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

Tuesday

Syringa vulgaris - Lilacs

This post, 'Syringa vulgaris' - was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog The greenhouse in Tyra's Garden http://tyras-greenhouse.blogspot.com/ABC Wednesday this week it is S for ...Syrén or Syringa vulgaris in latin.




In Swedish we call them Farmer Lilacs (Bondsyrener) I guess they are called that because they are so easy to grow here and everyone can afford them and they are easy to propagate as well. Here at Engarn Village I think all the gardens got them and along the village road there are a lot as well.

The last thing I did yeasterday evening was to cut the lawn and that is so wonderful to do when the fruit trees and the Lilacs are all in bloom, the scents are wonderful. Pure joy to ride around on the lawn mower listening to good music and breathing the evening air and scents. This picture of the greenhouse is from this very morning when I was catching my S for this week. Syringa vulgaris.
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Garden History
Lilacs— both Syringa vulgaris and S. x persica, the finer, smaller "Persian Lilac", now considered a natural hybrid— were introduced into European gardens at the end of the sixteenth century, from Ottoman gardens, not through botanists exploring the Balkan habitats of S. vulgaris. The Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, is generally credited with supplying lilac slips to Carolus Clusius, about 1562. Well-connected botanists, like the great herbalist John Gerard, soon had the rarity in their gardens: Gerard notes that he had lilacs growing “in very great plenty” in 1597, but lilacs were not mentioned by Shakespeare, and John Loudon was of the opinion that the Persian lilac had been introduced into English gardens by John Tradescant the elder. Tradescant's Continental source for information on the lilac , and perhaps ultimately for the plants, was Pietro Andrea Mattioli, as one can tell from a unique copy of Tradescant's plant list in his Lambeth garden, an adjunct of his Musaeum Tradescantianum; it was printed, though probably not published, in 1634: it lists Lilac Matthioli. That Tradescant's "lilac of Mattioli's" was a white one is shown by Elias Ashmole's manuscript list, Trees found in Mrs Tredescants Ground when it came into my possession (1662): "Syringa alba".
In the American colonies lilacs were introduced in the eighteenth century. Peter Collinson, F.R.S., wrote to the Pennsylvania gardener and botanist John Bartram, proposing to send him some, and remarked that John Custis of Virginia had a fine "collection", which Ann Leighton interpreted as signifying Common and Persian Lilacs, in both purple and white, "the entire range of lilacs possible" at the time.
This text is from wikipedia Syringa vulgaris

Lilacs at Engarn.



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Quid novis ex Tyra's Garden?

This post, 'Quid novi ex Tyra's Garden?' - My small piece of heaven' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog The greenhouse in Tyra's Garden http://tyras-greenhouse.blogspot.com/
ABC Wednesday this week it is Q for ...Quid novi ex*




Quid novi ex Tyra’s Garden?






Well it must be the Asparagus.



I harvested my first asparagus this weekend, what a joy and had a wonderful meal with Serrano ham, asparagus glazed with butter and basil, a few baby plum tomatoes, a piece bread and a glass of wine. Simple but great food, that’s the way I like it – no fuss.


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The POTAGER - My small piece of heaven.

This post, 'The Potager - My small piece of heaven' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog The greenhouse in Tyra's Garden http://tyras-greenhouse.blogspot.com/
ABC Wednesday this week it is P for POTAGER.
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My Potager - My small piece of heaven on earth.
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This is one of the places I love the best, here I find peace and happiness. My POTAGER is a place to work hard in or relax in. POTAGER is a French term for an ornamental vegetable or kitchen garden. Flowers herbs and spices are planted with the vegetables to enhance the garden's beauty and to make a healthy and sustainable garden. The goal is to make the function of providing food aesthetically pleasing and to give me pleasure and joy. If you have a Potager you get a lot of fresh air, exercise and aboundance of healthy food.
My plants, shrubs and trees are chosen as much for their functionality as for their colour and form. Many plants are trained to grow upward like peas and beans to save space. A well-designed POTAGER can provide berries, fruits and vegetables as well as cut flowers and herbs for the home during many months of the year. My favourites are the tomatoes and if you are interested you find a lot of tomatoes here, this year I grow a lot of heirlooms.
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Today I harvest some lovely asparagus, parsley and chives for my lunch. I wish more people would grow their own food. They say you should buy local food well folks...it doesn't get more local than this. If you haven't tried it before I really can recommend you to put some seeds in the soil, nurse your plants and then later on get the joy of harvesting and eating your own food.



I wish you all a great Wednesday!

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