Frost Bites

We have had the first frost nights, the temperatures below zero.

Not much to photograph in the garden but a lot of raking!

Frost looks like sugar, doesn’t it!

I am thankful and happy that the yard is getting tidier, slowly but surely.

I rake, my husband transports :)

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Welcome for a Green Visit!

At he moment my garden is more green than blooming. When we moved here, there were no plants, no hedges, no nothing, only lawn in a bad condition. My aim was to bring green and different shades & shapes of foliage, and that’s what I have now.

It was a lovely August day today, and I was out in the garden replanting for hours. I feel thankful for my health and for the fact that I still have muscle power to dig, dig and dig! I’m thankful for my husband also, who helped me to clear from weeds and unwanted plants one spot in the garden. It is ready for planting - think of bare virgin soil! and the planting is going to happen tomorrow!

 I don’t know the name of this Veronica, but it is beautiful, pretty high 

and stands straight without  support.

Clematis integrifolia ’Petit Faucon’ has bloomed for weeks.

It needs support and its seedheads are very decorative.

This cream white Aconitum looks really beautiful against the dark-leaved ’Diabolo’.

Behind also a row of Rodgersia aesculifolia.

Was plant shopping for the autumn recently...

Still some solitary rose blooming among the reddening rose hips...
This is Rosa rugosa ’Rotes Meer’.

Although plastic, this pair of ducks looks cute swimming in my garden pond :)

// THANKFUL THURSDAY
// WILLY-NILLY
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Strolling Along the Local River

I love to stroll along the banks of this Kerava river. Late July most wild flowers 

were on their way to withering, but I spotted a good variety of them.

The air was sweet of the fragrance of Filipendula ulmaria, turning brown...
The colouring was yellowish, August-like...

... Tanacetum vulgare ...

... some Calamagrostis ...

... Matricaria chamomilla ...

... Centaurea jacea, some Solidago ...

... a lot of Chamaenerion angustifolium ...

... Cirsium heterophyllum ...

I'm so greatful and happy that I can walk again. Last year in July
I used wheel chair after my bad ankle fracture. It took 10 months until
I could walk properly. The ankle has cured well, only going downstairs the stairs
the ankle is stiff and causes a bit trouble. But I don't complain!

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// NATUR-DONNERSTAG 
// LITTLE THINGS THURSDAY

// THANKFUL THURSDAY