2009/10/27


The hydrangea in the garden are starting to wither now, but still new blooms. It blooms from July and right up until the frost starts.

The Hortensia / hydrangea
The story behind the word Hydrangea is interesting because it comes from the Greek, which means Hydor water and angeion means jar. Against this background, one can always remember that Hydrangea is very water intensive.

2009/10/22



This blue asters are the last flowers that are blooming before wintertime this year...

Aster novae-angliae is a large perennial with a stiff, sustained growth form. The leaves are sitting scattered along the stiff stems. Each leaf is lanceolate with entire edges. The flowers are large, richly branched, Open Stand for the end of the shoots. Each flower is as star-like flower basket with yellow median crowns and fruits are small nuts with their small fnok. The seeds germinate readily.

2009/10/20


I is wo really nice working in the garden on a sunny autumn day, where I and my camera found these Anemone seeds.

Anemone tomentosa 'Robustissima' / Grape-leaf anemone / høstanemone

This traditional variety has Copious pale pink blooms and attractive foliage that's greyish-white underneath. The flowers seen from August until late September. The seeds ripen rarely in this country.

2009/10/18


Seed capsules of Columbine.
They are often just as beautiful and decorative as the flowers

Columbine (Aquilegia) is a genus with many species in the northern hemisphere. It is perennials or rarely: annuals herbs that have the following common features: the leaves are double cut shared with entire margins and rounded leaflets. Leaves and stems are smooth. The flowers are borne in setting up booths at the end of special shots. They are regular with the innermost five petals transformed into long nectar spurs

2009/10/05


Phlox a few have started to bloom here in the late summerdays, and it is a pretty little flower that is most common in old gardens.

Phlox /floks / Polemonium, commonly called Jacob's ladder, is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and also in the southern Andes in South America. Many of the species grow at high altitudes in mountains.
They are perennial plants (rarely annual plants) growing 10–120 cm tall with bright green leaves divided into lance-shaped leaflets, and produce blue (rarely white or pink) flowers in the spring and summer.
Polemonium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora polemoniella.