VINTAGE Ornaments and Greetings.

© This post was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/ ...Well, soon the Christmas is over and we have to tidy away all the lovely Christmas ornaments and décor. But first I would like to show you some of my favourite Christmas ornaments.Nancy at Soliloquy wrote a very interesting and nice post about the history of the Christmas ornaments.

CHOCOLATE - for taste, lust and joy!

© This post was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/ ... ...Chocolat un moment de vèritable plaisir...did you know that chocolate stimulates the same lust center in the brain as sexual activity?...'Mozartkugel', truffles and home made chocolate for christmas. We made almond paste and marzipan this year out of which we then formed round

SEASONAL GREETINGS

© This post was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/ ... Seasonal greetingsFrom all of us to all of you, we wish you....Merry Christmas, God Jul, Gezur Krislinjden, Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah, Feliz Navidad, Eguberri On, Vrolijke Kerstmis, Feliz Natal, Tchestita Koleda, Gladelig jul, Joyeux Noël, Kala Christouyenna, Selamat Hari Natal,

Self-sown and Wild - IT'S BLOOMING FRIDAY!

© This post was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/ ...It is Blooooming Friday again ! No 6.This time I have choosen the 'Wild and Self-sown'. In my kitchen garden I have this mix with herbs, veggies and flowers I have found that it is the way they prefer to grow, I get a healthy and colourful kitchengarden. Violaceae - Pansy - Pensé in

S:t Lucia and SAFFRON BREAD - The Recipe

© This post was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com ...... My brothers daughter Emma as Lucia S:t LuciaSaffron Bread - A Swedish Recipe - LussekatterThis is as I promised earlier the recipe of the very traditional Swedish saffron bread called Lussikatter. This is the bread we eat during Advent, for the day of S:t Lucia that is on the 13th

Flowers in India - It's Blooooming Friday!

© This post was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com...Blooming Friday - blommig fredagUpdated versionFlowers I briefly met in India and unfortunately we were not properly introduced....Flower nr 1. In the gardens by Mahatma Gandhis grave at Raj Ghat in New DelhiIt is Blooming Friday AGAIN, gosh times really flies away especially now during

Leufstabruk - Orangery and Mansion

© This post was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com...Leufstabruk Orangery and Mansion -Leufstabruk Orangeri och HerrgårdWhen we meet Leufsta today she is dressed in December colours, it is cold and already dark despite it is just three o’clock when we walk through the baroque gardens of Leufstabruk. Last time I visited Leufsta it was

Blooming Friday - Orchidaceae Phalaenopsis - AN ALIEN?

© This post was originally uploaded and written by Tyraat the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com ...Today I join Katarina from Roses and Stuff with a post on the theme Blooming Friday!I start my first Blooming Friday with an Orchid. Tadaa...The PhalaenopsisThe Phalaenopsis belongs to the huge Orchidaceae family and the Phalaenopsis have some 60 species. Some are usually called Moth

What happened to 'Make Love not War' ?

Tyra wrote this post at the blog Tyra’s Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com ...Ipomoea 'Heavenly blue' ...Read Green thumbs post In search of Peace Green thumb, Saharanpur, INDIA... Today I lit a candle for Peace and against violence. What happened to Make love not war! and LOVE, PEACE and understanding...?This is a Swedish song it's about lighting a candle for the children walking this Earth.'

The Start of the Season of Advent.

Tyra wrote this post at the blog Tyra’s Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com...Advent Sunday Advent Sunday is the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day.It also marks the start of the wonderful season of Advent.The first candle is now lit and we are entering the season of Advent. Today the family gathered to celebrate the first Sunday in Advent. Baking the wonderful Swedish saffron bread which filled

I WONDER IF I CAN TEMPT YOU WITH AN APPLE?

Updated on the day of Thanksgiving. DO YOU FOLLOW? Pomona was the goddess of fruit trees, gardens, and orchards in the Roman mythology. Her name Pomona comes from the Latin word pomun – fruit.Hello all readers of the Tyra’s Garden blog.I have just added a new widget 'Followers' to my blog and it does look rather sad 3 followers is that all? Of course not but it is a start. ...I wonder if I can

Winterland - It's snow

Tyra wrote this post at the blog Tyra’s Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.comSNOW!Isn't just wonderful...Welcome into the greenhouse... and read more about the blue hour.TYRA

Asexual reproduction and I have got a baby!

