Waiting for the rain

Just in case there will be heavy rain today, I picked a couple of peonies and brought them inside.

Now's the time

I don't usually pick flowers for inside use but as there was talk about storm today, I picked some lilies to have a few in case everything falls down due to wind and rain. Thankfully the peonies are still in bud so they should survive.

On the cutting edge

Nowadays I love cut flowers. My husband is a bit amazed that now we have tens of vases when we used to have none. As we had a four day stay in the country I splashed out and bought cut flowers for two large arrangements. One below is in the sitting room, the other (same flowers) is in the kitchen.

Flowers for sale

We went to the cottage today and I picked a lot of flowers. I'll put them for sale in tomorrow's flea market. And if they aren't sold I'll just put them in vases around my own garden.

I wonder where does all our money go

I once again got a bit carried away when buying summer flowers. But they look good, don't they? The cut flowers are from my cottage garden so at least they didn't cost anything.

Have a nice Sunday!

It is not very colourful outside so once again the carnations save the day.

If it's broken (or damaged), don't fix it

This could be my new motto. The metal garden table has rust and the blue paint has flaked. And it looks even better than when we found it in a garbage bin :) Yes, you can find usable stuff in bins...this one was like new, maybe someone didn't like the colour.

The more the better

I brought most of the metal garden decorations from the cottage to Vårkulla and have to say I love to have a lot of decorations in the garden! The leaves also look good, shame they don't stay like this for the whole winter.

Basket case

Old baskets do well in autumnal flower arrangements as these don't need to be watered. Use beautiful leaves, blueberry sticks etc.

Autumn is yellow

There are still some flowers to pick.

White is not a colour

I used to love white flowers. I still do but I like the colourful ones even more.

Visiting the cottage

We went to the cottage today to mown the lawn and to prepare the cottage for winter.  I picked up some late autumn flowers for a bouquet to take with me to Vårkulla.