More and more of the later spring bulbs are getting flower buds now. This is what we call "Kings field lilly" , one of the english names is "Checkered Daffodil". This one is going to get a white flower

and this one will be checkerd coloured.

A fire is burning in the stowe, my dogs are sleeping in my bed (making it full with doghair and sand :-) ) and my cats are out chasing mice and rats (at least I hope so, but with my luck the´ll be best friends with them instead :-) ). Outside the clouds are hanging low and it looks as if it could rain any minute now. But it has looked that way all day now, so I don´t think it´ll start raining at all.

One of my tree paeonys has five big buds now. Lets hope that neither me or my dogs will brake it this year :-)

They say that the waterlevel in the lake is very low, but that´s kind of strange, because if one goes on the fields here there is so much water in the ground that one starts to sink if one stays to long at one spot. The ditches isn´t espesially well kept here, so perhaps that´s why the water don´t reach the lake?



I got a plant via mail today, a Shortia uniflora. This one gets the most beautiful flowers. Garden nutts like me send flowers to each other all the time, if we can´t meet of course. We do sow a lot of seeds every year and finally we get to many plants so we have to det rid of them somehow. So we have "Plant exchange days" a couple of times every summer. Then we take what ever we have to much of or plants we for some reason doesn´t want to have any more. Plants as I see as weed, can be gold worth for someone else. Somehow we all comes home with more plants than we had with us :-)

Now it grows beside one of my rhododendrons.

There´s a fotball/soccer arena in Gothenburg (Nya Ullevi) that started to rock when Bruce Springsteen had a concert there many years ago (1985). Perhaps it liked the music :-) The problem was that the audience danced and Gothenburg is built on blue clay and the music and dancing made the whole arena to start to rock :-) People who saw it says it looked fantastic. It costed millions to repaire the arena after that :-) and to make sure it wouldn´t happen again.

This is a Corydalis solida (we call it Nunns wort in swedish). This spreads like crazy all over the garden and outside too :-) But it´s a gentle weed and lets other plants grow beside them. The colour can be everything from bright red to durty purple.

and sometimed half the flower can be white.

Now they have built a smaller soccer arena (called Gamla Ullevi (Old Ullevi) for some strange reason) just beside the other one, on the same blue clay of course. Now neighbours to the arena has started to complain, not about the loud noice the fans make, but their homes has started to rock when the home team makes a goal :-) The fans are jumping around when the goal comes and the vibrations from the arena makes peoples book cases move in the houses next door. Lamps are swinging around and some people thought it was a strong earthquake the first time it happened :-) So now they probably has to repair the new arena and stabilise the ground again :-) Wonder why they didn´t think of that in the beginning :-)
Have a great day now!