Tyra wrote this post at the blog Tyra’s Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com. If you are not reading it at Tyra’s Garden, then this content was stolen without permission. ...Asexual reproduction...This is the proud mother....Some species, as some Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium and Vanda, produce offshoots or plantlets formed from one of the nodes along the stem, through the accumulation of growth

Mother Earth's Wild Flowers Garden - Uppland

Tyra wrote this post at the blog Tyra’s Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com. If you are not reading it at Tyra’s Garden, then this content was stolen without permission. Mother Earth's Garden - UpplandI'm up at my 'summerhouse' again to make the house ready for the winter. There are a lot of things that need to be attended to, empty the water butts (?) storing all the garden furniture etc. As I

The sun came out for a second....

Today, I'm still sad, angry and disapointed and its all that SCOUNDRAL fault that I wrote about yesterday.But then the 'sun came out' to brighten my grey and miserable November day, a friend came along an told me that there was an article in one of the largest papers in Sweden (DN) about garden bloggers. We have great many garden bloggers here and two of my blogs where mentioned as a blogg well

HELP! WHAT IS THIS!!! SOMEONE IS STEALING OUR WORK!

LOOK AT THIS!...http://www.silite.com/Some one is stealing our work...again.Look into what they are doing on this site!What can we do? Have your work been copied!They steal our pictures and words and doesn't even link!My pulse is VERY high and I can feel the adrenaline pumping....I ask you PNT silite.com if you read this - Take away all my pictures and words! ......R.E.S.P.E.C.T Aretha Franklin

Calluna vulgaris & Norrpada Achipelago

Calluna vulgaris & the beautiful Archipelago of NorrpadaMissy M on the rocksHeather Calluna vulgaris Heather is very common out on our beautiful islands in the Stockholm archipelago. Here I want to show a couple of pictures from an island in Norrpada Archipelago that I really like. Sometimes I visualize that Mother Nature has made all this by herself, well perhaps not entirely by herself

A GARDENERS WRAP

A Gardeners Gift WrapTo wrap a present is so fun, I really do enjoy it and this time I wanted to do something different, I went for a stroll in the garden and ended up with this. I just adores the seed capsules of the Papaver, I think they are most fascinating, each one is a small work of art. They are so beautiful therefore I started out with the Papaver then...... POP ART...added a fig (picked

Full of vitamin C and so delicious!

Go out and find these golden red gems - the Rose hips! Full with vitamin C and so delicious!I pick both the wild roses hips Rosa dumalis ( Rosa Canina L.) and......the hips from Rosa rugosa.They are easy to pick it takes just a few minutes but it takes fairly long time to clean them and it is pretty boring but it is worth it.A small and pretty frosen November Rose.MY WILD ROSEHIPS MARMALADE1.5

Emma Karp Lundström - An Apple Artist

Apple painting from 2006 – ‘Äppel, päppel, pirum parum’. (nursery rhyme)...Garden Designer, coach and apple artist Emma Karp LundströmArtist, project managers, stress consultant and garden creator - After many years, Emma Karp Lundström moved back to Gislöv. Based on the family farm she now wants to strengthen the image of Österlen as one of Sweden's most beautiful ‘gardens’. For several years

The Wicked Witches from Waxholm

Spooky...Spooky picture taken of two wicked witches from Waxholm.Happy Halloween to you All !Her in my country we celebrate All Saints Day, that we call Alla Helgons Dag and that is tomorrow, then we light candles for our loved ones that has passed away. We do have Halloween but it is more a commercial spectacular act here, compared to All Saints Day. All the same I wish you all a truly wonderful

and the winner is...Czech's Excellent Yellow

...This is the WINNER of all tomatoes in my greenhouse this year. It's the fellow in the left, bright yellow, perfect in taste, consistency and size. The name is Czech's Excellent Yellow and the seed is from Plants of DistinctionGolden beauty - the Czech's excellent yellow Prolific orange yellow tomato with a strong flavour. 3inches round fruit. Extremely productive and will supply you with a

No Champagne...

