Category: Landskapsdesign
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Dahlias in their glorious splendor
“If we design our gardens to be regenerative, the result will be functional, beautiful spaces full of life and vigour, robust enough to face the challenges of the future and elegant enough to beguile all those who walk among them.” ― Rees-Warren, Matt
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Apple pie or rustic cake with tomatoes, leeks and Grana Padano cheese?
The new week started and after work hours it is nice to enjoy an appetizer or a piece of cake in good company. Here I just baked a crisp puff pastry stuffed with leek, zucchini and small cherry tomatoes already sautéed with a knob of butter, a sprinkling of sea salt, black pepper and grana…
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Here Come the Hyacinths
It’s time to stand up on your toes and dance. Wishing everybody a good day 🙂❤
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From The Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes
Up on the terrace on March 1st The Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes “To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”― Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers As…
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On January 1st 2023
It was an extraordinary surprise this morning. Myriads of tiny twinkling drops of dew on the long thin freesia leaves in the large vases of the terrace were announcing the beginning of the new year, on this January 1st 2023. A new season will be coming and, soon, it will be an exultation of blooms…
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A pink marguerites daisies bouquet to celebrate December 8th
Last Spring, I enjoyed gardening and planted tiny delicate marguerites in the green terrace. They looked so pretty with their lively colors. At the beginning of the Autumn season, I moved them on the front street balcony in order to stay much longer in the sun during the day, while I could enjoy their bright…
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Ripe pomegranates, a welcome gift in October
October just started and has already given us a wonderful basket of ripe, juicy pomegranates we enjoyed to pick fresh from the tree in our kitchen garden. Not only they are a magnificent precious gift for our own health and excellent delicacy for our palate, but also they will be a welcome, appreciated present for…
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A close-up on my friends, the Mallards
When you are in Stockholm, you can’t miss to have a walk by the water, where, often, you can meet little friendly mallards. They get close to you with curiosity and calm attitude and let you take pictures of them. Indeed, it seems they are almost accustomed to the presence of human beings. They are…
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Tulips for the weekend
At the floral market wonderful tulips got my attention. They are among the first flowers to bloom at Springtime. I read somewhere they are symbol of “rebirth”. Indeed, it is a small wonderful miracle nature renews every year at this time of the year with all new blooms. So, a bouquet of tulips should be…
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From the Project: In the Kitchen Garden – Flowers, Vegetables and Quotes
It was this morning when I caught this view of the zinnias flowers in the garden. They are still there, beautiful in their lively brightness and tall in their daring effort to reach for the sky. I saved the seeds for the next good season. Would you save the seeds of your efforts for the…
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