I was given an award some time ago, when I didn´t have a computer, by Liz from the blog Mitt liv på Irland, My life in Ireland.

 I´m always glad when getting one, but useless to choose other blogs to send the award forward too. I like all blogs I read and can´t choose :-) But I´ve decided to do half of this. I´m going to tell You seven interesting things about myself. I hope You think they are interesting anyway :-)

This raspberyy plant lacks most of its chlorophyll and will ost likly die young. I see some now and again here and if they just have a little bit more chlorophyll they can live quite long. But I´ve never seen berries on them.

1: I´m terrified by walking stick insects! I got a small one twenty years ago and gave it a big empty aquarium to live in. It was around 2cm (almost an inch) long. But one day when I looked in to the aquarium it suddenly was 25cm (10 inches) long!!! It had also around twenty million small ones . It showed that stick insects doesn´t need males to get offspring. Suddenly all those small ones were all over my home. Thankfully it was winter and open windows all night took care of that problem :-)

A double Greater celadine. It´s a bit of a weed to be honest, but I like it so it can stay wherever it wants to.

2: I´m both left and right handed, ambidexterity. Very practical when working in the industry as I do.

Iris 'Helge'. It must be a German variety becuase only germans can name a flower Helge :-) :-)

3: I bought a sail boat, seven meters long (21 feet) without knowing how to sail. Learning how to do it by following a after a friend listening to what he shouted from his boat what to do next :-) I never learned how to use the motor so I sailed in and out from harbours.

I don´t know the name on this aqulegia. It gets around 15cm high (6 inches).

4: I´ve been on national television three times (around six minutes each time). Swedish televisions most popular garden show back then followed me when I started my gardencentre/nursery. Lots of fun :-) They taped over forty hours where ever I was :-) :-):-) They even called the president of Volvo when the factory I worked in refused to let them in. They did after that phone call :-) :-) :-)

Stylophorum diphyllum, Wood poppy. A north american species that I´m happy to have in my garden.

5: I´m slightly dyslexic and a language snob at the same time :-) :-) That´s not easy :-) :-)

Dicentra (I think it has changed name now though) 'King of hearts'.

6: This I feel is a bit embarrassing, but I think Barry Manilow makes great music :-) :-) Otherwise I really don´t like that kind of music at all.

Euphorbia polychroma, Spurge. The closest thing we come a Poinsetta here.

7: I should have been a two egg triplet. But my mother miscarried the second one and my twin stopped developing quite early. Him I had to remove surgical from my tailbone when I got a huge inflammation there. When my mother went in to hospital for the miscarriage they told her not to be sorry because there was another one in there. My mother’s response was: My good am I pregnant :-) :-) :-)

Haberlea rhodopensis, a close relative to the African violet (Saintpaulia). Grows in my garden on a sandy spot east of the cottage.

Well now it´s time for a cup of cocoa, because I forgot to buy tea again!!

Have a great day now!