No Champagne...big mistakeMonday 27th of October I “revisited” Brideshead during the weekend, 11 hours of the wonderful drama. It is so beautiful and such fantastic ornamental language but… it’s too long and totally uninteresting for about 4 hours in the middle, we all agreed that it varied too much in quality. 5 stars out of 10 possible and those stars were all for the first episodes until poor

Brideshead Revisited

The girls and I are going up the country to Åkerby and spend the weekend together. We are going to have a DVD marathon weekend and this is what's on the meny. Long walks, good slow cooked autumn food, red wine and...Brideshead Revisited - not the film, no, no, no. 659 minutes ofBrideshead Revisited the British television serial ( 1981) based on the novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh.It

Paeonia suffruticosa - 'Feng Dan Bai'

Bud of my favorite Paeonia This is a favorite of mine, the Peony 'Feng Dan Bai' Paeonia suffruticosa herbaceous perennial plant 0.5–1.5 metres tall. Det här är en av mina absoluta favoriter. Pionen 'Feng Dan Bei' en Kinesisk trädpion. Visst är den underbart vacker. Den blommade inte alls i år hoppas att det bara var den usla torra sommaren och att den kommer igen nästa år.Paeonia suffruticosa in

Lena Israelsson - nominerad till Augustpriset!

Lena Israelsson nominerad till Augustpriset med sin fantastiska bok Klosterträdgårdar. Grattis Lena Klosterträdgårdar ( Wahlström & Widstrand) är en mycket trevlig och läsvärd bok som har givit mej många trevliga stunder. Andra böcker av Lena som jag flitigt läser är förstås Köksträdgården och sedan Jorden Täppor. Fler inlägg om Lena Israelsson hittar du härJättekul stort Grattis! / Tyra

Soak the Gardener! - Blub blub in my Tub tub

Soak the Gardener!This is my bathroom I built a few years ago. It has this marine touch, inspired of old wooden boats I built my bathroom in mahogny, with brass details and old furniture and pebbles from allover the world. There is an article in this weeks 'Drömhem & Trädgård' a Swedish magazine (Dreamhome & Garden)I senaste numret av Drömhem och trädgård får ni följa med in i 'The Gardeners

TODAY I'M FILTHY RICH...

NOT!Gold, gold, everywhere and I got it for free! When I was a small girl we call the leaves golden coins. Sometimes I still think of them as gold coins consequently you can imagine that at this time of the year I'm really filthy rich :-) ...Today was the day of the colour Ochre in my garden. Ochre or Ocher (pronounced /'əʊ.kə(r)/, from the Greek ὠχρός, yellow) is a color, usually described as

Recycled piece of furniture.

GARDEN FURNITUREI went to an outdoor auction in the countryside last weekend and look what a found. A pedestal for my greenhouse isn’t it just perfect. Old, worn and a bit shabby but nice, just the way I want it to be. It will be great for the greenhouse and the garden. All my pieces of furniture in the greenhouse are real bargains, they are old and worn, now I have been missing a pedestal and

Wallpainting - I know I'm potty

We planted a seed... Do you remember my Topiary bedroom, we have had an empty pot on the wall for some years now and a few weeks ago we decided to plant a seed. Look what's come up...an Impomea. It's not full grown yet so we cannot begin to trim it into a Topiary Impomea we have to wait for some months, maybe we can start next spring. (old post Topiarius Tyra) Impomea - The Topiary bedroom.

RED

Falu red or in Swedish we call it Faluröd is the name of the beautiful Swedish, deep red paint well known for its use on wooden cottages and barns. The paint originated from Falun in Dalarna ( copper mine) , Sweden. The traditional colour remains popular today due to it's effectiveness in preserving wood it is absolutely fantastic. Easy to paint and it doesn't smell. The earliest evidence of its

Green Metallic Beauty

Cetonia aurata. Rose Chafer - GuldbaggeRare visit in Tyra's Garden the Cetonia aurata on my cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), also called the artichoke thistle which is member of the Aster family. Cetonia aurata, known as the rose chafer, or more rarely as the green rose chafer, is a reasonably large beetle, 20 mm long, that has metallic green coloration (but can be bronze, copper, violet, blue/black

ZOOM - in the Greenhouse

Come with me to the greenhouse...

