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On many pages of this Site I tried to describe my great adventure with Yngve's garden, which started one dark evening in November 1994, when I planted first shrubs on the empty piece of raised bed beneath his balcony. This piece I called after 'Beneath the Balcony' and it was just south site of the house. But a little to the left (seeing from balcony) it was East Side of the house, where also something like another raised bed has been, and there were 2 fruit trees. Only a plant behind them it was the great Rhubarb, which I discovered not yet at the beginning. Today the pictures of this piece of the garden are historical, much is changed. On the picture you can see a sort of fence (Swedish "staket"), very simple and primitive, more symbolic than really working. So I called the area around those 2 fruit trees ' Staket', means 'The Fence Area'.
You can see that Yngve's garden was lying up on the little hill, the house you see there is the neighbour's. The poorly flowering tree on the picture there is the old plum tree 'Victoria' which I pruned quite hard because it was in a very bad condition, affected by fungus Molinia.
The landscape from Yngve's garden is very picturesque, with the rocky hills around.
It is April 1996 on the picture, next year after I had started making garden for Yngve. He has made some boxes of the old wooden planks and old windows, we filled it with a new soil and I tried to grow vegetables here. It was only place I have for it purpose and it was also rather near to the kitchen.
There were not only vegetables there. To the left from the plum tree there was a quite large, older cherry tree as well, and this I had to prune very hard also, because of Molinia illness. Between those two trees I've got an idea to plant some shadow tolerated plants or shrubs, because on this side the house gave quite a lot of shadow most of the day. Of coarse, like most of people do, I believed the Rhododendrons will be the most right.
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East - South
Part 1
The first was Rhododendron with a name 'Daydream' (Left), but unfortunately it occurred the name was wrong, it was probably 'Baden Baden'. Soon we have bought another one, 'Goldsworth Yellow' (right). Between both Rhododendrons the Pieris japonica was planted. May 1996
'Goldsworth Yellow' started flowering already in June the same year and the name was all right, although flowers were white, not yellow.. Here you can see also an Azalea mollis (orange flowers), not yet planted, which Yngve won on the Plant Lottery. June 1996
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Bouquet Rose', in front of Rh.'Baden-Baden' in July 1997. It was planted only a year ago as a cutting from a PINK plant on the North Side of the house . Here I used a sour peat in the planting hole to get flowers blue.
This part of the garden, a little one, has changed quite a lot in course of years. First idea it was to grow the shadow tolerant plants like Rhododendrons, Azaleas, also Hortensias, some Hostas and Rodgersia. But it was also sunny spots close to cherry tree and there I even planted 2 roses and some Clematis (close to this poor fence you can see on the picture). And a little bit from the fruit trees there were "boxes" (raised beds) filled with soil there the sun was at least half a day and I used to plant there some vegetables.
My ambitions to grow many sorts of vegetables has failed after the butterflies' larvae discovered that they love them as well. It was almost nothing left for me, so I finish with broccoli, even with radish and other. I only grew lettuces so far as slugs let know about them. With much efforts I could have some lettuce anyway and I can say that growing 'Rocket' was most successfully, any slug or snail liked it!
Left: The "boxes" (you can see here a frame of an old window) filled with soil there I tried to grow vegetables.
In shadow there are 2 Hostas and close to the fence - wild Lupines, which was a native, local plant in the area. Early July 1997.
An potato-plant, lettuce 'Bijou', very ornamental, and chives.
Even some potato plants give enormous satisfaction for tongue, believe me - the taste is entirely different than from supermarket!
Left: Cichorium intybus, probably wild, and flowers of Petroselinum, which is sown itself. July 2002
Both pictures, Above and
Above Right are from 2002, June and July
First Clematis I tried to grow there was a Polish sort 'Niobe'. It was meant for it to climb the plum tree. But the soil under the tree was very compact and loamy, dry at the same time and 'Niobe' died next year.
Next, in 1999, I have planted several Clematis sorts along the fence, which I 'enriched' by planting a row of Salix twigs, and making the alive fence of them after they had been plaited in 'diamonds'. They became probably a competition to poor Clematis, which have not grown especially well.
Left: Clematis x jackmanii 'Niobe' - July 1996
Right: Clematis of unknown name, has been bought from Estonia, maybe 'Propertius'. Apparently a sort of 'alpine', blooming only in spring time.
