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I997 - From left: 1.Hydrangea macrophylla 'Rose Bouquet' in the first, peat-soil planter, 2.Azalea 'Cecil' (both pink), 3.The new planter, far left (a sort of roof is covering an old well)

(R.multiflora and Clematis already planted), 4. Far right:Hydrangea petiolaris, in the peat-soil bed, first flower

The early spring 1995. The wooden planters are built around the house working as the raised beds. The right side of house I called for 'The Warm Corner' - those walls faced west-south. The 3 Lonicera sp and 2 roses were already planted.

Left: July 1995. The roses

('Bonica82', 'Heidelberg') are flowering. Summer flowers as well - white daisy I bought and Nicotiana 'Salmon' I grew myself. You can see the corner I named 'The Warm Corner' that became later the very nice place and even a little patio.

April 1995. In the long wooden planter at the southern wall 4 Clematis were planted ('Ville de Lyon', 'Nelly Moser', Cl.montana v.rubra, Cl. alpina) and a rose - 'The Fairy' and perhaps also 'Swany'

Yngve´s garden started just around the house walls, but the first bushes were planted the late autumn 1994 in front of the balcony on the backyard, faced south. In the early spring 1995 the planters as the raised beds were built around house walls, made of old, wooden breads after an scraped jetty at the beach

Left: August 1995, the ground-cover roses 'The Fairy' (pink) and 'Swany' - white in the raised bed (wooden planter) at the southern wall

On the north side of the house a raised bed was built as well, but next year, 1996. It was filled with soil mixed with much peat and at first the Rhododendron 'Baden Baden' was planted there.

Right: The peat filled wooden planter built in 1996. Azalea 'Cecil' was transplanted from south side of house and Rhododendron 'Baden Baden' was planted. To the right in a little raised bed of stones - Clematis 'Ville de Lyon'. It disappeared later

Above and left: The corner of house with wooden planters as raised beds built along the house walls. Left wall is facing west, right wall - facing south. In 1998 I built the stone planter connected to the beds, for a climbing rose (the third pic to the right,1998). I planted there the climbing rose 'Morgensonne' , the same year in the fall.

On the Southern Wall the Clematis montana and Cl. alpina has been grown enormous in the coarse of the years, but Cl. alpina suddenly disappeared about 2003 or 2004 . Lonicera jap.v.Aurea was flowering in the 1998 and after it almost disappeared because of very aggressive growing Cl. montana. I pruned it down in 2000 and after that it grows again. The cover-roses became climbing, esp. 'The Fairy'

Left: Mesembryanthemum criniflorum in July. Right: wild daisy, self-sown July-August

Raised beds build as large planters of different materials (wooden, stone, bricks) became the main way to get flowers almost everywhere, especially at the beginning, before I had found another way to create flower beds, also raised..

In ´The Warm Corner' left: Clematis 'M-me de Coultre' flowers became double in May this year, likely 1998;middle: The pot with Petunia 'Prism Sunshine' and Lobelia erinus pendula 'Sapphire', in August; right: Clematis vitalba that came here from entrance wooden planter, and is hanging now on Lonicera, September 2000

Southern Wall - that year the spring was so early and warm, that Chrisanthemum leucanthemum flowered already in May, as never before - together with Cerastium tomentosum 'Silber Teppich'

In October the trellis rose-arch has been built between two stone planters. One of them, the right one, is connected to the old wooden planter built in 1995 around the west-southern house walls. The climbing roses were planted in both of them.

Southern Wall. Left: Clematis montana and Clematis alpina

Right: Cl. montana just about the roof

Right: In June Cerastium is still flowering, and Osteosper-

mum 'Pastel Silks' just began

Right: The same Osteospermum 'Pastel Silks' in July (Southern Wall). It flowered all the time until late November!

Left: The climbing rose, 'Morgensonne' in the stone container, and another climber, 'Heidelberg' in 'The Warm Corner', in July

On the north side of the house the raised bed has been enlarged a little in 1997 - one more wooden planter was built, to plant the Rosa multiflora grown from seed by me as well as Clematis viticella white form, or maybe it was really Cl. vitalba. I planted there also a cutting of Hydrangea 'Rose Bouquet' taken from the mother plant that was already in the first planter, with peat-fertilized soil, not very sour (because I just had not a sour peat).