Always look at the bright side of life!

You have to really take notice of all the beautiful thing that's surrounds us, pleasure and treasure it, especially in these harsh economic times. It's easy to get depressed but I say like The Monty Pythons once said - Always look at the bright side of life!My greenhouse in October.The last of the year... Sweet Pea Lathyrus odoratusand the last blackberriesDon' forget that you can pick the Rose

MISTY

I just want to show you this beautiful October morning. I haven't got many garden ornament but here are a few, the sundail, the crown and my gazebo :-) När jag vaknade i morse låg det fortfarande dimmor nere på ängen nedanför min trädgård. Tänk att jag älskar verkligen min trädgård på morgonen, jag vet inte riktigt varför men det är nog lugnet och den friska luften. Här är några bilder tagna

Philatelic NEWS for a veggie geek.

Harvest stamps from Sweden. New Swedish stamps on my stones from Jaipur. Look what I found in the Post office yesterday! Absolutely perfect for a veggie geek like me. Now I can have 'my own' very personal stamps on my letters. Isn’t that just great? Precis lagom till skördetiden ger posten ut dessa underbara små skönheterna. Jag blev så glad när jag såg dom, de blir ju alldeles perfekt för mina

Powerfood

The Brassica - true Powerfood. They are beautiful and so good for you. .Brassica vegetables are highly regarded for their nutritional value. We should probably eat some Brassica each day. This is a huge vegetable family and they really do come in different shapes, structures and sizes. They provide high amounts of vitamin C and soluble fiber and contain multiple nutrients with potent anti-cancer

Dahlia 'Harvest' - tubers and seeds

It's late September and the frost can come any night now, that means that I have to dig up all my Dahlia plants, it’s so sad that indicates that the summer has definitely ended and the autumn takes giant leaps towards the winter. Time to dig in! On with the Wellington boots and ‘armed’ with a garden fork and my favourite secateurs I spend the whole day digging. Tough work…I store my Dahlia tubers

Blackberries and Gherkins - September

September in the garden time to harvest the last tomatoes, the Mexican gherkins, peppers and chillies. The Mexican sour Gherkins (above on the right) are a true favorite of mine, if you haven't tried them before I really recommend that you to have a go with them. The greenhouse in SeptemberRecept på Björnbärsmarmelad med apelsin 1 liter björnbär, tunnt skal från en ekologiskt odlad apelsin och

Forsmarks Bruk - Walloon Ironworks Town

En skön september dag tog vi bilen och for till Forsmarks Bruk. Det här ar ett av mina favorit bruk. Det är ett av Sveriges bäst bevarade bruk, det härstammar från 1570 talet. Kyrkan invigdes år 1800 och är ritad av Olof Tempelman, lite träffande namn ellerhur?This absolutely gorgeous day in September we decided to go to Forsmarks Bruk. An industrial village where natural resources are processed

A Jewel in Gothenburg - Trädgårdsföreningen

Read about my visit to the fantastic Trädgårdsföreningen in Gothenburg a true jewel.Läs mer i The Greenhouse....om denna lilla pärla i Göteborg. Fotoalbum med lite bilder ifrån mitt besök. PHOTO ALBUM Tyra

Jesus in the green.

Healing - Just one look at this picture and I felt much better. I cannot explain but my headache and cold felt better after studying this picture. Weird? Yes, perhaps but I think I felt the coolness and stillness, it made me lower my head and close my eyes. The picture is taken this August when I visited the beautiful gardens of "Trädgårdsföreningen" in Gothenburg.Jesus in the green

Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris L. about SEEDS

Seed collecting tip from a "seed geek" About collecting seeds from your Aquliegia Vulgaris L. Here is a tip when if you want to collect seeds from your Columbines and you want to have order among all the different varieties, shapes and colours. Put a tag on the plants when they still are flowering, write down the name, colour, height etc. Then you know when it is time to harvest the seeds and

Café and Bakery in Gränna - Fiket i Gränna

Chocolate balls, Sarah Bernards, Tosca, Vanilla Creme Hearts....and I have to choose one! The Bakery in GrännaThis weekend we visited The Open Wharf Boat Fair in Gothenburg and on our way to GBG we stopped in a small and very picturesque town called Gränna. Gränna is famous for a special candy called Polkagrisar they are white and red striped candy sticks that taste mint, very nice but very bad

Tjohoo even more Tomatoes...