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Left: 1.Lettuces border in June 2001;
2.Lettuce 'Bijou' in July 2002
I liked to mix vegetables with flowers and most suitable to this are marigold.
Left+Right - self sown Calendula after I sown different varieties once, here mixed with ex. dill, the 17th July 2004.
Left: Self sown Calendula, as late as the 10th October 2005
Right: Close to vegetable and near to the "fence" I planted once in 1998 the Delphinium 'Magic Fountain', grown from seeds. Unfortunately it did not wanted to live there and disappeared next year
Above: Helianthus tuberosus,with edible tubers, and daisy- flowers - end of August 2002
Left: Hellleborus argutifolius
(or H. vividus subsp. corsicus), planted about 1997; Closer Left: May 1998 and farther 10th May 2002 (the digital pic). It grew very well several years and flowering every spring, also spread itself around with time.
Just at the fence (around year 2000 the Salix twigs were planted
and plaited in square check pattern, to create an living fence) some plants were planted, as well 2 sorts of roses. On 3 pictures 'Lill Lindfors' in June and July 2001 and 2002 and on one, the right, a little floribunda 'Rosali', the
6th July 2003.
Plum Tree 'Victoria', a very tasty, early plum fruits, but unfortunately, very susceptible to fungus Molinia. That was because I pruned the tree very hard about 1996 (first picture high on the page). After my surgery on the tree, it flowering much better (pic.above,1998) and fruiting (pic. above lower, Sept.2000)
Between the vegetable boxes and "fence", towards 'The Cherry Tree', quite a lot plants and even shrubs have been planted within some years period. First they were Rhododendrons - the first, wrong labeled as the 'DayDream', occurred to be rather 'Baden Baden'. Just next door the Hydrangea 'Rose Bouquet' cutting was planted in a sour peat to be blue - and it was sky blue, despite mother plant had pink flowers. Around 2001 next door to the blue Hortensia the 3 other in 3 colour shades from BAKKER have been planted, they had got fantastic autumn colours of flowers.
Left: Hydrangea 'Rose Bouquet' in 1999 and the 30 July 2001.
Above: 3 Hydrangeas from BAKKER the 3rd November 2001.
Left:Hydrangea macrophylla lacecup and H. macrophylla cuttings in 2 colours, already with flowers, in 2000.
Right: The same cuttings in the end of August 2001.
I pruned my Hydrangeas in early spring, often even already in February. The pieces of shoots I put to the ground (sometimes iced) around mother plant - and many of them became new plants! In this way I have got my blue Hortensia. Above I showed the cuttings of other sorts, planted probably in 1999 and flowered already next year.
Behind of the cherry tree the shady spot has got sun only early morning. There was a big rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) planted by somebody before me, probably even before Yngve has bought the house. The Rhubarb was growing on the edge where the surface started to slope against more rocky piece with some small depressions which retained water. In one spot there were large Juniperus and probably Thuja and plenty small trees from countless suckers and seedlings produced by these two large older trees, cherry and plum. There I have planted first the new sort of Rhubarb - ’Elmblitz’, possibly with less of acids which are harmful for people with arthritis; later the beautiful Rodgersia podophylla with bronse leaves was planted. About year 1997 or 1998 I planted the little seedling of Rhododendron, probably hybrid between Rhododendron yakusimanum and Rh. litens, which I bought at a gardener amateur. It flowered the first time in 2005.
Left: the view from the spot behind the cherry tree. The branches are from the wild cherry trees.
Left: Rodgersia podophylla atropurpurea - first flowering 4th June 2002.
Right: Rhododendron yakusimanum x Rh. litens and Rodgersia in the spring (18th May 2005) - with almost black leaves, becoming later more green.
1. East - The Fence Area
I must mention, that behind The Fence but more to the right from cherry tree, behind the plum tree, was some plantings as well. First, already about 1996 or 1997, the Hydrangea paniculata with white flowers of 'sugar-head' shape was planted just behind 'The Fence', The flowers get the pink tone later in the autumn. Unfortunately I had not taken any pictures of the shrub or flowers. Later I planted there some gooseberry shrubs as well. One shrub I have found in Woodland, and others, about 4, I have bought. There were white, green and red gooseberries, all very tasty when ripped, but tremendous thorn! On the free space the strawberries were planted as well. Below these shrubs I discovered 5 very straight and handsome young trees, that looked to me to be suckers or seedlings from the Victoria plum tree. I came to idea that I could maybe graft them to be "culture" fruit trees and I thought to try 2-3 sorts of plums on every tree. I found a scientist in The Botanical Institute (next door to The Botanical Garden) who sold us twigs. I made first grafting in early April 1999 and next in 2000, and most of them were successful. About 2002 the first fruits came on the young trees.
