Something we really doesn´t need is rain, and it´s of course raining outside today :-) Well my grandma ( on my mothers side)always said that it had to come down so the spring could start. I´m not so sure about that, but I can´t stop it anyway so I might as well belive her :-) She was a wise woman in many ways and the one that made me interseted of gardening. My grandpa, who was a officer in the swedish navy, wanted straight flowerbeds with roses in them. My grandma on the other hand had another idea. So when he had planted the flowerbeds as he thought it should look like, my grandma then put strawberries, violettes and other small plants between everything :-) Grandpa never got the flowerbeds like he wanted them :-)

For some reason a rain in spring is so much nicer than a rain in autumn :-)

They had a lot of berries and apples in their garden. Grandpa that remembered how it was not to have any food always wanted grandma to cann the fruits to have in winter. Well grandma also remembered how it was not to have alot of food, but realised that they would have cannes of fruit for the rest of their lives if she did that every year. So every summer and autumn grandpa told us that he had sprayed the fruit and berries, so it was dangerous to eat them. Then grandma came and told us that he hadn´t done that for years, so we could eat as much as we wanted :-) It wasn´t easy for grandpa :-) :-)

Teodor climbed the old apple tree yesterday. Of course he got problem comming down :-)

So in my garden one can see clearly that it´s my grandmas style that is seen there. No straight lines here :-) It´s a mix of small and big plants side by side. If a aquilegia thinks it´s a great place to live in the gravel round my house I let it stay. I do love the dandylions that is everywhere in my garden. Even if I wanted it´s impossible to get rid of them. There are thousands of them in the firelds all around my cottage. So I´m happy everytime they start to flower.

This is a fern I bought two years ago. It shouldn´t be able to survive in my climat, but I haven´t told it that :-) In swedish this is called "Deers tongue".

Well it´s some time untill the dandylions start too bloom, because first the rain has to come down so the spring can start for real :-)
Be good!

The apple tree is dying fro what we are calling "tree cancer". So last year I started to cut it down with a hand saw. Now I have bought a electric chainsaw and will cut the rest later this spring. A new tree is going to be planted, but I´m not sure what yet.