They say that food with bright colours are extremely good for you, this must be great then. Although I wonder if I can get an overdose :-)Harvest of the day perfect for a nice tomato sallad. Dagens skörd av fantastiska tomater, det är så jätte kul nu när man nu kan skörda varje dag. Mycket tomatsallad etc. blir det :-)Sedan kan man ju göra fantastiska marmelader på småtomaterna. Här kommer ett

Rain... at last and Tomatoes in abundance

I'm back! Hallo all my garden friends. Fjoo... it has been a really hectic time, so much work to do and drought! I have been totally occupied with watering and working. This drought has been really bad, my garden looks like as if it is october. The bad drought however ended on Saturday because my family had arranged since May to have a big garden party. I nice barbeque for 35 friends, well ...no

Bloggpaus

Buzzzzy- workin' hard and no time for blogging :( Just nu går all tid till att vattna, vattna och vattna och annars är det jobba, jobba och jobba och det finns ingen tid till bloggandet :( Men snart skall det bli ordning på torpet igen! Vi ses/ TYRA

Dangerous Beauty - Nerium Oleander

I had NO idea that this beauty was so poisonous Nerium Oleander...Oleander is one of the most poisonous plants and contains numerous toxic compounds, many of which can be deadly to people, especially young children. The toxicity of Oleander is considered extremely high and it has been reported that in some cases only a small amount had lethal or near lethal effects. ...Visst är den läskigt giftig

Reportage i Amelia nr.15

Den här veckan är det ett reportage i tidningen Amelia om mitt växthus. Det får ni kika på. Det roliga är att jag har tagit bilderna och det är jag stolt över. Skribenten Frida Funemyr är det som har skrivit texten och tagit en av bilderna (klockan), alla de övriga bilderna är foto: Tyra, tagna med Canon EOS 350D.Ha det bra / TYRA

T.G. for my Screensaver

This is my screensaver picture. It is a nice picture to 'dive into' when I need a dose of the garden. Echinaeae and the beautiful butterfly with the fantasic latin name Inachis io the peacock butterfly.July everything are in bloom, the lilies, jasmin, roses, dahlias etc. etc. and I me 'the gardenfreak' haven't got time to enjoy it! I have been working fulltime indoors since midsummers eve and

Heavenly Meringues, Midsummer Holiday and Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Heavenly Meringues3 egg whites2 3/4 dl sugar1/2 teaspoon salt and 3/4 teaspoon of baking sodaWhisk the egg whites hard and add sugar still whisking and then add the rest.Put them in a preheated oven 250 degrees and turn it off, leave them in the oven over night.Can it be easier? This makes 6 big ones and they are so delicious you just have to try them!Maypole at the Pavilion in Resarö,

Midsummer - Midsommar

Midsummer Day the longest day of the year, the night is so light and the air is warm... it's midsummer. This is one of the biggest holidays in Scandinavia, we get together young and old to eat, dance, sing songs and play games.Time for celebration - put on your best summer clothing and go out and enjoy this lovely time of the year. It's party time!Glad Midsommar på Er!Nu är vi inne i Midsommar

Purple June - En Juni i lila

Ops! June started out with an explosion in purple, Irises, Lilacs, Chives, Sage & Rhododendron... the list could go on. I think purple is a favorite, it goes so very well with all the shades of green. In my potager there are of course very much of the colour green, the cabbages, kales, onions and so on and it look really pretty with the violet/lilac/purple. I know in July I will say the same

