summer
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Summer Social
This past summer was very work filled and I only had time to take a little bit of time off. I wasn’t prepared to sacrifice hanging out with some of my friends that normally live abroad (Berlin, Istanbul, Mumbai and Shanghai, so not very conveniently close) so my time off was either spent with them or at a few crucial summer events.. Turns out you can’t cure a gardener, so a few of them had some garden related touches. In the first picture: Watering a swiss chard plant I had donated to a “Plant Tram” event that was arranged in August and September in Helsinki. At first the plants that…
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Rainy Days
Some years ago when we had horrible droughts, I swore I would never complain about rain. I’m not sure I made the distinction “during the summer”, but that was my intention. I didn’t complain about the rain this summer either, it was very nice to see everything grow with such vigor and I’m looking forward to some nice flowering next spring. For example the azaleas, the rhododendron and my magnolias all look like they have set a record amount of buds. So that is excellent, however, this autumn rain that we have had in the last weeks is getting a bit old. It is very wet and there are some…
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Forced Inside
It’s really raining too much for digging so I’m back inside again. It’s been a very busy summer and I had to take a break from blogging. The summer has been filled with gardening and I’ve seen a lot of gardens and flowers and as the fall goes on I imagine I’ll have time to share some pictures. I’ve been using Instagram so here is a sneak peek and a little collage of a few pictures. Most of my gardening pictures have the hashtag #aplantaday which no one else seems to be using right now. There are more pics in the new sliding sidebar on the left! In the first…
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This Year Illustrates the Next
As in I made a calendar for 2012 based on pictures taken this year. I’ve made calendars before, but this year it was surprisingly easy as I’ve taken a lot of pictures for this blog. The masses of snow last winter made for some pretty pictures and then the summer was rainy enough for some good growth and nothing really got scorched. The fall was long and warm so all in all it was a pretty good year for the garden! Otsikko “Tämä vuosi kuvittaa seuraavan” viittaa siihen että olen tehnyt seinäkalenterin vuodelle 2012 tämän vuoden kuvista. Olen tehnyt kalentereita aikaisemminkin, mutta tänä vuonna se oli yllättävän helppoa koska olen…
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Weight Training
Last summer my visits to the gym were few and far between. But for good reason, I did a lot of exercise in the garden and this here was my weight camp. I had help in the building of the pergola but the stone floor and steps are all me. It was not easy, some of those stones are huge and I had to use every help I could get in terms of bending irons and other stuff that I frankly don’t know what they are called in English 😉 En pahemmin käynyt salilla viime kesänä, mutta ihan hyvällä syyllä, ”treenasin” paljon puutarhassa ja kuvassa näkyykin voimaharjoittelupisteeni. Sain apua pergolan…
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