Mother Earth's Wild Flowers Garden - Uppland

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Mother Earth's Garden - Uppland

I'm up at my 'summerhouse' again to make the house ready for the winter. There are a lot of things that need to be attended to, empty the water butts (?) storing all the garden furniture etc. As I was looking at some pictures last night I found these wild flower pictures taken on a walk in May this year at the Bondskärets Naturresevat. This protected area has a great flora and fauna as well as very interesting geological features. This nature reserve Bondskäret is just a few K from here and just by the sea. Meadow flowers at Bondskär Dactylorhiza sambucina. not latifolia as it says on the photo (an old name) , I don't know the english name for it, we call it Adam & Eva. Its an orchid and all the orchids in Sweden are protected species accordingly it is prohibited to pick, dig up or in other ways harm the orchids.

This is the pretty Spring Pea Lathyrus vernus - Vårärt

Meadows and Woodland at the Nature Reserve - Ängskär - Bondskär

Cowslip - Primula veris L. - Gullviva

And at last but not least a favorite the wonderful fragrant Lily-of-the-valley Convallaria majalis L. -Liljekonvalj
Om ni vill ut och göra fina promenader i Uppland rekommenderar jag verkligen att ni går in och läser på Upplandsstiftelsen sida. Den är fantastiskt bra. Massor av fina utflyktstips, promenader, läs om naturvård och lite... nej en massa annan interessant läsning.

Have a great day - Ha en bra dag / TYRA

The sun came out for a second....

Today, I'm still sad, angry and disapointed and its all that SCOUNDRAL fault that I wrote about yesterday.

But then the 'sun came out' to brighten my grey and miserable November day, a friend came along an told me that there was an article in one of the largest papers in Sweden (DN) about garden bloggers. We have great many garden bloggers here and two of my blogs where mentioned as a blogg well worth a visit, thank you! :-)

Dahlia in the potager, the most positive flower I could find, I love you dear Dahlia.

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Blogs that was mentioned in a most positive way was:

Fundera grönt

Hannu på kinnekulle

Lilla B Mias trädgårds blog

Slottsträdgårdsmästaren

Lindas trädgårdsblogg

Rubens rabatter

and two of my blogs Tyras Garden and my Swedish blog Västhus & Potager

Artikel i DN bostad om trädgårdsbloggare, artikeln kan ni läsa HÄR

Have a great weekend!

TYRA

R.E.S.P.E.C.T Don't even think about it....

HELP! WHAT IS THIS!!! SOMEONE IS STEALING OUR WORK!

LOOK AT THIS!

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http://www.silite.com/

Some one is stealing our work...again.

Look into what they are doing on this site!

What can we do? Have your work been copied!

They steal our pictures and words and doesn't even link!

My pulse is VERY high and I can feel the adrenaline pumping....

I ask you PNT silite.com if you read this - Take away all my pictures and words!

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R.E.S.P.E.C.T

Aretha Franklin

What you want (hooo)

baby I got it

What you need (hooo)

you know I got it(Hooo)

all I'm asking (hooo)

is for a little respect

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( Just a little bit) when you come home(Just a little bit) hey baby ( Just little bit)When you come home ( Just a Little Bit) Mister
I ain't gonna do you wrong while you're goneI ain't gonna do you wrong 'cause I don't wannaAll I'm asking is for a little respect when you come home(Just a Little Bit) Baby ( Just a little bit )When you come home ( Just a little Bit) Yeah
I'm about to give you all my moneyAnd all I'm asking in return honeyIs to give me my propers when you get home(Justa Justa Justa) Yeah baby when you get home
( Just a little Bit ) Yeah ( Just a little bit )
Hooo your kisses sweeter than honey and guess what so is my moneyAll I want you to do for me is give it to me whn you get home( Re re re re spect) Yeah baby whip it to me( Just a little bit) when you get home now ( Just a little bit)

R-E-S-P-E-C-T find out what it means to meR-E-S-P-E-C-T, Take care, TCB ohhhh (Sock it to me,etc.)
A little respect oh yeah ( Just a little bit)A little respect ( Just a little Bit)

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TYRA

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Calluna vulgaris & Norrpada Achipelago

Calluna vulgaris & the beautiful Archipelago of Norrpada

Missy M on the rocks

Heather Calluna vulgaris

Heather is very common out on our beautiful islands in the Stockholm archipelago. Here I want to show a couple of pictures from an island in Norrpada Archipelago that I really like. Sometimes I visualize that Mother Nature has made all this by herself, well perhaps not entirely by herself possibly with some help from a friend, such a fabulous garden.

For medical use Calluna vulgaris is slightly diuretic, take 2 teaspoons per cup as an infusion to drink between meals 2-3 times a day.

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Ljung Calluna vulgaris

Ljung är vanligt förekommande ute på våra vackra öar I Stockholm skärgård. Här vill jag visa ett par bilder utifrån några öar som jag verkligen gillar. Tänk vad naturen har gjort alldeles själv gjort en sagolik trädgård.

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The garden of Mother Earth - astonishing isn't it?

Hans Bertil Juneby skriver i sin fantastiska bok Fytomedicin att de växtdelarna på denna växt Calluna vulgaris man använder är ört med blommor, herba cum floribus. Medicinsk användning: Ljung används som urindrivande medel och som ett lätt bakteriehämmande medel vid urinvägssjukdomar, kan även vara gynnsam vid mag-tarmkatarr och diarré.

A poem from a Nobel Prize winner

Heather by E.A. Karlfeldt.

Erik Axel Karlfeldt (July 20, 1864 — April 8, 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused it in 1918.

Ljung

Ljung du fagra på hedar magra,

min bästa blomma i barndomsår!

Än får jag bida

i drömmar frida

hos dig en soldag då sunnan går.

Här badar hyddor

i doft av kryddor

från gröna enar och timjan röd,

och vinden bjuder

en dryck som sjuder

av slättens hälsa och sommarns glöd.

Hit skall hon följa

- när vindar bölja

en soldag - hon som jag fjärran fann.

Här skall jag fråga,

om med min låga

mitt sköna hedland hon älska kan.

Och in i kransen

hon bär i dansen

en kväll vars lycka jag anar blott

skall ljung jag fläta,

att ej förgäta

hon må min börd och min barndomslott.

Karlfeldt, Erik Axel (1864-1931), poet, writer, Sweden


TYRA

A GARDENERS WRAP

A Gardeners Gift Wrap

To wrap a present is so fun, I really do enjoy it and this time I wanted to do something different, I went for a stroll in the garden and ended up with this. I just adores the seed capsules of the Papaver, I think they are most fascinating, each one is a small work of art. They are so beautiful therefore I started out with the Papaver then...

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POP ART

...added a fig (picked from the fridge), some lovely green Ivy, two Cynara cardunculus and then the beautiful blueish green fragant sage. I was rather satisfied with the result if I may say, you could certainly see that it was from the a gardener :-)

Att slå in paket är ju så jätteroligt tycker jag, här gick jag en runda i trädgården och plockade lite grejer, frökapslar ifrån vallmo, härligt grön murgröna, doftande salvia också ett par kardonknoppar och till sist ett fikon ifrån kylskåpet...sedan var det bara att fästa ihop dem och vips, färdigt. Ett paket som det syns lång väg att det kommer från en trädgårds toka.

Happy birthday to Lena my dear sister in law!