onsdag 1. juli 2009
Mine vakre roser - My beautiful Roses
torsdag 25. juni 2009
Planteskilt fra IKEA - Plant signs from IKEA
These plant signs from Ikea was very cheap and you find them in the same department as the flowers. As you can se they are all white put they are easy to write on. I used a permanent marker.
tirsdag 23. juni 2009
Skikkelig St. Hans aften bål - St. Hans evening bon-fire
Akkuarat slik skal det være .
This evening we went to the beach to celebrate St.Hans the longeste daylight in the year. We had a big bon-fire, good food and lot of friends with a lot of kids running around. I loved it.
mandag 22. juni 2009
Revemor med tre unger - Vixen with three kids
Early Sunday morning on my way to Drammen (a city in Norway) this little family were crossing the road. I had to stop to take some photos. Even if the kids were quite big the mother made sure the all want safe over the road.
lørdag 20. juni 2009
Blomsterparadis på Orkerød gård til bra priser
"Mirakelbabyen" min springer ut - My "miracle baby" is bluming"
Here is a new photo of the development of this plant I grew from a cutting. See last time I wrote about this bluming - how it has developed. The Man said it was almost like a birth - "It's someting femal about this," he said - I thought is sounded beautiful when he put it like this. So we are really looking forward to when it open up and we can see the blue, the purpul an red inside it. I will post a photo when it happens.
tirsdag 16. juni 2009
Hva slags blåe blomster er dette? - What kind of blue flower is this?
I have plenty of this flower. somebody told me it's maybe a herb. I Like it very much - it has an old fashion flare, but I would really like to know what it is. Can anybody help.
søndag 14. juni 2009
Nattens dronning - min deltaker til frøken stemor, Queen of the Night - my perticipant to Miss Heartsease
2009.
The name of my participant to the yearly Miss Heartsease competition on Moseplassen is " The Queen of the Night". This deep purple Heartsease makes me think of the Queen of the night in Mozarts Opera The Magic Flute. (I have loved this Opera since I was 9 years old). Nearly black with a touch of purple for the royal blood and the golden crown in the middle. The Queen of the Night has the most amazing aria (forward to 2:09 in this YouTube clip to hear the aria), but is still evil. This has always facinating me , how can evil people do beutiful things. So this deep purple flower is my contribution in this competition.
Denne er ikke med i konkurransen, men jeg måtte ha den med her alikevel. Jeg synes dette rødfargen er så fin - det er den eneste stemorblomsten jeg har som er så rød.
This red Heartsease is not in the competition, but I wanted to have the photo of this here because this is the only red Heartsease I have.
fredag 12. juni 2009
Hjelp-vanningsvegring,,,Help-Water refusal
Help I have got water refulsal - (maybe that dont mean anuthing in English - but what I want to say is that I don't want to water the plants). I get this every year. I sort of become totaly overwhelmed that all this plants and vegetable is dependet of me and then I don't water the plants at all. So stupid and not logical at all. It has lasted for 4 days. Luckily it rained some of these days. Have anybody felt like me?
onsdag 10. juni 2009
Sneglefri salat - No snails in my lettuce
mandag 8. juni 2009
Potetbinge, mye poteter på liten plass nr.2 - Potato bin, lots of potatoes on a little surface no.2
Så mye har potetplantene vokst siden innlegget som det er link til ovenfor. Nå var det på tide å fylle på jord slik at det kan vokse mer poteter oppover stegelene. Jeg fylte på med 175 liter jord og nå stikker det opp en ca 10 cm over jorden. Noen litt mer noen litt mindre. Meningen er jo å fylle bingen nesten helt opp slik at det kommer masse poteter langs potetplanten.
This much has the potato plant grown since I first wrote about it. Se the link above. So now was the time to fill the potato bin with some more soil . 175 liters of soil did I fill into the bin and now the potato plants is about 10 cm above the soil. Some of the plants are a little taller some are a little lower. The whole point about this is to fill the bin up with soil so I would have a lot of potatoes growing from the stem of the plant.