Sveriges Nationaldag 6 juni - National Day of Sweden

Idag firar vi vår underbara nation Sverige hip hip hurra! Visst är det ett fantastiskt land vi lever i, jag är så glad och stolt att jag är född i Sverige. Fina människor och en sagolik natur, det finns inget som går upp mot gamla Svedala. Man må åka ut i världen och bli fascinerad, imponerad och begeistrad men när man landar på Arlanda så tycker då i alla fall jag att det är skönt att andas '

Archipelago Boat Day - Skärgårdsbåtens Dagdag 2008

I know this has nothing to do with the garden but it is a special day for us in my home town Vaxholm. Vaxholm is a very small town about 25 Km north east of Stockholm, we use to say that it is the capital of the Archipelago. Tomorrow is 'The Archipelago Boat Day' and then all the old steamers and new archipelago boats have a parade from the city center harbor of Stockholm to the harbor of my town

Asparagus leaves and herbs for the gardenToday we have thunder and lightning one minute and the other the sun is out here in Vaxholm. This is what we call typical April wheather hm...but it's May. So when the wheather is like this I think we shall have a nice bowl of soup for dinner together with a fresh baked bread and a nice cheese. I have some nice nettles behind a shed I think I will take

Sigrid's Iris - inquiry

Does anybody know the name of this beautiful Iris? Right now I have it under the name Iris 'Sigrid' and I cannot just rename flowers like that :-) Sigrid is a dear friend of mine that gave them to me last summer. I would be very glad for all information. ...Är det någon som kan hjälpa mej med namnet på den här underbara lilla irisen. Just nu går den under namnet Iris ' Sigrid' efter min gode vän

Tulips in the gravel - Tulipa

Do you remember that I did some late planting of bulbs in November last year?Here are the result, tulips in the gravel! I just love botanical tulips and my deers doesn't likes then, perfect. I think I like them so much because they are 'in floribus' early and they are so small, pretty and really genuine looking. When it's cold they close up and says -"We are freezing where is the sun" and when

Good Morning

Friday morning just before six o'clock. I just couldn't sleep anymore. Got out of bed, made a coffee and took a walk in the garden....what a glorious morning. Tänk att morgonar kan vara så underbara, såhär års kan man bara inte ligga kvar i sängen och gona, nej man bara måste ut och njuta av soluppgången och den sköna friska morgonluften. Fullständigt underbart jag vet inget som kan mäta sig med

Nordiska Trädgårdar 2008 Nordic Gardens

Oh....it was so crowded, we arrived to the exhibition hall one hour after it opened and we couldn't even park the car! After 20 minutes we finally found a spot to park. Here are some pictures of a few things that caught my eyes.Nordiska Trädgårdar 2008, Balcony Specials.Precis som utställningen i somras Ulriksdals Flower Show hade de även här en balkong utställning och det är ju alltid trevligt

Nordic Gardens - the annual Garden Fair

Today is the day that the big annual Garden Fair opens - Nordic Gardens, the biggest garden exhibition in the Nordic region. They open today at ten and I have been invited to visit this event by a blog admire....someone who actually likes my blogs :), thank you very much. I will take my daughter with me and of course my camera and tomorrow I'll give you a guided tour. I found this lovely group of

Are you drowning in seedlings!

Are you drowning in seedlings? Are they taking over the place?Look how my veranda looks right now! It's a mess...and I love it!Welcome to what once was the Veranda! TYRAVälkommen in till min knöfulla veranda!

Black and white or in colour?

TOPIARYThis is my new "ballballconeballballcone flower bed" with Buxus that I planted last autumn.This picture is not a black and white photo, it's March... I thought that the winter was gone but oh no. I know ....it is pretty with snow but I'm so fed up with the winter and I want my garden to be in colour - lush and green! Come spring and make it green!Now and then, oh I really do prefere my

GREEN

I just love the colour of green, don’t know why but I do. I think the love for the colour green grows with time; I mean I didn’t think about it when I started out with gardening a long time ago. Then the flowers and the colours were much more important. Today I think more of the foliage, the structure and the different shades of green. C’est très important n’est-ce pas ? Don’t you agree ? Grün,

Tips 'n' ideas - My "antidepressant" drug

Today I really need an antidepressant drug. The weather is appalling, I had a bad day at work and I think I’m coming down with a cold. I need something to cheer me up!I found these “happy pills” Tyra's Garden with artichokes from Potager du Roi. The potager in July. Summertime how lovely!A simple yet beautiful Dahlia mignon "Firebird"Now I feel a little bit better, tonight I think I'll spend

I have an itch to paint!

