2009/08/27



A wonderful rose I found among a lot of nettles, you could hardly see it. So i moved it to my new rose bed with some other roses I bought. and next year it bloomed with wonderful white rose all summer.

2009/08/23



Love the way they seem to be dancing, and they look beautiful in a bouquetat last long as well

Japanese Anenome flower /Anemone hupehensis / Høst-anemone . is a deciduous perennial convincing with a stiff stalks, create growth. Shoots are initially green but will soon Maroon. They are shaggy soft hair down. The leaves are long-stemmed bored and hand lapped to form as redcurrants or vine leaves. Edge is cut into the coarse teeth, and the top is rough because of the suspended leaf ribs. The color is grass green with a lighter underside. The flowers seen from August until late September. They carried high above the leaves in the end favored tassels. Each flower is wine rose, pink or creamy white (see the varieties). Seeds seldom ripen in this country.

2009/08/17


Common Soapwort / alm sæbeurt, aAs the name implies, it can be used as a very gentle soap, usually in dilute solution. It has been used to clean delicate or unique fabrics, such as the Turin shroud for example.

Common Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) is a vespertine flower, and a common perennial plant from the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae). Other common names are Bouncing Bet and Sweet William; locally it is simply "the Soapwort" although there are about 20 species of soapworts altogether.

The scientific name Saponaria is derived from the Latin sapo (stem sapon-) meaning "soap," which, like its common name, refers to its utility in cleaning. From this same Latin word is derived the name of the toxic substance saponin, contained in the roots even 20 percent when the plant is flowering[1] (Indian soapnuts contain only 15 percent!). It starts producing a lather when in contact with water. The epithet officinalis indicates its medicinal functions.

Soapwort's native range extends throughout Europe to western Siberia. It grows in cool places at low or moderate elevations under hedgerows and along the shoulders of roadways.

The plants possesses leafy, unbranched stems (often tinged with red) grow in patches, attaining a height of 70 cm. The broad, lanceolate, sessile leaves are opposite and between 4 and 12 cm long. It's sweetly scented flowers are radially symmetrical and pink, or sometimes white. Each of the five flat petals have two small scales in the throat of the corolla. They are about 2.5 cm wide. They are arranged in dense, terminal clusters on the main stem and its branches. The long tubular calyx has five pointed red teeth.

In the northern hemisphere soapwort blooms from May to September, and in the southern hemisphere October to March.

2009/08/06



My favorite colour in flowers are blue and white and this Stormhat has such a nice intense blue colour

Aconitum napellus, Stormhat

A decorative up to 1.5 meters high perennial. In June-August developed long inflorescences with beautiful violet blue flowers.

The name comes from the Greek akoniton, which means an arrow, and plans has been an important ingredient in arrow poison. Napellus means small turnip, although not to entice people to eat it, because it is one of our toxic plants. Poison, which caused the contents of alkaloids, is so strong that it can penetrate through small scratches in the skin. Plant has been part of the witch's flying ointment, such because it does pain and reduces the pulse.

2009/08/03




I plant Marigold / morgenfruer every year in spring and then they bloom the whole summer in yellow and orange colour.....
Morgenfruer = morgenladies

Morgenfrue / Calendula officinalis / Marigold is a plant in the Calendula genus. It was used in ancient Greek, Roman, Arabic and Indian cultures as a medicinal herb as well as a dye for fabrics, foods and cosmetics.

The leaves and petals of the Pot Marigold are edible, with the petals added to dishes as a garnish and in lieu of saffron. The leaves can be sweet but are more commonly bitter, and may be used in salads.
Calendula officinalis is a cultivated herb and can be grown easily in sunny locations in most kinds of soils.
Calendula officinalis is an annual plant with maintaining growth. The stems are strong and hairy. The leaves are spread and spiral asked. They are great randede and slightly hairy. Upper and lower sides are gray-green uniform. Flowering occurs in June to November. The flowers form the final curve made with orange yellow, tongue-shaped peripheral crowns and darker tubular disc crowns. Often grown only full-flowered varieties, with nothing but tongue-shaped crowns. The seed ripens well and shoots prepared at appropriate sites.

2009/08/02



The Hortensia /hydragena in my garden are pink and white don't know the special sort.

Hydrangea / Hortensia is a genus of about 70-75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Korea, Japan, the Himalayas, and Indonesia) and North and South America. The widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous.

Hydrangea flowers are produced from early spring to late autumn.