2.The South Side of The House
On the right to The Fence was The Garage and just the next door - The Greenhouse. The greenhouse was bought second hand from somebody who must have to resign gardening due to health problems and it was mounted again on the rock, already in 1995, by Yngve, Between the greenhouse and garage it was about 1.5m gap and Yngve tried arrange there a workshop for gardening, which he called for Annexe, with running water, sink, light and even heater. All was functioning rather a short time because of technical problems which Yngve has not sorted out when building. Later it was only a storage for pots, tools, etc.
Left: The garage in April 2006
Right: The annexe and the greenhouse, just built, in July 1995 and in 2000.
Left: The greenhouse inside in the spring 1996
Right: Zucchini-plants, the red pepper, the potato plant in the bucket, in the summer 1996
To the right of the birch (pic above) it was another birch tree, looking not so well. I thought it was to much to have two birches rather close to each other, so about 1996-97 I cut down the tree but I put back in soil 2 stems as a support to the rose I planted there. As usual it was too shallow soil layer on the rock and I built the raised bed of stones to plant the climbing rose 'Goldener Olymp' and 2 Clematis. On the picture to the Left you can see the raspberries and the raised bed, where the little rose plant was already planted. In the left corner of picture the form-cut plant of Artemisia abrotanum. On the spot some bulbs had been planted as well and my grown from seed pansies, 'Clear Cristals'.
Above Right: Pisum sativum, a variety with blue pods, which name I do not know. 6th July 2003
Next door to the greenhouse the young birch tree was growing (see the pictures of the greenhouse above). In front of it I planted Aegopodium podagraria variegatum, decorative weed, and behind the tree - some shrubs of blackcurrant (picture to the Left). In 1995 I planted the raspberries next door to the birch, but soon I could see how aggressive plants they were and in 1999 I have removed them. The picture is taken in the June 2001, when the new house was already almost finished.
At the beginning I planted many vegetables in greenhouse and kept the young plants that have been sown in the house. With years the garden developed more and more and I could not manage to do so much. The greenhouse was not very solid built either, strong winds destroyed many times glass, and to change soil in beds was a very hard work. We have got older and I must have to limit my gardening ambitions. Latest years it was only tomatoes and cucumber plants plus a little of plate, climbing beans grown. But I still grew every year potatoes which should be ready to Midsummer.. and almost always they were.
On the right side of greenhouse the first composter had been built already in 1995. The seeds of Nasturtium were obviously found themselves there and the composter was very quick covered by a dense 'net' of big, climbing plants which have some meters long shoots and large leaves, but not many flowers - the soil was too god. Next years Yngve had built next two containers for composting.
The second vegetable-plot I made next door to the raised bed with the rose. I planted sort of hedge of Aronia melanocarpa shrubs behind a standard of Prunus triloba, and Clematis Dr Rupel in front of it. The hedge should protect in some grade the other plants, and it did when grew to about 3,5m, but shadowed the plot as well. The vegetable-plot 2 was of coarse the raised bed as well. I grew there first much onion and other veges, but later it was mostly potatoes. Behind the rose 'Goldener Olymp' the autumn raspberries have been planted (the last pic Below).
Left: Tulips
'Pinocchio' in 1996. To the right the yet innocent little plant of raspberry..
Right: Pansies
'Clear Crystals' also in 1996
Left:
Narcissus
'Slim Whitman', May 1997
Left: Prunus triloba in May 2002.
Right: The autumn raspberries which are not at all aggressive, and have very large, sweet, almost black fruits about October. In August 1997.
Left:
The Prunus triloba
(planted 1995) and
Clem. 'Dr Rupel' in its feet,
July 1996
Left: The Beta vulgaris Red
(Leaf Beet Group) behind
Prunus triloba,
September
1996
In later years I planted sometimes other vegetables on the Vegetable-Plot2. In 2001 I planted grown from seeds the ornamental Brassica oleracea 'Acefala' Group (Leaf Beet Group) 'Black Tuscany' (Black Cabbage) which is very dark green and 'Redbor', dark purple-violet. The plants grew enormous tall (almost 2m). 'Redbor' overwintered and the next year were covered in the spring with yellow flowers, looking like Forsythia shrubs!
