My potager garden is a small garden on the island of Resarö, Resarö is situated in the inner part of the archipelago outside of Stockholm. Tyra´s Garden is mostly an ornamental vegetable garden, potager. But flowers are of course an important ingredience, for beauty and pollination.
Tyra's Garden is a small garden on the island of Resarö situated in the inner part of the archipelago near the small town Vaxholm, outside Stockholm. Tyra's Garden is mostly an ornamental vegetable garden, my potager. But flowers are of course an important ingredience, for beauty and pollination. The climate in these parts is quite demanding as the northerly winds can be strong and cold. THIS BLOG 'Tyra's Garden' is not entirely a gardenblog it contains much more. About me: Enthusiastic amateur gardener and photographer from Vaxholm, Sweden. Designed and built my Greenhouse and Potager in Tyra's Garden 2003. Love the outdoor life, gardening and sailing especially. View my profile

Friday

Blossoms and Blooms in Tyra's Garden

This post, 'Blossoms and blooms in Tyra's Garden'' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/
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Blossom and blooms in my garden just now. Thousands of tiny blossoms of plum, apple, pear, cherry and crabapple adds splendour to my garden now in this glourious month of May.








Blackthorn Prunus spinosa




Buds and blossoms of Apple





The magnificiant fragrant Malus silvestris var. parapisiaca tree is in full bloom right now and in the evenings it fills the air with a most wonderful scent.




Pears at the top 1. Bartlett (also called a Yellow Bartlett, known as the Williams outside North America) 2. Red Bartlett (organic; presumably a Red Williams in other countries) 3. Red Bartlett (several distinct varieties are called "red bartletts"; not sure store's name is correct but that's what it was labeled) 4. D'Anjou 5. Bosc (organic) 6. Comice 7. Concorde 8. Seckel (they really are that small relative to others) Pear picture and text from Wikipedia

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This is my contribrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participants here at Katarina. Roses and Stuff.


Well this is all from me - I wish you all a lovely weekend with a lot of gardening!



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LOLove TYRA




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Wednesday

'Whiter Shade of Pale' - Claus Dalby's Spring Garden

This post, "Whiter Shade of Pale" was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/
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I usually store my ABC Wednesdays in the Greenhouse but not so this week. I thought as it is not about my garden, potager nor the greenhouse I'll rather have it here.



R is for Risskov







These pictures are from Risskov near Århus, Denmark
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Meet Claus Dalby’s fantastic garden, that I call a ’Whiter shade of pale’ garden. This man can really paint with his plants, though his spring garden is almost monochrome it is truely amazing, so very beautiful. Claus found all these wonderful plants and composed them into a crème coloured symphony for his spring garden.



ABC Wednesday and the letter i s R, find more participants here
and read more about Claus Dalby's fantastic garden in Risskov here

Friday

Garden Bloggers' Blooms Day & Blooming Friday

This post, 'Garden Bloggers Blooms Day & Blooming Friday' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/
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Up up and away...

The gherkins are coming along fine in the greenhouse, it is really fascinating to see them grow, they cling on to almost everything or anything. The tomatoes are getting quite tall as well. I had too many plants this year again :-) ... so I have been giving away a lot of tomatoes to friends and neighbours.



Outside the potager I have tulips, both old faithful friends and new acquaintances, these are new, I think they are very cute. Especially from above. I did save the label with the name but I cannot find it right now...silly girl.
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same tulips...with the wood behind.


May is full of all the gorgeous fruit tree flowers this is from my Blackthorn (topiary)
When I was out earlier tonight it was actually snowing white petals from the cherry blossoms.



To see more GBBD posts or to join in this month please visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens. It is also Blooming Friday! This is my contribrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participant here at Katarina. Roses and Stuff.


Well this is all from me - I wish you all a lovely weekend with a lot of gardening!
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LOLove TYRA



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Wednesday

Faithful Old Friends in the Garden

This post, 'Faithful Old Friends in the Garden' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/








Faithful Old Friends.



These old tulips appear here and there in my garden, I havn’t planted then so I don’t know their name unfortunately. They are simple to their shape but very graceful and strong, rather tall too. They must be at least 16 years old and each year they pay me a lovely visit.
The new tulips however they seem to disappear after a few years, do you have the same ‘ problem’?







