I'm ooooold!

I guess turning 40 really WAS the end of my fun, imaginative young self. Now I've turned old and boring! I've gotten Petunias!!! LMAO

I've always thought that Petunias were for little old ladies and boring people with no imagination and now I'm one myself, a boring, little, old lady with no imagination but with four petunias instead. LOL

I mostly blame my upstairs neighbor because every summer he's got the most stunning hanging Petunia baskets (and it's even just the basic bluish purple but they're still stunning). I also kind of blame my former mother-in-law's fantastic petunias (on the other hand she WAS a boring, old lady with no imagination so that's maybe the origin if my prejudices against the poor little flowers. LOL) But I also blame the "plant breeders" that's over the year created petunias in the most stunning colors and the cutest sizes. It's just not FAIR to wear down people's Petunia resistance by making the newer Petunias absolutely irresistible! And finally I blame my garden center that happened to have those irresistible Petunias right at the time when I came to buy some lobelias to mix in with the vegetables in my flower boxes.

See, it's not MY fault at all!!!! *innocent* I mean I can't HELP that I've just bought 4 different Petunias and that I happen to LOVE them. It's everyone else's fault!!! LOL I'm not old and boring at all, I'm NOT! LOL



I mean who can resist this tiny, lavender cutie? *heartmelt*



Or this gorgeous bi-color pink?



Or this LOVELY shade of pink?
(I'm sure you all know I love pink by now LOL)



And this is BOTH pink and tiny *heartmelt*


I've planted a Petunia in each flower box along with Trailing Lobelias/Hänglobelia in pink, purple, white and both dark and light blue. I've also moved the Sugar Peas from the tomato pots to the pea-less flowerboxes since the Snow Peas/Luktärtor in those boxes are growing really slow (no wonder with all the cold and rain we've had).

The tiny, lavender Petunia I planted in the bowl on the table instead of the spring flowers that got to move back home to my mom's garden today. I've combined it with honey scented Sweet Alison/Strandkrassing in pink and white.






Today I've finally moved down the red star pelargonium
from the windowsill for good. It will be safer on the floor.




BTW, can you see something strange and unusual on these photos? The sun is actually shining today!!!!!!

Look at my baby radishes growing big

I shouldn't get too attached to these,
after all I plan to eat them. LOL



The new plants have moved to the windowsill

New plants!!!

When my mom came over today she brought 3 new pelargoniums and a Busy Lizzie/Flitig Lisa. Yay for more flowers!

Stoooormy weather...

Can you hear me sing? LOL


Doesn't it look just lovely outside? (it's in the middle of the day)

I'm getting sick and tired of this weather now. *sigh* Luckily there was no frost after all last night (it only dropped to 3.8°C) but it's cold, rainy and yucky. But well, not even the weather can stop me from taking some photos. LOL



Forget-me-not/Förgätmigej


Wild Strawberry/Smultron

The Iron Nights

The first nights in June are usually called "the Iron Nights" here in Sweden because the temperature usually plunges during the night and it's even a risk of frost. When the Iron Nights are over it's usually safe to plant the frost sensitive plants and leave all plants out during the night

Now but April and May have been pretty warm so it felt safe to plant my seedlings already but tonight looks to be cold. The temperature is down to +4°C now and still falling (39.2°F) so I've made sure to take in some of the plants tonight, even the tomatoes! LOL I had to leave the flowerboxes outside though since the beans and peas are attached to the trellis.

Uh oh! What are they doing now?

It looks like they're putting up some kind of workers' huts. *sigh* I guess I'll have to spend this summer looking at building constructors too. (Yes I know some of you might think bare chested, sun tanned building constructors are hot and hunky but the ones that worked outside my balcony last year were more old and chunky and with loads of beards or even hairy all over! Not my favorite kind of view. LOL)



Oh how I love what they've done with my view! NOT!

See the gravel piles in the background behind what looks like a metallic slide (=the roof of a big stairway)? This is where I suspect they will build new houses.

And as you can tell, the weather is just as... eh... lovely.. or something... today. LOL



Look! Baby radishes!

New decorations!

Hey! Where did the summer go? Okay, I know I complained about my balcony being a bit too hot but that didn't mean that I wanted it to be cold, rainy and really windy. It's like fall in the beginning of June! *shudder*

The red pelargonium got knocked over so I had to put it on the floor. Maybe it's too much of a wind catcher to keep on the windowsill?

Today's photos are unfortunately a bit gray, dull, gloomy and blurry. So is today's weather as well. You just can't take cheerful photos on a day like this. LOL




Anyway, I've put out some new decorations today. I've made a of candle holder from a.... eh... wall shelf for flower pots... (sometimes my dictionary lacks a few words. LOL) Don't worry the candle is firmly secured with wire to keep if from falling off but I've hidden the candle with three ivory candle rings (not quite sure about the dictionary here either, but the kind of decorations you put around candles indoors) I've also hung a wreath decorated with scrapbooking flowers on the wall. Yes, they're made of paper but the rain doesn't reach the inner corner and I don't mind throwing them away when the summer is over. (The false grapes that hung on the wall before are now hanging on the trellis)








Since today's theme is decorations I thought I should show off some of my stones as well. Yes, I like my stones, can you tell? LOL This is a fossil of some kind of shell on top of a more flat stone and then there's a stone painted by my sister in law (The one with the Deadly Nightshade LOL)



This side says; Please turn me over!


and the other side says: Thanks, that felt good...


And look, some things have actually managed to grow in this cold. (Yes, I know, the nature really needs the rain after a warm and dry spring but MY plants don't so could it please rain during the nights instead? LOL)



Itty, bitty, tiny radishes!