2010/04/20


This year my Helleborus was twice as big. and it is filled with many flowers, they're just not very pretty this year, animals and frost have damaged the petals.The stamen looks nice anyway

Helleborus niger /Julerose, is an evergreen perennial with basic favoured leaves. The leaves are pinnate with elliptic leaflets. Leaf edge is irregularly toothed, upper surface is grass green and leathery, and the underside is light gray-green. and the flowers grow up in January-February.The flowers are snowy white with yellow stamens. The fruits are dry capsules with many black seeds ripen well and germinate readily under the right growing conditions.

2010/04/19


Grape hyacinths, lilies bloom in spring. They form gradually colonies of plants. When they faded I dig up the lump and spread the onions over a larger area.

Grape hyacinths /Muscari,a genus / Perlehyacint of bulbous plants in the family Hyacinthaceae with approx. 60 species widespread in the Mediterranean and West Asia. All the plant's leaves are deleted from the onion, and blue ball-shaped flower sits in a bunch. Petals are interconnected grown and have only a small opening to the flower's interior, which contains six dust carriers and one pencil.

In Denmark Perlehyacint or Druehyacint / Muscari botryoides and tassel hyacinth /
M. comosum, the commonly cultivated.

2010/04/17



Another blue anemone blooming right now, the colour is a little lighter blue, and the petals are longer and slimmer.

Anemone Blanda / Balkan-Anemone, is a perennial herb in the family Buttercups and occurs naturally in the north-eastern Mediterranean and the Caucasus. Balkans anemone is a common garden plant in Denmark.

This blue anemone stands and lights up with its blue flowers on the still bare ground. Giving in to the cold wind we have today

Pennywort /Hepatica nobilis / Blaa anemone, is a perennial with a rosette of leaves due favored. Individual leaves are long stalked and lobed with entire margin.
The plant is widespread in most of Europe, including Denmark and Scandinavia, where it grows in deciduous forests on Rupicolous bottom.