Flowers upon the wall?That could be an idea!Lily at Baby TajYou know I love painting as well as gardening. I showed you one’s my “Topiary upon the wall” painting I have done in one of our rooms and after the trip to India I’m so inspired to do some more painting!... perhaps a “flowers upon the wall” room. This is one of the places in India that truly put some ideas into my head. Look at

Are you potty?

My babies are all over the place!Seeds, soil, seedlings and pots, pots, pots everywhere. Now is the time of the year that I occupy most of the windowsills in our house and the veranda I place an extra table for all my babies. This year I have promised my self to take it easy……and that promise is so dreadfully hard to keep. In this cold climate you simply have to start early indoors with

Flowers of India - The Lotus Flower

The biggest flower in India and probably in the world! I stumbled on this magnificent Lotus flower in New Delhi. It is The Bahá'í House of Worship. Isn't it fantastic? Built in 1986, 40 meters tall and it is capable to hold 2,500 people. It's number of visitors per year 4,5 million or 13 000 everyday! More about the Bahá'í religion below.The central theme of Bahá'u'lláh's message is that humanity

I'm back!

Fascinated, dead beat and 6 pounds less of me I’m back after a journey to India.What a country! 1 billion people and it feels like I met at least half of them. This was my first time in India and I hope I will be able to go back, there is so much to discover. Delhi India Taj Mahal Agra IndiaWhenever I go abroad I always look up the botanical gardens, this time was an exception, the nearest I came

Potager in Africa

If you’re interested in growing your own veggies look at these absolutely wonderful pictures from Louis. The picture are taken in Koudougou and that is in Burkina Faso. I just love these pictures with beautiful people and there Potager, there enthusiasm really shows. I wish I could be there and share the joy. Meet Marie Thérèse, Marie Riene, Innocent, Yannick, Ousmane and Sylvain and there work

Vaccinium mytillus - Superfruit

Vaccinium mytillus a SuperfruitBlueberry is not the same as the Swedish Blåbär but they are closely related. The wild Bilberry Vaccinium mytillus is the same as Blåbär and it is a low-growing shrub and the wild or cultivated Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum is a much taller shrub. I took this picture in the woods near my summerhouse, do you know I read somewhere that there are 250 miljon kilos of

Recycling an Old Dead Tulip

This very mature tulip has certainly seen it's best day's. Sometimes I like dead flowers especially tulips they really ages gracefully. This morning I took a picture of this very, very old dead flower (I think it's from last year) :-) Recycled tulip - I added some light, color and ops.... Revived! This is even more colorful version - 'Tulipa colorfullus vulgare' Have a nice week/ Tyra

Topiary - Thai style

A few years ago I visited Thailand and on my way down to Koh Chang (Elephant Island) I met these wonderful Topiary Elehpants at Trat Airport. Aren't they cute? And the shuttle too, look at that absolutely wonderful decorative painting of the shuttle. Topiary the art of creating a sculpture of a plant More Topiary in Tyra's Garden Colourful shuttle at Trat Airport in the province Trat, Thailand

Trädgårdsskribenten Lena Israelsson

One Saturday last summer I got a visit from a person I really do admire a lot. It was the famous Swedish authoress Lena Israelsson. She contacted me one day about a visit to my garden, Tyra's Garden, overwhelmed with joy I said yes of course. She came on a sunny morning and we had a great time. Photos were taken of my garden, she made an interview and she was very kind to sign and write something

New Years Concert, Ivanhoe and a slight hangover

The same procedure as last year! I celebrate the 1st of January 'comme d'habitude'.A concert, a good movie and a slight hangover! New Years Concert in ViennaMaestro George Pretre 2008The 2008 New Year's Day Concert, conducted by the eminent conductor Georges Prêtre for the first time. What an honour, Prêtre is the first Frenchman that concucts th New Year Concert. Maestro Prêtre has a special