Left and Right:
Brassica oleracea Acefala
'Redbor' in May
the 2nd, 19th and 24th 2002,
without and with flowers
On the right edge of Vegetable Plot 2 I planted one Redcurrant shrub moved from old spot behind the cherry tree, where they were from time before Yngve has bought the house. Next door I have planted Whitecurrant shrub, bought in Garden Centre. The soil layer was there very shallow, so I made raised bed using stones, as it is to be seen on pictures above. Outside the bed, to the right, it was an empty space, where often you could see some rubbish. When I changed old soil in greenhouse beds and replanted all baskets and pots, I must have disposed it somewhere - and in was really only possibly place. After 2 or 3 years the little hillock has been created. I came to idea that I could make there a new planting border. During the year 2001 I put the new compost on the top and I called the border The New Hill. Already the autumn 2001 I planted there quite a lot bulbs. In the spring it looked very nice.
New Hill in May 2002. Behind tulips you can see Redcurrant shrub and deeper in background - Aronia hedge.
New Hill in May 2002, 2003, 2004. White flowers are Cosmos
'Sonata', grown from seeds.
The Little Rockery on the real rock - 'Stenpartiet', has been arranged on the small rock, almost against 'The New Hill', on the other side of the Garage Road. Exactly, it was below the Torgny's (Yngve's son) window. It was a little bit of soil in some crevices and small hollows in the rock but I filled with more soil with a little sand and grit and both planted some plants, and put among them the pots with more flowering or exotic plants (like an agave or even indoor cactus).
Left: The Little Rockery has been started already in 1995, the pic is from June; The Phlox subulata was planted but Juncus effusus not, anyway was allowed to stay
Just behind the composters and even The Second Vegetable -Plot (about it see below) there was the neighbour's land, with a bit of wild nature which we enjoyed quite a long time, until about 2001, when the neighbour has raised a large house of concrete. But before he did, it was the place for the seagulls nests, and even the fox family has lived there! On the picture they are two or three grey chicken on the background of the wild bushes and grasses in the foreground. It was not digital cameras that time (1997) so the chickens are not very well visible, but they are possible to notice. Something looking like a house was only a shed.
Left: The Little Rockery probably in the 1996.
The Sempervivum is flowering and the Leontopodium alpinum (Edelweiss) as well.
Right: 1996. Phlox subulata in three colours was planted, but the yellow flowers are a weed, Barbarea vulgaris var. arcuata, which I liked!
Left: The Little Rockery in the June 1996; 3 colours Phlox subulata, white Iberis sempervirens and some Sedum. The yellow weed (Barbarea vulgaris var. arcuata) was still allowed to grow there..
Left: The Little Rockery in May 1997. The abundance of flowers: salmon Lewisia, white Iberis sempervirens, pink Armeria maritima.
Right: The Little Rockery in end of September 1997 - cacti: hardy Opuntia ssp and maybe Schlumbergera truncata, which was only summer guest either.
Left: The Little Rockery in the summer 1997 - a summer guest, Begonia boliviensis.
Left: The Little Rockery in April 1998
Phlox subulata white and red
Left: The Little Rockery in May-June 1998; Aquilegia alpina, Dianthus gratianopolitamus, yellow Euphorbia cyparissi (or polichroma), Lewisia sp.
Right: Begonia boliviana again, August 1999
The Little Rockery in 2000.
Left: Lewisia - pink salmon, Iberis sempervirens white and possibly yellow Sedum, May.
Right: Dianthus gratianopolitamus
pink, May.
The Little Rockery in 2000. Above Left: July, winter-hardy Opuntias, 2 sorts, survived out several winters with frost sometimes. Above Right: in September 2000
Begonia boliviana in high pot, small cacti, Schlumbergera truncata and a little Agave
The Little Rockery in May 2001.
Left: Dianthus gratianopolitamus
pink.
The Little Rockery in 2001, August - left. Most rockery plants already finished bloom;
Right -September: different sorts of
Begonia in pot keep Rockery a little more colourful.
Left: July 2001;
the flowering
Sempervivum in a bowl on the rock
Left: 22nd June 2003:
Flowering Sedum,
Sempervivum and
Mesembryanthemum crinifolium
Right: The Little Rockery in July 2003
Left: The 28th May 2003.
