The wild Goose berries are starting to ripe now. They are very small but oh so tasty.

It has been raining all morning, sometimes just a drizzle but mostly heavy showers. A weather best watched from a window. But I had to drive to Falkoping today to buy a gift for my nieces doughters baptism on Sunday. It was a long time since I had yo buy such a gift but I remember that I then bought a cup and a deep plate in china and cutlery with the same cute bunny pattern on it.

They didn´t have the same patterns any more, but they had pictures from our most popular childrens songs from early late century on it instead. Painted by one of our most loved painters (and writers) ‘Elsa Beskow’ (Click on her name and pictures that she has painted will be shown). Her most popular paintings were of those painted to childrens tales and children songs.

This little weed is called Earth smoke both in swedish and english (Fumaria officinalis). It´s an annual that is more than welcome here in my garden. It´s not agressive in any way and I love those small flowers.

This is a Fox glove hybrid of some kind. If You want it in Your garden it usually dies, but if You don´t want it, it becomes a terrible weed :-) I usually take away over a couple of hundred plants in my garden every year :-)

Tomorrow it´s Midsummers eve and that is a big holiday here.Many will get drunk for the first time in life and perhaps a sexually transmitted disease at the same time. Not to mention the result that will come in nine months :-) If the weather is nice there´ll probably be a messy holiday with lots of fights and alcohol related problems, so the police and many others are hoping for a rainy day. I personally thinks it´s sad that everything turns towards winter again, so I woun´t celebrate it at all. But in a couple of days I forget about that and then I enjoy the rest of the summer :-)

This one we call Dragon nepeta in sweden. Like all nepetas it has a strange scent on its leafs if one strokes them. In the beginning it´s rather a gentle flower that looks as if it has problems surviving, but that´s just a disguise :-) It doesn´t spred very fast but the plant it self gets so big that it sort of kills anything that comes in its way :-)

The iris bud I showed the other day has now opened. Really beautiful I think. Now I only have to find out what kind it is. I think it´s something I have sown myself.

The same flower from above.

My new mobile phones arriwed today :-) It´s an Ericsson C702 with a 3,2 megapixel camera and a Samsung something. The Samsung something is going to be a spare phone, it´s rather uggly but since it´s extrasafe toward dropping it on the ground it´s a perfect phone for me :-) There´ll be no digging for the pond today since the weather is like it is, but it´ll be better tomorrow they say. I´ve already bought some plants to have in the pond and until it´s filled with water they have to stay in a rainwater barrel.
Have a great day now!

Paradisbuske or in english 'Beauty bush' (Kolkwitzia amabilis) I´ll take a picture when all flowers are open.

I have a Gullklematis or Orange peel clematis in english (Clematis tangutica) climbing in one of my apple trees. By doing so the apple tree "flowers" for so much longer.