Wild flowers in the woods

Walking my dog in the woods today, I brought my camera with me. The weather is overcast today, as you can see on this picture:

The Wood Anemones are out! They form a lovely green carpet underneath the trees.

Spring is the best season, I think. Listening to the birds and seeing all those lovely Wood Anemones made me light at heart.

Another wild flower that I found on my walk, was the Pile Wort. Round buds, opening up into a sweet little flower.

But as you can all see on the following pictures - the slugs are out as well... Evidently they have tasted the flowers. Nevertheless, Spring is here and I'm happy!

Do you have those two flowers in your country?

Wishing you all a Happy Spring! /Katarina

My new Camellia - and an award

I would like to show you my newest love. It's a Camellia - my second one - and I think it's adoreable. The thing with Camellias are that they don't particularly like the Swedish climate; they find it a bit too chilly. So I try to make my Camellias comfortable during winter - in our winter garden. They seem to like it there, except for sunny days when temperatures rise too high. Very soon now I will move the pots outside...spring is here!

A couple of days ago, I received an award from Shabby-chic Cat's gardening Close-ups!. It made me feel very happy - and proud! I started blogging less than a year ago, and it's a joy! To be invited into other people's gardens and to learn about new plants ... it's just great!

By accepting this award, I'm supposed to pass it along to 10 other blogs that I find interesting and well worth reading.

It's hard to choose only 10 blogs - the following 10 are amongst the blogs that I enjoy, so...here I go:

Growing a Garden in Davies
Robin's Nesting Place
Greenbow
New Sprout
Jardim com Gatos
Ute och Inne
Heimdal
Hoe and Shovel
Claires Garden
Garden Joy 4 Me

This is for you:

Wishing you all a lovely weekend! /Katarina

Wordless Wednesday

The blue sky of Spring...

Violets are blue

The snow is slowly melting away. Spring has decided to return. Tonight we're going to put our clocks and watches forward one hour - summertime is here.

In my borders the tiny Viola odorata has started to bloom. The colour is stunning - so very, very blue. And it smells heavenly. So, I forgive its invasive nature and bend down to enjoy the flowers.

Another Violet that I enjoy, is Viola hederacea. It's a Violet from Australia, if I'm not misinformed, so I keep it in my winter garden until the risk of frost is over. Like its cousin Viola odorata, it has a spreading habit. But its easily removed from unwanted spaces and the tiny flowers are very pretty indeed.

A distant cousin to those two Violets, is the Pansy. I just love pansies! The flowers often remind me of small, human faces and they are early bloomers which come in lots of different colours and sizes. I prefer the smaller varieties since they look more like violets. Especially the blue ones.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend with lots of sun! /Katarina

Wordless Wednesday

After Spring came Winter.....

Happy Easter!