With a Scent och Lemon and Saffron

I just want to show you this remarkable out of the ordinary tulip, not like any other in my mixed tulip bouquet. It does not really look like a tulip more like a Peony with its feathery leaves and it is fragrant like my white Peonies too, a scent of lemon and saffron, very interesting indeed. Name? Unfortunatly no name but it looks like a Mondial double tulip although Mondial is more white in the colour. We still have an amazing and beautiful winter scene outside the window but frankly we are all a bit fed up with all the snow and cold weather. Stay warm/ Tyra 

Blooming friday at Katarinas place - Blommig fredag och våran värd är Katarina.

Till min stora glädje brukar jag få tulpanbuketter av min man så här års och finns det blandade buketter köper han alltid det. Den här tulpanen var en av dom och jag bara tvungen att foto, den såg inte ut som de andra och hade en underbar doft av citron och saffran. Fantastiskt tunna lätta blad som fjädrar. Jag har inget namn men den liknar en dubbel tulpan som heter Mondial men den är lite mer vit. Hoppas att vi får en fin helg med mycket sol så vi kan njuta av all underbar snö. Det är ju fantasktiskt vackert med all snö men jag som troligtvis alla andra vill ju att Kung Bore nu skall släppa taget och låta våren komma in. 

'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

All the pictures are from Klematis, I just made the collage.

We skipped the light fandango

turned cartwheels 'cross the floor

I was feeling kinda seasick

but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder

as the ceiling flew away

When we called out for another drink

the waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later

as the miller told his tale

that her face, at first just ghostly

turned a whiter shade of pale...

I never really understood that lyrics...hm

But still it's a great song by Procum Harum and lyrics by Keith Reid.

I wish you all a happy ABC Wednesday round.

TYRA

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

T.G.I Friday - TULIPS

This post, "T.G.I Friday"was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

T.G.I Friday

The weekend begins, you buy some really nice food and drink for dinner, add some great music and fresh flowers on the table...it's Friday, the best day of the week.

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Tulips are the favourites right now, they are a messenger of spring and gives us so much joy. When you buy them they are so fresh that the stems make this lovely squeaking noise and they stay fresh the whole week especially if you store them cold during the night. Another thing I like about the tulips are that I think they are getting old very gracefully, the flowers opens the shape alters totally, the colour gets softer, however still beautiful. One day the leaves start to fall and then you know....it's Friday again!

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Blooming Friday - Meet more participants here at Katarinas

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I wish you all a great weekend.

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Don't be a stranger do write something/ TYRA

THIS IS PETER !

© This post This is Peter! was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

This is Peter!

это царь Петр - This is Czar Peter. (Czaar Peter)

Tulipa greigii 'Czar Peter'. This gorgeous tulip is named after an emperor,

Young Peter - wikipedia

Пётр Алексеéевич Ромáнов, Peter I the Great, Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov.

Born in 1672 in Moscow Pyotr was the son of to Alexis I of Russia and his second wife Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, within the walls of the Kremlin. Tsar Alexei died in 1676 and Peter just 10 year old becomes Tsar Peter.
Peter the Great carried out a policy of Westernization and expansion that transformed the Tsardom of Russia into the 3-billion acre Russian Empire, a major European power. He is cited as one of the greatest rulers in the 17th century, ranking alongside Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Empire and Louis XIV of France. (read more…Wikipedia)


Typical for these botanical tulips, Tulipa greigii are that the blooms are large, up to 12cm. The stems are fairly low compared to other varieties, often bright multi coloured blooms and the leaves are sometimes striped or spotted. What’s more is that the Tulipa greigii an early bloomer, they flower in early March – April and that I really appreciate. The bloom open widely in sunshine and look huge compared to its height and closes in shade or at nighttime.
'Cape Cod', 'Red Riding Hood', 'Toronto', 'Casa Grande', 'Chopin', 'Pinocchio', 'Rod Verlinden' and 'Czar Peter' are all examples of tulips of the specie Tulipa greigii.

Here we have Tulipa greigii 'Chopin' in the gravel!

more Tulips in the gravel and other tulip posts.

The species Tulipa greigii got its name from S.A.Greig.

The Tulipa greigii was discovered in Tashkent in (Uzbekistan) the region Turkestan by a German named P.L. Graeber. Described by the horticulturalist and botanist Eduard von Regel in 1877. He named it after S.A. Greig, a botanist in St. Petersburg, at that time the president of the Russian Imperial Horticultural Society.

Namnet Czar Peter från Tsar Peter den store av Ryssland, artnamnet Tulipa greigii fick blomman av Eduard von Regel som gav den namnet efter en botanist S.A Greig som arbetade för the Russian Imperial Horticultural Society i St. Petersburg. Blomman hittades ’först’ i Tashkent nuvarande Uzbekistan av en tysk vid namn P.L. Graeber.

Typiskt för dessa botaniska tulpaner, Tulipa greigii är att blomman är förhållandevis till skaftet stor (upp till 12cm), skaftet som är ganska kort jämfört med andra arter, ofta klara flera färgade blommor och bladen är ibland antingen randiga eller fläckiga. Vad mer är att Tulipa greigii blommar tidigt, början av mars - april och det uppskattar jag verkligen. De stora blommorna öppnar sig i full utsträckning i solsken och sluter sig i skugga och till kvällen. Tulipa greigii 'Czar Peter' tillhör Liliaceae familjen.

xoxo TYRA

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Updated. 2009-01-06

Helen, the patient gardener said in her comment - Are these tulips in flower in your garden now?! Surely not!

No, unfortunately not, nothing and I mean nothing grows in my garden now. It is completely covered with a few inches of snow and it is freeeezing cold. My poor greenhouse is like a big icebox and the only roses that I got there are the roses of ice on the glass of the windows. I have got a pretty picture of ice roses in this post from 2007

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