What a difference a day makes!

Today we've had sunshine! I mean real actual sunny sunshine, not just the sun trying to shine through thinner layers of clouds like yesterday, but sunshine form a nice clear blue sky. And all of a sudden both me an the plants starts to blossom a bit more.

For instance my Bleeding Heart/Löjtnantshjärta started to flower today and I've found sugar pea flowers too. Okay, pea flowers aren't that exciting (even though they're cute if you give them a close look) but this mean that I will soon have sweet, yummy pea pods to munch on. Yum!!!

And guess what, my rugs have stopped squelching! By tomorrow they might be completely dry.



Bleeding Heart/Löjtnantshjärta



Sugar Pea/Sockerärta



Hydrangea/Hortensia



Petunia



My stunning view (also known as the building site)

Damage control

Today the weather's been a little bit dryer. Not rain-FREE of course but more of a light drizzle and now in the even it's even a HINT of sunshine and things are starting to dry up a bit. I guess that's at least SOMETHING to be grateful of this summer. LOL

I've been out on the balcony pouring away all the excess water from the flowerpot saucers, fixing the sagging "curtain", putting back the chair cushion and just in general tidying up after the massive dose of rain we've gotten lately. Two single plants (in the most protected corner of the windowsill) needed watering but all the others (even on the windowsill) were really wet.

I will need to sweep the floors once it gets really dry but at the moment my temporary plastic rugs are squelching. Yuck! I REALLY look forward to when my stepfather will help me to put in a better floor.


Not much has grown in June, other than the radishes of course. LOL

More cacti photos!

A bit blurry bt you can still get a feeling for the size of it

We're about to drown here!

Soaking wet and sagging!

It keeps raining and raining and raining! Everything is completely soaked and today the weather somehow manages to be even wetter than ordinary rain (that happens if you combine rain with lots of mist). As I've described it to my brother (that lives in a differnet part of Sweden), we've had two kinds if weather here this summer, rain WITH fog and rain WITHOUT fog. *sigh* I guess this costal climate with all the misty weather takes a couple of years to get used to.

My plants are about to drown, I think even the ones on the windowsill are getting their fair share of water (and usually rain never reaches more than the "corner"). I've hade to take in the big chair cushion to dry it and look at the fabric I'm keeping to block the view (it's a more open section of the balcony wall there with only metal bars). It's not SUPPOSED to sag like that.

Look at my cactus!

Okay, time for some off topic indoor photos. I'm taking the liberty here to assume that people that visits a balcony blog in general like looking at photos of flowers (if you don't this blog will soon bore you to death. LOL) so I will continue to assume that you don't mind looking at a few photos of indoors flowers as well, especially when they're as lovely as my cactus.

I've had it for ages and it's the first time it's blooming. I'm sooo proud of it!



Stunning, isn't it?



And it's not even fully opened yet, it started opening today

More photos of "boring" plants! LOL

Obviously I must really love my "boring" Petunias since I keep taking more and more photos of them LOL I guess I've turned in to a Petunia lover this summer. (Or should I call it "this rain season?)


Look how boring beautiful it is!












I've made the decorative heart myself, two years ago



Close up of the pink Sweet Alison/Strandkrassing



And the white one
(they both smell heavenly, especially in cold weather)



The corner is getting crowded



And the radishes are getting bigger

Oh no! Not the trees!!!

Oh nooooo!!! They're cutting down some of the hug pine trees!!! (next to the workers' huts) The evil green truck is chopping them up in to pieces,



My soul aches when they're killing trees. *sob* And I (and the jackdaws) loved these trees. *sigh* Threes are ALIVE! (I'm still grieving for the huge birch they killed last summer, now there's only one left)

On a happier note, the weather is really lovely today! Ehhh.... maybe not! LOL