Paeonia veitchii. I can´t find any english name for it. Comes from China and Sibiria. We call it The rose paeony.

It´s cold outside today. It´s almost nine am and it´s not even five degrees C (41F ) outside. On top of this it rains too. So I´ve told my dogs that there will be no walk until it gets a bit warmer and the rain slowed down some. They can be in the garden if they want to, but they too are reluctant to go out in rain. But this is the kind of weather that my fuchsias likes so perhaps they can start growing now, until now they sort of are standing totally still. Here inside, my Red Mullberry trees finally has started to grow. I don´t know especially much about that tree but I´ve heard that the berries can taste anything from delicious to plain watery. Does anyone of You know anything about it?

Chenomeles japonica, a relative to the Quince. One get delicious jam of it, but unkooked its like eating a bit of wood.

I´ve had some problems with a computor program that will detect Trojan horses and stuff like that for a while now. I tried to undo some of the last changes it has made and then all hell broke loose. My computor started to shout with an alarmasound that there were a big virus attached to the program. So I had to uninstall it and take care of all viruses the antivirus program found. I had to restart the computor and then it started again! But now everything has been taken care of and a new anti trojanhorseprogram has been installed. Annoying though when that happens. A good thing is that I don´t have my mails in my computor, I use a webb mail service at my internet companie, so I can´t spread the viruses to any one else.

A Polemonium, called Jacobs ladder in swedish.


Rh. Catawbiense blue. It origines from the US and is one of the hardiest one can find. It´s so common over here now that people think it´s boring. I don´t. It can take our climate and always flowers with many many flowers. It´s one of the best we can find over here.

Well it seemes that it´s going to be a day spent indoors today. Yesterday I looked att “Back to the future 2” so I´ll probably look att number three today. I´ve also start looking back in family history a bit. I´ve come rather far back for only have done this for some hours. Our church records are rather exellent to be honest. I´ve heard that they are so good that the Mormones in Utah have copied all there is to copy here. So if You are from the American continent and Your family comes from Sweden You can ask them for help to find out more about Your history.

This Azalea is double and has a weak, but wonderful scent.

Hippeastrum striatum. This one is almost impossible to find out in the stores. It sort of passes from friend to friend instead. It always comes with two flowers at the same time, but I sort of broke one on this bulb.

I started this to see if I could find out from where my, on my mothers side, grandmothers grandmother comes from. I´ve heard everything from that she was Gypsie, from India and Hungarian but it seemes as if she possibly was from Italy. Or if it´s her mother that came from abroad. The handwriting in these old church records isn´t the best. Her last name is typically swedish, but there is a marking in the area for how many marriages she have had. I can´t for my life figure out if it´s a one or a two written down there. But there are many different church records I haven´t checked yet.

This stack of branches becomes

this instead. They make fire logs of it and I´ll probably buy some of this next autumn :-)

The sky is getting lighter so perhaps it will get a bit warmer too? Anyway, it´s time for a cup of tea I feel and then a film.
Have a great day now!

Lupines can be found all over the country even if it hasn´t grown in this country for especially long time. About two hundred years ago it was brought here from the American continent and then it spread :-)

They come in all colours, but blue is the most common.