The flowering
Lewisia and
Sedum
Left: The 26thApril 2005. The pink flowering Arabis caucasica Rosea, sown by me
Right: 6th July 2005:
Self-sown flowers on the edge of the Little Rockery, possibly Malva moschata or maybe
Lavatera sp. In the background the climbing rose 'Swany' in the container on the South Wall.
The pictures taken in 2005 have been my last from the Rockery and some of the last in the garden. The next spring I fell very ill and the spring 2007 Yngve suddenly died. His children and former wife tog over and did not let me even visit the garden.
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3. The Little Rockery
5. The Scent Hill
The Scent Hill - 'Doftkullen' in Swedish, has been the next raised bed arranged on the South Side of the garden, means in the spring of the 1996. Why Scent Hill? It was because I planed to plant there scented flowering shrubs, Convallaria majalis (I planted pink) and possibly some more plants with scent. The place was of course not at all prepared to plant anything, it was very close to 'The Strawberry Hill' and quite alike filthy. It demanded as well a lot cleaning work and new soil before I could plant anything. Anyway, about June 1996 you can see even a lot of already flowering plants there!
Left and Right:
'The Scent Hill' in June 1996, after has been recently built and planted; some rockery plants and one Papaver paeoniflorum which came to me itself from nowhere!
Above: One shrub and some spring bulbs which have been planted a year before; Many Muscari and some tulips in May 1997; Left: Pulmonaria saccharata 1997: Right: Hostas, Aquilegias. Rose 'Iceberg' (no flowers yet) in June 1997
5. The Strawberry Hill
The Strawberry Hill has been the next raised bed I started to make (besides 'The Rosary' which was began a little earlier) after that which I called for 'Below the Balcony', and from which we started with Yngve whole the garden. I have built 'The Hill', without yet decision what I wanted there. It was the pile of leftovers after build works, but also much simply different trashes and wastes. It was till example plenty of sand and smaller or larger stones there. I tried to clean the spot a little and cover wastes with soil, but I have always very limited means. It was not much soil there and I have not either plants to plant, so I planted there strawberry plants which I found somewhere on the area. And later we have really much luck to find on the Volvo land the real Wild Strawberries, which I planted with success on the new "hill". They obviously thrived in Yngve's garden because they spread themselves enormous with all the years I have been there..
Left: The place in the spring 1995, with mostly wild plants. Below in June-July 1996, Strawberry groups and alpines.
Above, Below and Left: The Strawberry Hill about May-June 1997, full of flowering alpines and both sorts of strawberries.
Right: Blue net had to protect our berries against birds, but after one was caught in, we resigned.
Left: Two pictures from 1998, Strawberriese are still but many other flowering alpines and one Heuchera as well.
Right: The Strawberriy Hill in June 2003. Still there is the colourful spot in the garden.
6. The Stone Bed & Singer Spot
7. The Rosary
Right: The same rockery plants a year later - Heuchera
disappeared.
June 1997
Above: Myosotis sylvatica 'Rosy Iva' pink and
Saxifraga arendsii -'Peter Pan' - June 1998
Left: Philadelphus coronarius first bloom in June - July 1997;
Below Left: Aruncus Dioicus wipes and Rosa 'Iceberg'
in full bloom
Right and Right Above: Flowering
Hosta fortunei and still with flowers Rose 'Iceberg',
October 1997
Right: Viburnum x burkwoodii first bloom, with red tulips at feet, which had unusual colour - red-marine, on the picture Right:
May1998
Below: Philadelphus coronarius in July end 1998
Left: June 1998; Mahonia aquifolium flowering,
Narcissus, Tulips, probably
Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Plumosa Aurea', "dwarf" which became already big
Left: In May 2002 Narcissus
'Bel Song' and tulip, the same as Right: Tulips 'May Wonder' , both on the "castle" for the rose
'Iceberg' which died, June 2001
Right: July 1998; Phildelphus coronarius and a piece of house;
Below Right: The flowering branch of Philadelphus coronarius the 25th June 2002
Left: Myosotis sylvatica 'Rosylva' pink and Aquilegia alpina
May 1998
Right: Actinidia kolomikta climbing in old Juniperus, May 2000
Right:Viburnum opulus the first bloom was in 1997, the picture taken the 8th June 2002
Right: Saxifraga fortunei, probably autumn flowering, 1998
Right:
Dendranthema grandiflora
1st October 2005. Planted on the ''Castle'' for the rose 'Iceberg'. You can see huge branches of "dwarf"
Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Plumosa Aurea'
Above: 3 pictures of selfsown Aquilegia, growing below Chamaecyparis
Before 'The Scent Hill' was created we began to work over the area where we thought could be suitable to grow roses, and we called it proudly 'The Rosary'. It was the largest and most difficult project in the garden, started already in early spring 1995. The bed was very hard to prepare because of wild bushes in and around and plenty of large stones. We must have remove all this, stones and even plenty of roots to fill with new soil.
