la nube – cloud
las nubes – clouds
Month: June 2016
Spanish nature word – la lagartija, el lagarto
la lagartija – lizard (small)
el lagarto – lizard (big)
(Ibiza wall lizard – la lagartija de las Pitiusas)
A few flowers today (+my “pic page” usernames)
I took a little tour with my camera in our garden today, for the newly opened up flowers for this summer. Today is actually a surprisingly warm day.
The Park lilacs or Hungarian lilacs actually have been flowering already for a while now. Our park lilacs don’t have so many flowers this year – last year they were loaded…
Purple-flowering raspberry is, too, planted by the previous owners of this house. I like it! 🙂
Iris. We have these in two different spots in the garden. The other ones were planted by the previous owners of this house, the other bunch by us – we brought them from eastern Finland last summer, my boyfriend’s mother gave them to us. This flower is of that bunch. I love irises, more pics of them later, hopefully. 🙂 Only two flowers have opened up so far, but there’s so many buds.
Daisy. Daisies are already a bit wild in our garden. – Some of them here, some of them there. One here, one there.
Aaand, I love the “pic pages” or apps… Here’s my favourites, and where Owlnature is… I am… so, my usernames: Instagram: owlnatureleena (I’ve used Instagram before, but at this very moment Owlnature doesn’t have any pics there yet, as I just created the account.) Pinterest: owlnature (The same story as with Instagram.) We Heart It: owlnature (This account I started using already in winter.) Yees, maybe I have the real widgets, too, in the sidebar of my blog some day… 🙂
-Leena
About the plum tree and taking care of it
Our plum tree today. My first blog post about the tree here.
The flowers disappeared quickly and our tiny tree really started to grow some fruits! At least started, and some of the diminutive green fruits have already grown bigger. But still a lot of waiting, though… The plums in this tree should not be that big when they are ripe, but they should be very blue.
So, still hoping to get the two plum fruits that I’m dreaming of this year… 😉
And about taking care of this tree:
The net is keeping our forest rabbit away, although we have our lettuces growing in open ground, and the bunny hasn’t eaten them, but still… And we had a tar moat made out of a plastic container around the trunk of the tree, on the ground, to keep the ants away. That was really necessary and worked very well!
And the aphids, we keep them away with the mixture of water and the traditional Finnish washing liquid, pine soap, called Mäntysuopa – works like a charm! 🙂
Now just waiting what happens to the tiny green fruits…
The next blog post about the tree here.
-Leena
Spanish nature word – el verano
el verano – summer
German nature word – der Sommer
der Sommer – summer
Mountain cornflowers, petunia and their friends
Yesterday’s flower pics.
Centaurea montana or mountain cornflower or perennial cornflower or mountain bluet. These, too, are flowers that we have on many different spots in our garden, thank you, the previous owners of this house! I like these. 🙂
The tiny yellow flowers on the background are meadow buttercups, very wild in our garden… 🙂
More petunia pics. Now the lovely colour combination can be seen a bit better…
In the same pot with the petunia is another flower, too. It was there when we got this, and I don’t know what this flower is, haven’t found the answer. I call it the white crown flower…
…or the white flower crown…
EDIT: The answer came to me in a garden store, I saw these flowers there with a name tag. 🙂 This is verbena, rautayrtti in Finnish.
Red campion or red catchfly. A bit wild in our garden as well. And a bit everywhere, for example around the rapids.
On Friday by the lake Pyhäjärvi. It was raining a bit as I took this pic.
-Leena