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15
Mar
2015

Early spring

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Crocus. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Spring is early this year and coming along nicely. Sunny and warm days. Very cold nights with frost.

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LED-lamp. Photo:©nini.tjader.2015

Got a new sun-driven LED-lamp from Ikea and planted it in one of the flowerbeds. It has charged but noticed yesterday night that only one of the bulbs lit up. Have to check that.

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Patio-lamps. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Hung out last years sun-driven lamp (the dirty one in the background) and got a new one from Ikea (the closest one).  Both have charged during the week as it has been extremely sunny. ON the wall I still have the light-curtain which during winter has other decorations. Ikea did this smart thing that you can exchange the decorations on the light-curtain according to season. So I got myself some white and green balls with holes in and took off the stars that were there over the Xmas-season. The nights and evenings are still very dark so the extra lighting out there is needed.

The honey-suckle on the corner is coming along fine. The leaves are visible and growing each day. Best though are the flowers. So far snow-drops and crocus, but there are lots of flowers budding in the flower-beds.

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Crocus. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

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17
Mar
2014

Really didn’t want that snow…

I really didn’t want to wake up to this white all over this morning. Gustav, the neighbor cat had already been out walking in the snow though according to paw traces in the snow.

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Snow, March 17th 2014 Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

Yes, I know. It is common that it snows in March. And in April. And on May 1st… Still don’t want it to happen. (I actually never want snow. I hate snow.)

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Garden utensils. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

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Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

My solar-powered lamp there surely doesn’t want that snow… It won’t charge with all that snow on top as that’s where the charging is. Getting wet is no problem though. (Lamp is Solvinden from Ikea). This is its second season. Just took it out the other day. Had one exactly the same for three years. That one got destroyed by hail and rain in the very wet summer of 2011. The hail perforated it…

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Crocus in snow Photo:©nini.tjader.2014

And those poor crocus and tulips… They can usually take a bit of snow and cold if it is temporary.

May the snow disappear really fast!

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05
Mar
2014

Spring has begun

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Pansy Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

This pansy suddenly appeared in the grass, just beside the rhubarb that my neighbor and I grow together. The pansy probably comes from my neighbor. I know she has a few of them under her bushes. Pansies are sturdy cold-resistant flowers and really give hope that spring is fast approaching. Meteorologically spring is a whole month early in our region this year. The crocus and snowdrops are also up and you can see the tops of the rhubarb as well. Promising. Tulips are coming up in various places in the grass. Don’t remember that they originally where in those places… Last year the row-deer ate the tulips. Most of them. This year, with the early spring, they have so far not ventured into our little corner of the garden. They probably have more greenery to eat elsewhere. So maybe there will be tulip flowers this year… soon as it looks like.

Have to take better pictures of the crocus, when they are open. With this grey weather we are having (grey, but warm) the crocus just stand there and won’t open their flowers.

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Rhubarb Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

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Tulips. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014

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