While digging, Yngve and me have met an enormous stone, extremely hard to dig out, but we manage it and moved it close to the birch, near to the road, almost in the wild Juniperus. Between the stone and 'The Scent Hill' I have made a miniature raised bed which I called for 'The Stone Bed' and next door I arranged a spot with flower arrangement on the Singer sewing machine cast iron frame as a pedestal, which I called 'The Singer Spot'. These two places are adjacent to 'The Rosary'.
Above and Right: 2 pictures of The Stone taken in 1995.
Right: 3 pictures of 'The Singer Spot' - taken in 1997, 1999, 2002. On the "pedestal" in the fruit-box was every year the trailing Tropaeolum variegatum 'Jewel of Africa' or 'Out of Africa' planted, and always the pots with flowers have been located below the pedestal as well.
Left: The Singer frame as a pedestal with white daisy (Chrisanthemum) and
Tropaleum, in July 1999
Above: The Tropaeolum majus 'Out of Africa' planted in the fruit-box, the 30th July 2001
Above: 4 pictures of 'The Stone Bed' . On the pictures are mostly Heucheras, with the red flowers - Heuchera sanguinea 'Jonatan', dark leaves - Heuchera 'Obsidian', the blue flowers - Phlox divaricata, or Myosotis palustre, or M.sylvatica. Pictures have been taken: The 30th May 2004, June 2004 (not digital camera Minolta Riva), the 27th May 2005, the 24th June 2005.
Left: 'The Singer Spot' still with Singer-pedestal and the hanging basket in the birch (with sown by me Petunia 'Frillytunia').
Below the Singer and the birch traditionally pots with miniature roses and other flowers, in July 2003. But the same spot on the picture Right, taken in July 2004 the Singer has been replaced by the real pedestal, but of cast iron as well. The rostig Singer has been namely broken. .
Left: Petunia
'Frillytunia' in the hanging basket in the birch, July 2003
Left: 'The Singer Spot' after the Singer did not exist any more.. The cast iron pedestal and all in spots, mostly the miniature roses. You could also see a piece of 'The Stone Bed' on the left corner of the picture.
Right: The miniature rose 'Bella Rosa' on 'The Singer Spot' the 20th July 2004
As it was said before, 'The Rosary' was the largest and most difficult, but also the earliest project in the garden. We began prepare the bed in early spring 1995. It was necessary to remove all stones, plenty of roots and even some wild bushes, and to fill the big hollow with soil, which was almost not on the spot, and rather much loamy. We have a luck to buy a very good compost from the horse stall, but we did not know that roses like more the clay, loamy soil.. but we mixed all we have together and it was not so bad. Maybe thanks to the ''horse compost'' - roses love horse manure! One of the dug out stones was enormous and extremely hard to dig out, but we managed it and we moved it close to the birch, near to the road, almost in the wild Juniperus. Some huge rocks was not possibly to move or they have been a part of the hill, on which the Yngve's house was built. About June 'The Rosary' area has been ready and first shrubs and roses planted. Then, after I observed the local climate, I could see that our future rosary can fail because of very strong, salt winds from the close creek. We visited the old, real nursery growing on the place all plants (nowadays nobody is doing this, all is imported from Holland) and we got offered, very cheap, 14 young trees of Acer campestris to make high and dense hedge, very hardy and wind tolerant. The trees looked like a pins, and I planted them after I built - of course - the additional raised bed, this time using concrete puting stones together. 'The Rosary' was completed already in October 1995..
2 pictures Left: The place for future 'The Rosary'
Right: Anna pushing the biggest stone
All pictures taken the spring 1995
2 pictures
Left: The stone is close to be out; Yngve trying to move it
2 pictures
Right:The stone is already on the planed spot
Left: Some of stones we dug out and put on the side.
