem.

I have a white variety, too but it is very weak.

Chelone obliqua is pretty in late summer bouquets, too.

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Wishing you a happy weekend!

Friday Bliss #5

Today I’ll repost this September bouquet from two years back

- with Sedum, Diabolo, Calamagrostis, Humulus & Thuja.

My week has flied. Did a bit reading, watched ATP tennis and made some digital art.

ATP TENNIS - SHANGHAI MASTERS

The Swiss Roger Federer has had an incredible career. At the age of 37 his ranking is 2. 

In the last year’s final in Shanghai he beat Rafael Nadal,

who is not participating this year.  Today are quarter finals and Federer meets

Kei Nishikori, 27 years, ranking 12. Very exciting!

DIGITAL ART

In my art group our topic for October is wood and/or fire. 

This is how I see end of love and book burning:

”Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials, 
usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books represents an element of censorship 
and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question.”
- Wikipedia

If you wish to see my other works, clic here!



MY READING
this week was Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women. Selected stories.
I warmly recommend if you have not yet read this.
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Welcome - Friday Bliss #3

A year ago I replanted my Anemone hupehensis. That was maybe not a wise decision,

because at least during this dry first summer they did not thrive, blooming was poor.

Yesterday was a very windy day and I saw this little beauty shivering with cold.

She is sweet, but oh so lonely ❤︎

MY WEEK

1. I have been out in the garden, nearly all autumn jobs done! Feels so satisfying. Raking still to do, but later. I have to give credit to my husband: I supervised, it was mainly him who worked and digged  ❤︎
2. We emptied all summer planting pots and planted my seedlings.
3. I had 3 great looking Physocarpus opulifolius ’Diabolo’ seedlings and 3 green versions of the plant. Diabolo self seeds eagerly and they are easy to find! I plant the seedlings in pots in good soil for the summer - easier to water. By the autumn they have grown big and strong enough to be planted in the garden. I love Diabolo’s color, even behind this lonely anemone you can notice one growing.  I have many, and have donated a lot of seedlings to friends and family!
4. My reading this week has been the Nobel winner Svetlana Aleksijevitš (Alexievich in English). We have just got a Finnish translation of this - Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. Tough & interesting reading. I warmly recommend her documentary books. Earlier I have read her Voices of Chernobyl and The Unwomanly Face of War.

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Signs of autumn - Syksyn merkkejä

My garden looks wet, autumn like and really messy - in fact pretty sad.

But I don’t want to think of the sad sights now, instead show you some blooms that still delight me.

Lilium orientale
On the contrary to my doubts each new lily bulb is blooming. The overall sight is not so nice
because everything around these fantastic lilies looks withering and brown already.

Sedum Herbstfreude
A year ago I donated a lot of these to my daughter’s new garden.
Then divided what was left  in tiny clumps that have grown extremely well in this dry corner.



Calamagrostis Karl Foerster has decided to show some late blooms...



Parthenocissus has started to show some red color...

There are a plenty of seeds to pick up:
Alcea rosea, Digitalis, Verbascum nigra, Lychnis coronaria, Aquilegia... you name it...

Soon time to plant some late autumn plantings...

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Sparkle to The Weekend

Due to the draught of summer only one of my new bulbs of Lilium orientale bloomed.

I asked my husband to bring it inside for a portrait.
I don’t use very often my bling, bling bijou but they make good accessories now and then ...

The fragrance was in fact so intense that the poor lily had to go out on the terrace.

Soon three months as prison with the cast. Patience has come in need.

I do hope that the x-rays on Monday bring me good news.

Kuiva kesä teki tehtävänsä: vain yksi uusista orientalisliljan sipuleista kukki.

Niinpä haetutin sen miehellä sisälle potrettia varten.
Eipä tule juuri käytettyä näitä bling-, bling-koruja, mutta rekvisiittana ne ovat toki ok.

Liljan tuoksu oli itse asiassa niin huumaava, että lilja päätyi kipin kapin terassille.

Kohta kolme kuukautta sisätiloissa kipsin kanssa - kärsivällisyyttä on kysytty.

Toivottavasti maanantain röntgen tuo hyviä uutisia.

Wishing you a happy autumn weekend! - Ihanaa  syksyistä viikonloppua!