I visited an old mansion a few days back, with an old overgrown garden and park. My interest was to see if there where any old bulb plants left, and it was! Large stands of narcissus, scattered daffodils and peonia rugs where visible. The narcissus I found was a kind I never seen before. A Google search later I think it could be A narcissus called White Lady. It's known in cultivation before 1927, but the origin is not known. It is the big white one with a yellow trumpet.
Såhär på hösten är det bara några få växter kvar i blom. En sommarens sista hälsning innan allt börjar vissna ner när temperaturen sjunker. Nu börjar det bli kallare på nätterna men dagen är fortfarande varm, upp mot 15 C grader.
Nävan Geranium 'Rozanne' blommar envist vidare och och sommarljuset Gaura linderheimi i vitt ackompanjerar med vita fjärilsliknande blommor.
Chokladblomman (Cosmos atrosanguineus) från Mexicos pinjeskogar har blommat hela sommaren. Den ska jag övervintra torrt för ny njutning nästa sommar! Dessutom doftar den kakao.
En solhatt Echinacea purpurea har bekänt färg i år. Den första blomman (och enda) från fröer som LS har skickat mig.
Här tillsammans med en annan blomma, drakmynta,Physostegia virginiana, som jag drivit upp från en liten stickling. Blommar länge på ett tätt ax med stora gapliknande blommor. Jag hoppas den kommer att trivas och blir en tät planta med tiden.
En älskad höstflox, Phlox sp., från torpet, nu hitflyttad till Södertälje.
En senblommande trädgårdsstormhatt, Aconitum sp. En blomma som välskyddad ut för regn och rusk, vilket passar bra idag när vädret är ruskigt ute.
Om jag vore humla skulle jag ta skydd i en stormhatt!
Chokladblomman, med en härlig doft och sidenglans.
We are losing daylight quickly now, and today is the first day with "wintertime". The sun is fading so the clock is turned back to it´s real position for half a year. Now the sun is passing south every noon, not one o´clock.
But light is fading, as you can see in this scheme over sunrise and sunset in Södertälje the coming week. Minus 30 min. But it´s only two months til it turns and daylight becomes longer again.
In the last days it´s been a music festival here, called Pretzeltown. It´s a translation of the nickname my town has, "Kringelstan". In the last century´s beginning, there were women who sold their homebaked pretzels in the city and at the railway station. According to Wikipedia, their sales methods were so aggressive they were forbidden in the town streets. True or not, it´s a curiosity fact. Nowadays you can buy pretzels here, not salty, but sweet. But they are not something we usually have.
Welcome to Pretzeltown!
This is the not-so-famous dog, Glasbergajycken, who lives happy days in a round-about near my home. Rondellhundar is common in Sweden, see more here at rondellhund.se . This particular dog has got some influence from Rauschbergs goat, which is an artpiece of questionable value according to some. It´s made an impression on me at least, but I dont know if I like it.
It all started with an ordered artpiece from an artist, a concrete dog which got its head removed and was taken away for repair. Somebody replaced the damaged piece with a homemade wooden dog, very crude, but still a dog! It´s become something of a national epidemic, and you can find them all over Sweden.
rondellhund [råndel-hun]
Definition Icke professionellt producerad skulpturkonst i form av hund eller annat djur i valfritt material som, ofta i skydd av nattens mörker, placeras på offentlig plats, företrädesvis i en rondell.
Definition: Non-professional produced sculpture art in shape of a dog or other animal in material free of choice, which, often in the cover of the night, is placed in public place, preferably a round-about.
Floppy in Södertälje and Rocky in Sundsvall, illustrating the wide range of Round-about-dogs in Sweden.
Why not make your own, AnS? I´ll join you if you want, we have discussed it!
by EH