Right: One of first roses planted in 1995 -
Left: Acer campestris planted as a hedge, October 1995
2 pictures Right: The first roses has been planted in the hedge, 'Flammentanz' and in front of it - the rose
'Freddy'
Above: Roses already planted: Aloha, Westerland, Raubritter, Bonica, Flammentanz, Marcheland July 1996
Left: Planted 1995 'Westerland' is already a nice, large shrub, July 1996
Left: The Rosary as seen from 'The Singer Spot' in summer 1996. The fruit-box with plants (Impatiens hawkeri) is on the left corner.
Right: 'The Rosary' in September 1996.
Right: Cosmos 'Sonata',
white dwarf, grown by myself from seeds, September 1996.
Above: 'The Rosary' in June 1996.
Left and Right:July 1997.
Many Cosmos,
many self sown Papaver paeoniflorum.
Left and Right: Wild Sedum,
possibly album,
between the stones in 'The Rosary', 1997
Left and Right:
July 1997.
Yellow lilly Hemerocalis,
unknown variety.
Many self sown Papaver paeoniflorum.
Left: Paeonium 'Shirley Temple' first flower and
Below: Clematis 'Hagley Hybride' June, 1st flower as well, 1997
Left: White Crocus Joan D'Arc,came here itself.
Right: Arabis caucasica Rosea sown by me, planted in the hedge of Acer campestris.
Both pictures April 1999
July 1999.
Left: Monarda didyma 'Cambridge Scarlet'
Left: 'The Rosary' in July 1997. Blue flowers it is Tradescantia x andersoniana, Red - Monarda didyma 'Cambridge Scarlet'
Right: Spring 1999; Hyacinthi;
the red are 'Jan Bos'
Left:
Godetia grandiflora
'Salmon Princess'
(Clarkia); 1997
Left and Right:
Filipendula rubra 'Venusta Magnifica', July 1999
Left: Carlina acaulis, July 1999
Left: Eranthis cilicica, April - May 2000
Right: Hyacinthi May 2000
Left: Paeonium
'ShirleyTemple'
Right:
Paeonium sp.
Both pictures taken in May 2000
Right: Thalictrum aquilegifolium, May - June 2000
Left: Hyacinthi
May 2001
Right: Clematis
'Hagley Hybrid' late July 2001
Left: White
Crocus 'Joan D'Arc', April 2001
Above: Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, July 2000
Left and Right: Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
July 2001
Left: Cactus Dahlia probably 'Extase'
with Cerastium tomentosum and
Mentha suaveolens the 13th August 2001
Right:Filipendula rubra
'Venusta Magnifica', July 2001
Left: Deutzia x magnifica, the first shrub planted in 1995 in 'The Rosary'. 22th June 2002
Left: Hyacinthoides hispanica (Scilla hispanoides), the 6th June 2002
Right and Below: Paeonium sp., and Delphinium 'Blue Haevenly' no flowers yet, the 7th June 2002
Left: Digitalis purpurea, white, self- incomer to the garden
Right:
Delphinium hybridum Dwarf 'Haevenly Blue';
the 19th 2002
Left:
White
Crocus 'Joan D'Arc',
the 2nd
April 2002
Above from Left to Right: Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus in July 2002, two sorts, but I never knew names. The yellow was especially god, I have bought one plant but I've got three at once, and unusually large flowers all years.
Right:
Malva moschata,
self income from neighbour and settled IN the hedge; the 14th July 2002.
2 pictures Left: 1.Paeonium sp., 3 flowers with Delphinium not yet blooming behind (the 7th June), 2. Peony the 13th June 2002
Right: Delphinium hybridum Dwarf 'Haevenly Blue', drown from seeds, in bloom, the 13th June 2002
Above from Left to Right: The Rosary in June 2002: the 8th and the 27th. White rose is 'Nevada', pink rose is 'Fruhlingsduft'. On the last pic to the right white flowering Deutzia x magnifica and the rose 'Westerland'.
Left: The sunflower,
Helianthus annuus 'Green Ice', the 20 July 2002.
Left: Filipendula rubra 'Venusta Magnifica' in the end of July 2002
Right: Astrantia major with the Chiastophyllum oppositifolium
the 5th July 2002
Above from Left to Right: Cactus Dahlia 'Park Princess' in August 2002: 24th, late August and the 30th
Above from Left to Right: Some roses in August 2002: 'Pink Robusta', a charming rose, in August - shrubs, the tallest is 'Fruhlingsduft', lowest - 'Mozart'; in the lower raised bed the Austin's rose 'Molineaux', the 18th August
Left: Something with thorns as well, mountain thistle, Carlina acaulis, still there since 1998. Late August 2002.