Left: Rhododendron 'Baden Baden' and Azalea 'Cecil', May 2000 in the first, peat-soil planter, right: Fall colors in the same planter (or raised bed as well) in October 1999

June 2001, left: on the wall R.multiflora and Clematis viticella. Closest - yellow little tree this is Caragana arborescens 'Lobergii'

Late June 2001. Left on the pic: R. multiflora and Cl. viticella which grew enormous, but also did Lonicera sp (right on the wall), grown from wild little seedling

Right: In ´The Warm Corner':Lonicera periclymenum flowering again,

19 October!

Below: Southern wall, Dimorphoteca 'PastelYellow'

Pictures in the year 2000 were still made by analog camera, Minolta Riva. In the winter 2001 Yngve has bought the new, digital camera, Olympus Camedia 680. First I was afraid using it, but since July I had tried make pictures with the new camera. After first not perfect result I started understand my camera better and pictures I made were better and better

Left: 19 October the rose 'Barbara Carrera' is still flowering in the stone planter (very close 'The Warm Corner')

Southern Wall in spring is starred with flowers.

They are mostly Clematis but also spring bulbs

Above left: Clematis montana (var.rubra), right: fringed tulips (white 'SwanWing', red 'Hellas') both 19 May

This year I made extended 'stone works' - not only I built ready the path to the entrance but also stone floor in 'The Warm Corner' to be a new, little patio

Left: Southern Wall wooden planter, now build over using light concrete bricks; late August. Many Dimorphoteca of yellow shadows was planted, grown from own seeds. Dimorphoteca is a very god to southern, dry spots like this, under the roof shelf

In summer 2003 the climbing roses ('New Dawn' and 'Morgensonne') in stone planters grew enormously up and rose-arch became really striking. Most abundant blossom occurs in July, but those roses repeat flowering also late summer

Rose arch with trellis. Above left: 'New Dawn' in July, you can also see the stone floor in 'The Warm Corner', Middle: More of the stone floor can be seen behind the rose-arch, July. Right: 'Morgensonne' on the rose arch also in July.

Southern wall with belonging the long stone planter were in bloom all the summer almost most aboundant of all in the garden

Left: 25 May, the work just began

Below right: It is already finished, and it became one more patio

Below left: 29 June, the floor is finished and the first tub with planted rose is put. Right: Me, relaxing after work, 23 August

Above right: The rose 'Ann Boleyn' in the large tub, 30 June. Below left: 28 June, 'Ann Boleyn'

Below left: Left side of 'The Warm Corner' with different summer flowers. Between stones self sown Pulmonaria variegata, in July

Left: The cover roses (here climbing): 'The Fairy' pink and 'Swany' - white, Clematis 'Ville de Lyon' 20 July.

Middle: Dimorphoteca in the long stone planter at the Southern Wall - 20 July, and right: Lilium orientale

'Italia'- 30 June

Above spring bulbs in the Stone Planter, left: a miniature Narcissus 'Hawer', 15 May, and right: Iris pumilla 'Pastel Charm' and narcissus 'Hawer', 13 May

Above and below left:Dimorphoteca 'Glistenning White' in stone planter, above 6 June and below left -

9 August

botanical tulips 'Praestans Fusilier' 26 April, left: in the old wooden planter, and above right: in the stone planter.

Left: Syringa vulgaris v. aucubaefolia, a lilac with variegated leaves. The shrub used to be moved to greenhouse for winter. It is the first flower, the 13 May 2004!

Above right: Clematis 'Mme de Coultre'. About every two years its flowers becoming double. 17 June

Below: The very nice rose Ann Boleyn (Austin) planted in a larger tub in 'The Warm Corner' -17 June

Above right: 'The Warm Corner' became a patio, where the 2-4 persons can have a rest and some tea or coffee, 20 July.

Left: The little rose 'Barbara Carrera' in the stone planter, 2 July

Left: in the long planter belonging to the Southern Wall, and around as well, every year are coming plenty of self sown white flowers - here 26 June: Chrisanthemum leucantheum, Ch. partenium

Left: The rose arch, stone planters and even 'The Warm Corner' on the pic, 28 June. This is very early for roses to flower in Sweden, but this year they did. You can see 'Morgensonne'.

Left: A month later the cover-climbing roses on the Southern Wall are in full bloom. Here 'The Fairy', 20 July.

Left: The abundant bloom on the Southern Wall, large clusters of pink 'The Fairy', and white 'Swany' 20 July.

Left: 20 July - this is the blossom time, mostly for roses. Here 'New Dawn' on the rose-arch (left side) and close-up pic on some beautiful flowers.

Above right - Dimorphoteca 'Yellow Pastels' flowering all the summer, here -

9 October (Southern Wall)

Left: The rose almost disappears in a clouds of Chrisanthemum partenium and Lobularia maritima, all self sown. 30 June

Later, in July the 6, the much more flowers was coming.

Right - the rose 'Ann Boleyn' is a little pliant and looks tired but still beautiful when found a support on the bricks of the stone planter..

Below left: 19 May,Syringa vulgaris v. aucubaefolia, a lilac with variegated leaves. It is planted in a larger tub, maybe in 2001.