The day started out as sunny and rather warm. But now it´s much colder, cloudier and very windy.

I don´t have much to say today. My brain sort of has closed down and I´m mostly tired all the time. I think a cold might be comming my way. My brother has gotten one a week ago and still is rather sick. Perhaps he got the swine flu?



We have just gotten the first serious case of swine flu over here. A 22 year old man. He know can´t breath for him self so they use an artificial lung, a mshine, to breath for him. But the doctors belives he will come through it all. It´s the young ones that will get struck worst by this flu. We older has already got a similar flu and has some protection against the swine flu.

This is one of my absolute favourites in my garden, Ratibida pinnata or Yellow coneflower (or Prairie coneflower). It´s still a long time until it flowers though. It´s really rare in gardens in Sweden and I have always wondered why.


Another northamerican favourite of mine. Illiamna remota, Kankakee mallow. If possible more rare in gardens here than the cone flower. Starts flowering in mid summer until frost takes it. Should be much more popular than it is.

Look at the single flower, it´s so beautiful!

This one we call Rose mallow and seeing the bud open one can understand why. It´s just like a rose bud.

But opened it´s just like most mallows and they are all beautiful.

Praktlysing, Dotted Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata) is really invasive, so one beter plant is so the lawn mower can cut around the flowerbed. I love it though. This doesn´t grow naturally in our nature, but it is a garden runner so now it can be found almost everywhere near an old garden.

It has some swedish relatives though. This one is called Lysimachia vulgaris (common lysing in swedish or Garden yellow loosestrife in english) also very invasive if living in wet areas.

The last rubber carpet is finally dug down. I´m not totally happy with the result in the back. The folding rises over the water so I have to use some big stones to get it down.

I finally dug down the last of the rubber carpet on my pond yesterday. It didn´t come out well in the back, the folding sort of rises up over the waterlevel. So I´ll have to find a couple of big stones to put on, so it´ll sink down. The edges will now be cowered with peat blocks. I´ll also have peat blocks to end the flowerbeds towards the lawn. But those peat block aint cheap so that´ll take some time. But now at least the pond is finished. The water became very muddy, so yesterday evening I ordered a pond pump and a pond filter. If I´m lucky I´ll have it by thursday.

Now I will make a pot of tea and try to stay awake. Tonight is the very last episode of 'Midsummer murders' and I woun´t miss it for anything in my life :-)

Have a great day now!