Formex mässan i Älvsjö - The Nordic Design Fair

It is Blooming Friday and today I would like to show you what I found at Formex the largest trade fair for Nordic interior design. The company Ceasar Collection - arrenged a competition for florists. Which one of these five participants do you think have the best designed 'room'. The five florists are: (all women) Anna Carlsson, Jenny Söderberg, Anna Berg, Marianne Walldén and Anja Palm.~~~

Blooming Friday - January 2010

The guest are gonethe washing up is doneand this year started with a day with sun.God fortsättning på det nya året! What a great start of the new year, the sun is shining and it is a gorgeous winter day, it couldn't possibly start in a better way. this the first post of 2010 is a Blooming Friday Post and you find more partisipants at Katarina our host.~~~Året började med en fantastiskt vinterdag,

December blooms - Hyacinthus orientalis

Today we have had a terrible winter storm with up to gale force wind and heavy snowfall. It was a complete chaos in the traffic with a total stand still for the busses. Luckily I could convince my colleagues that they could cope without me and my boss said yes. As a result I have had a wonderful day baking a loaf of fruit bread, taking a long bath, doing some tidying among clothes that I never

Wild Sweet Pea from Sicily

This post 'Wild Sweet Pea from Sicily' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden Sicilian Wild Sweet Pea , HeirloomLathyrus odoratus "Franciscus Cupani"An old heritage variety from 1699, scattered with medium sized flowers in violet and purple. Absolutely wonderful fragrance. In this northern climate we sow the seeds in March-June, it takes 10-30 days to germinate, blooms from

Chop,Chop and Slash

..Killer queen that's me...We are going to get the first frost tonight and I'm not at all happy about it. The frost really ruins everything, I have so many more things to harvest and no time....Today I had to kill all the lovely dahlias in my potager, chop and slash. I felt very brutal when I armed with garden fork, scissors and secateurs massacred all my poor poor Dalhias. Now they are laying in

Plum marmalade with Yogi tea

This post 'Plum marmalade with Yogi tea' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden Blooming Friday with Plums and Sweetpeas ~~~ Plum marmalade with a Jamaican touch.This is what you need; 6,5 pounds of plums, about 6dl/20fl.ounces of water, Rom, 1 red hot chilli pepper, YOGI tea and 17,5 ounces of sugar with pectin.And this is how you prepare it.6,5 lbs of plums and about

The last lily of the season

This post 'The last lily of the season' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden It was raining this morning when I went for my morning round in the garden. There are still some lovely blooms to enjoy, roses, dahlias and this the last lily of the season. The lilies has been incredible this year and this is the last one out...a bit sad, it has a different but lovely colouring

Pelargonium - Geranium - Älskade Pellar

Pelargonium - Geranium ... Älskade Pellar!... It is Blooming Friday and I just want to show you some of my Geraniums in the greenhouse. I think they are so lovely, they really add colour to the otherwise rather green greenhouse. ~~~ Ett litet bidrag till Blomming Fredag. Det blir lite pellar från växthuset. Jag tycker de är så underbara, de verkligen är som små färgklickar i det annars väldigt

Zinnia elegans 'Whirligig fun'

This post, 'Zinnia elegans 'whirligig fun' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/Blooming friday at Katarina's Roses and stuff - Katarina askes "Have you anything in your garden that pleases you extra much? - Please write and tell us about it "Well Katarina it must be the Zinnia elegans. I haven’t got many of my favourite flowers(Zinnia)

Blossoms and Blooms in Tyra's Garden

This post, 'Blossoms and blooms in Tyra's Garden'' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/.........Blossom and blooms in my garden just now. Thousands of tiny blossoms of plum, apple, pear, cherry and crabapple adds splendour to my garden now in this glourious month of May.Blackthorn Prunus spinosaBuds and blossoms of AppleThe