Summer Garden at Cherry Tree Cottage

Life is like a bowl of cherries...or at least like a tree full of cherries!


Cherry picking!


My scarecrow is doing a great job of keeping the birds off our veggie patch


A baby Transparente Blanche apple on its way into the world!


Thinning out the apples on one of our apple trees


The veggie patch is coming along nicely :-)


Gooseberries


White currants


Our Ingrid Marie apple tree


Our old cherry tree, gives us loads of fruit every year (if it ripens quick enough and the birds don't eat all the cherries before we can pick them!!)

Christel up a tree....and other things

We've pruned all our fruit trees today as they were badly in need of doing. Christel did the dangerous climbing stuff....



....I stayed on ground level with the tree saw (looking a bit like the Grim Reaper...!)



And the first Snowdrops are out!! :-DD It's Spring!!

Ronaldo the Robin - Lurking in the bush!

Aren't they the most adorable of birds! I'm pleased I got this shot!


He's been hiding under our snow-covered bush so we've put more food out for him now :-)

Ratatouille anyone?

Next zucchini off the plant: le big one!

September days at Cherry Tree Cottage

Little fluffy clouds above Cherry Tree Cottage. Autumn in Sweden is a wonderful time of year. :-D


The olives have now ripened on the tree. The question now is, what the dickins shall we do with them!!!


A spider guards its raspberry.


Our autumn raspberries are now starting to ripen.


Rood food! A naughty plum from our plum tree. ;-))


Christel picks the ripened raspberries. By the time we've eaten the first batch the rest will be ready.


Best view of the garden, hehe! ;-P

Christel's Cucumber

Coming along nicely :-P

Frozen Garden

Voyeur!


The Darling Buds Of January :-))


Snow crystals


Trying to keep warm

Border work in the garden

Christel has done a great job weeding and clearing out some old plants as well as adding the stone border to make it easier to cut the grass round the borders. We'll add some more plants as the season progresses


Here you can see how it looked before. Just a few more metres to go!


At the bottom of the garden there are some cute Narcissas, just in time for Easter! :-D

Fixing the patio

Christel has been busy fixing the patio today as we wanted to get rid of the borders around the patio.





Shaping up!



Done!!

Garden Design

Being a good girl and doing my homework. This is just a rough sketch up of our garden.

Snowdrops in the garden

Global warming? What global warming?!

Autumnal garden

Christel has been cutting back bushes and other flowering plants, while I've been raking up the leaves in the cold autumn weather. Somehow I get the feeling I'll be filling a few more bags before the end of the month!