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

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!!!!!!