Dette bilde er etter jeg har fylt på 175 l jord.
This photo is after I filled the bin with 175 l soil.
lørdag 6. juni 2009
Livets sirkel: Grener til pynt, beskyttelse og næring - The Circle of life: Branches turn into protection, nutrition and even decoration
We have got a new garden machine. Both The Man and The Son of The House loved operating it. They where using it for hours. I'm stunned with shock. What made them do this for so long? It's probably because they could ruin something. Mash it totaly in pieces. Some man-thing. I have no other explaination.
Dette er grener (fra trær og busker som vi beskjærte i våres) fra vår hage som er kuttet i små biter med vår nye hagemaskin. Dette er veldig bra å ha som ingridienser i en kompost, men det er mitt neste års prosjekt.
These are branches (we trimmet our threes and bushes this spring) from our garden cut in small pieces with our new garden machine. This is very good for making compost, but thats next years project. Her er et bed med lavendel, stemorblomst og koriander. Som dere ser så er det ugress også. Jeg tok bort ugresset og fylte på med kuttede grener. Dette gjør jeg for å ha mindre ugress og til neste år er det blitt ny næring til jorden. Dette holder også mer på fuktigheten. En vinn vinn situasjon!
This is a bed with coriander, lavender and flowers. As you can see there are some weeds in between. I took the weeds away and filled the ground with the branch pieces. I do this so I will have less weeds and next year this has given some more nutrition to this place. It will also hold on to the humidity. A win win situation!
Dette er hva det handler om for meg. Sirkelen av bruk og gjenbruk. Dette er hva jeg ønsker å å lære: Å ha en sirkel i alt som foregår i min hage. Kompost - jord, frø - planter, grener - ny næring osv.
This is what it all is about. The circle of use and reuse. This is what I want to learn: To have a circle in all whats going on in my garden. Compost - soil, seeds - plants, branches - new nutrition etc.
fredag 5. juni 2009
Dagens mirakler - Miracles of the day
The Rhododendro is in full bloom and it i a lot bigger then last year. I have final understood that I had to use a different kind of fertilizer for soil with a lower PH.
Mannen i hagen- The Man in the garden
Sandgyvel Norge rundt - Common Broom around Norway
torsdag 4. juni 2009
Bjørk på ny måte - Birch in a new way
I have just been on a trip to Kristiansund in Norway. In this town we went for a stroll and there I saw this birch I just had to take a photo of. They had cut the birch in this size and two small branches on the side forced upwards has all the leaves. It looks like the birch has a lot og leaves on the top. The birsh is about 70 cm.
Jeg var så spent på hvordan det hadde gått i hagen mens jeg var borte. Mannen hadde fulgt alle vanningsanvisninger han fikk. Så i hagen vokste det det og grodde som bare det.
I was so curious what have happend to the garden when I was away. The Man had followed all the water instruction I gave him before I left. In the garden everything grew thrived.
Dagens fangst i hagen. Jeg tynnet ut salaten i blomsterkassen og hemtet noe reddikker fra kjøkkenhagen. Dette brukte jeg i en salat vi hadde til middag i dag. Tidlig ute i år. Artig med den aller første smaken.
Todays catch in the garden. Some lettuce and radich. We used it in the salat for dinner today.
torsdag 28. mai 2009
Klær til tørk - Linen drying on the line
Ting jeg er glad i, i hagen - Stuff I'm Found of in the Garden
Denne trebøtten brukte å være på dekket til en av skipene til min far. (Han eide de ikke men siden han var kaptein så brukte vi å si "fars skip"). Denne vannbøtten ble brukt i fordindelse med at de vasket dekket. Far tok den med hjem for ca. 35 år siden.
This little wooden bucket used to be on the dek of one om my father ships. (He didn't own them, he was the captain so we always call them "his ships"). It is a water bucket they use for
washing the deck. My father brought it home abt. 35 years ago.De gamle hellene i innkjørselen vår.
The old tiles in our drive way.