The Greenhouse,

is about growing matters, focusing on my greenhouse and potager. I grow mainly vegetables, herbs and spices but flowers have their given place too. From seed to table, this is the nursery for my living food, we cook a lot of delicious food and I say a potager is the cook’s best friend. The greenhouse makes it possible to grow essential, colourful, warmth loving fruit and vegetables even in this climate such as tomatoes and chillies. My main blog is Tyras Trädgård/Tyra's Garden. View my profile

Wednesday

ABC Wednesday 'B' for Buxus sempervirens

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ABC Wednesday ‘B’ This week I'll post an ABC in both The Greenhouse and Tyra's Garden.


'B'

Buxus sempervirens




A small topiary made of a Boxwood, just few years old. I make a lot of these topiary each year, I guess I like them a lot because it's an evergreen shrub and we haven't got a lot of those here in Scandinavia. Buxus sempervirens got it's name from Carl von Linné back in 1753. Buxus means box and sempervirens evergreen.







Buxus sempervirens is a flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey.
It is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 1-9 m tall, with a trunk up to 20 cm diameter The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, green to yellow-green, oval, 15-30 mm long and 5-13 mm broad. The hermaphrodite flowers are inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, with no petals and are pollinated by insects; the fruit is a three-lobed capsule containing 3-6 seeds. wikipedia Buxus


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B is for Blotanical, yes that is correct not Botanical. Read more here in Tyra's Garden
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TYRA

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ABC Wednesday A is for...

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ABC Wednesday 'A'


A as in Appleblossom, AZURE and Anthroposophist.


This pictures is taken far, far from the Côte d'Azur it is taken on a warm and lovely day in May in Åkerby (Uppland). The pink appleblossom goes well with the Azure blue sky I think. By the way have you started with the pruning of your apples yet? Or are you doing like the Anthroposophists does, using the J.A.S pruning method? Generally I do, but if there is very much that has to be done I take both methods that year. Early spring and J.A.S pruning.


Azure is a blue color on the HSV color wheel at 210 degrees. Azure is the hue that is halfway between blue and cyan. Its complementary color is orange. Azure is a near synonym for the color blue. Commonly it refers to a bright blue, resembling the sky on a bright, clear day.
The term azure derives from the Persian لاژورد (lazhward), which was the name of a place in modern Turkestan known for its deposits of lapis lazuli (“stone of lazhward”). The word was adopted into Old French by the twelfth century. From the French it was adopted into English as a near synonym for "blue". The first recorded use of azure as a color name in English was in 1374. wikipedia Azure



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ABC Wednesday Z

© This post - ABC Wednesday Z , was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog The greenhouse in Tyra's Garden
...Zinnia

ABC Wednesday Z is for Zinnia

and Zzzztill hibernating.

Zinnia one of my favorite flower in my potager. The Zinnias adds colour and attracts the bees and buttesflies.

Ztill hibernating...

ZZZZZzzzzzz...and dreaming...in the greenhouse
Z


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TYRA

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Sunday

Winter in the greenhouse.



It is still very cold in the greenhouse. The spring seems to be far, far away, but I have now ordered my seeds for 2009 and that is one step in the right direction. It took me at least 8 hours to decide what to order. When looking through all the beautiful catalogues it is not an easy task to decide which ones to choose. The pictures in the glossy brochures are all overgenerous and stunning, especially the vegetables. Well now it is done and in a few days I have them in the mailbox.

Exciting

Tyra

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