Today it is Wednesday and I store my ABC Wednesday in the Greenhouse, this week it’s Q





Have a great week my friend and don't be a stranger - communicate, write something!


TYRA


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Friday

Highgate Cemetery - London

This post, 'Highgate Cemetery' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/
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Highgate Cemetery
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Today I'm going to show you some pictures from my visit to this amazing place called Highgate Cemetery, just about one hour from the City of London's hectic pulse. I'm a huge fan and admirer of this enchanted spot on earth. It lush, green, so very beautiful and calm.
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The family Tomb of Samuel Whitfield.


The cemetery's grounds are full of mature trees, shrubbery and wild flowers all of which have been planted and grown without human influence. ( I don't think that is completely true) I found a numerous wild flowers like for instance Bluebells Scilla non-scripta and Ramsons Allium ursinum. The guide told me that in a few weeks the wild poppies Papaver will bloom and can you imagine the red 'lanterns' lighten up the grounds. It must be wonderful. The grounds are a haven for birds and small animal. The cemeterys tree crowns form a wonderful most amazing canopy and the sound in the cemetery or the lack of noice is overwhelming.
I think this old tree below is a Lebanon Cedar

Catacomb of P.W. Talbot
The Highgate cemetery is devided into two parts the West and the East Cemetery. All my pictures here are from the West Cemetery. This Victorian Cemetery was opened in 1839. The initial design was by the architect Stephen Geary.


'Although its most famous occupant in the east cemetery is probably Karl Marx (whose tomb's attempted bombing in 1970 is still recalled by some Highgate residents), there are many other prominent figures, Victorian and otherwise, buried at Highgate Cemetery.' Facts from Wikipedia read more here



If you want to visit The Highgate Cemetery I recommend you to go to the official website of Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust


Highgate Cemetery
Swain's Lane
Highgate
London
N6 6PJ

Telephone No. (+44) 020 8340 1834



East Cemetery

Open from 10.00am weekdays, 11.00am weekends. There is no charge for children under the age of 16 when accompanied by an adult.

East Cemetery Tours

There is a guided tour of the East Cemetery once a month, on the first Saturday of each month. Tours are about one hour in length, and are limited to 15 people. Tickets are sold at the East Cemetery gate on the day of the tour on a first come, first served basis. The tour cost of £5 includes entrance to the East Cemetery. People should gather at 2:15 P.M. for a prompt start at 2:30.

Western Cemetery

Admission to the West Cemetery is by guided tour only. We have tours all year.
Call the office of The friends of Highgate Cemetery on 0208 340 1834 to discuss arrangements.


Have a great weekend my friend!

LOLove TYRA


DON'T BE A STRANGER - WRITE SOMETHING


Blooming Friday! This is my contribrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participant here at Katarina.

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Monday

London my Metropolis

This post, 'London my Metropolis' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/
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I’m back from London, my favourite Metropolis.
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I didn’t know and I actually just found out that London was in fact called Metropolis during the Victorian era. During this much to short visit to London my only ambition tourist-wise was to visit the famous (Victorian) Highgate Cemetery and I will give you a post about this fantastic place in a post shortly.
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Today I’m going to show you some pictures from an old and absolutely wonderful store called Fortnum & Mason. They have a lot of stuff even some lovely things for the garden, to posh for my taste. This time I want to share some other hilarious bits and pieces with you or what do you think about this Coffee and Tea set.




Everything is expensive in this store but the quality is exquisite! Thank God that I just had a small suitcase otherwise I would have been ruined. Though I was able to squeeze in a few beautiful tins with delicious biscuits.
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This is my favourite department....the Confectionary department.
It is a feast for the eye to see all those lovely Chocolates - Cakes and Bisquits - Sweets - Marmalades & Preserves.
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more of those colourful Teatime stuff...


One of the days we were out walking for more than 14 hours! Of course we stopped for coffee, snacks & beer, lunch, coffee again and supper :-) but still... we were very glad to find this bench. Isn't it just beautiful? Very comfortable too, I loved it so much that I looked it up up and it is from Gaze Burvill in UK and it is called Court Seat (cute name)

I saved the best to the last, finally a flower. Wisteria

More from Highgate LONDON on friday...until then I wish you all a great week.
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Happy Gardening!
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LOLove / TYRA


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