Left: The 11th May 2003, the 'Apricot Beauty', my favourite tulip.
Right: While the pink tulips still are in bloom, the later sort started bloom, the 25th May, 'Queen of Night'
Above Left: Spring again - The 6th May 2003; In 'The Rosary' you could meet almost all sorts of plants. Frittilaria meleagris thrived there very well, it sowed itself very much, but in some spots they came almost only white;
Above right: The 10th May 2003, maybe the 'check' pattern is a little later...
Left: The same
Hyacinti
like since some years, but red are almost gone. The 4th May 2003
The 'Queen of Night' takes over, 'Apricot Beauty' started to fade. The togetherness was short..
Left: The 25th and
Right: 26th May 2003
Right:To the Yngve's garden imigrated all possible sorts of local plants, and almost all of them have been welcommed. Here is the charming pink Dianthus, probably anatolicus or caesius at the edge of The Rosary, 21st June 2003
Above from the Left to the Right: The Rosary is anyway the place to grow roses. Already in the middle of June started bloom the 2 giants of the rosary, Rosa moyesi 'Nevada' and Rosa spinosissima 'Frulingsduft'. The last mentioned repeats not very much later in summer, but 'Nevada' flowers almost continuously, but not as abundant as on the picture. Pics taken: the 16th June, the 18th June and the 19th June 2003.
Above Left: The 'PinkRobusta' at the beginning of July 2003; next: The 'Flammentanz' on the top of the hedge the 17th July; Right: The shrub of 'Aloha' in August 2003
Right: Tulips:
'Carneval de Nice', 'Burgundy Lace', Lily-flowered
'Aladdin', May 2004
Left: Parrot Tulips 'Fantasy'
on the "slott" with 'Bonica' rose, the 15th May 2004.
Right: Tulips:
'Carneval de Nice', and fringed
'Burgundy Lace'
Right:
Portulaca grandiflora,
pretty annual with diverse colours double flowers. The 18th August 2003
Above Left: The 'Spiraea cineria 'Grefsheim', planted maybe 1-2 years before, pic taken in May 2004; Next: The 'Fruhlingsduft' the 12th June 2004; Above Right: The flowers of 'Westerland' the 28th June 2004
Above: Tradescantia x andersoniana June 2002.
Right:
Annual Salvia horminum (viridis) sown by me. July 1998.
Above : Top of the shrub 'Fruhlingsduft' remonted often in August, on the pic the 16th August 2002
Above Roses, Left: 'Mozart', and Right: 'Raubritter', the 5th July 2002
Above Left: Puschkinia scilloides libanotica & Scilla sibirica the 26th April 2005. Next: The Anemone blanda 'White Splendour', the 26th April 2005; Above Right: The tulips 'Purissima',
Left: Fritillaria meleagris, the 12th May 2005. Above: Tulips 'The Queen of Night' and one 'Apricot Beauty' the 17th May ; Next 2 pictures: Above and Right: The tulips 'Apricot Beauty' and 'Queen of Night', the 17th May 2005
Above Left: The Rosary the 25th June 2005 - dominant shrubs of 'Fruhlingsduft' & 'Nevada'. Next: The shrub of 'Aloha' the 5th July 2005 ; Above Right: The rose 'Molineaux' with the Tanacetum parthenium in the background, self sown, 6th July 2005
4 pictures of Zinnia elegans grown from seeds and one Dahlia 'Diamond', all taken the same day, 4th October 2005
Above and Below Left: 'Old Scabiosa', despite a very different look; in the Middle and Above Right: Zinnia 'Whirligig Fun'
Right: Dahlia.
Above Left and Right: Clematis 'Hagley Hybrid' the 25th June 2005. Between them the picture of Paeonium 'Shirley Temple'.the 29th June 2005;
Right: Remonted (repeating bloom) 'Nevada' and 'Pink Robusta', the 26th June 2005.
The Fortress, The Triangel and the Street - in part 2
Above Left to Rght: Rose 'Westerland', the 27th June 202, Rose 'Pink Robusta' the 6th August 2002, Rose 'Nevada' the 8th 2002, Rose 'Frühligsduft' the 25th Jue 205
