Stoechas

Purple

I'm sorry I have kept you waiting for a new post.....

I have never been such a fan of Prince. 

Then I discovered I can enjoy his music when I just listen to him.
But I shouldn't be seeing him at the same time :)

One of my favourite Prince songs is: Breakdown

Enjoy the weekend!

Fluor

Cardoon

New Harvest

Our new harvest: home grown Vitelotte potatoes and cucumber.

Earlier posts here, here and here.

Purple Potato

Our first home grown potatoes!

"Bleue de la Manche" is a purple variety.

The flowers are a bit purplish as well. You can see for yourself here. 

Our crop wasn't big. We only harvested 5 potatoes.

Two big ones, one medium size and 2 small ones.

We cooked two of them and they tasted really delicious.

Oyster plant

One of my favourite wild flowers........... Jerusalem star.

Flowering in our front garden.

Mother's Day

Wishing you all (mothers and in particularly my mother) a very nice day today!

Hazel

Checkered

Cupani

Geranium

Geranium renardii 'Philippe Vapelle'

Bumblebee

There he comes!

It's probably a common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum).

 Straight up to the pollen.

He's obviously on a mission!

Flowering bulbs

 The first Fritillaries are in full bloom!

 Others are just starting........

Narcissus Snipe or Mitzy. I'm still not sure.

Gardening

Helleborus orientalis
21-3

23-3
After two days of sunshine you can see the flowerbud is opening.

24-3

Thalictrum Elin
It is just starting to grow but it will go up to 200 cm.

Angelica archangelica

It looks like the Angelica is going to be a great succes this year.
We had it for years but it was strugling and it never flowered before.
Last autumn we gave it a new spot in a really wet part of our garden.
We added lots of compost and now it looks like its flipping!

Angelica is native to Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, the Faerous and Finland.
In Norway it was such a valued plant that according to Gulathing's law (11th century) a tenant farmer was allowed to take this plant with him.

It's a beautiful plant (loved by insects) but look out, especially with childeren.
The plant has a photosensitive juice wich will cause burning to the skin and mouth if exposed to light.

Dining room