For once in their lifes they stood still long enough to get a good picture :-) Click on the pictures to enlarge them, they usually gets better then.

I´ve never noticed the strange form on this spruce before. I wonder if it always has had this round top or if anything happened to it sometime.

The blackberries are in bloom now. We call them Bear berries.

There will be a lot of berries on this bush alone if lucky. It´s not always the get to ripe here, it all depends on how the autumn gets. One cold night and bye bye to the berries.

Finally I found a blue Jacobs ladder or Blue gold as we call them too.

Incarvillea zhongdiaensis. This one can stand our cold winters but rot if the winters are wet.It´s related to the Catalpa trees.

My dogroses will soon be covered in pink flowers.

I´m making a small hill of all the grass I´ve dug up on the pond spot. I´ll also cover it with some of all soil and sand that has to go somewhere. Usually I have about one feet of soil and then pure sand. On the pondspot it´s of course the only place in the garden that there is soil almost half a meter down :-)

This is not the shape the pond will have in the end since I´m making it wider. 1,5 meter isn´t that wide after all :-) But I did want a small pond and small it is :-)

Almost there now. I´ve made a mark on the spade so I would know when I reached 75 cm.