A June Bouquet

What's Blooming in my Garden

Not a lot is blooming right now, as we had the coldest, wettest, most depressing spring.

I have a couple of raised beds for vegetables, which were not particularly happy with all this rain and cold. Not the zucchini! I loves it all and has started to produce ... just flowers for the times being, but it's getting there

Yes, I still have daffodils, these seems to last for a very long time - about a month in full bloom and they smell nice, too.

Talking about smell, this one has such a strong fragrance that, at dawn, I can feel it from the balcony on the first floor

The white muscari seems to be the last one to bloom in my garden (I also have pink and blue)

These a teeny-tiny tulips, which have 2-3 flowers per stem. They're quite cute

A ranunculus I planted last sprin that came back, but my phone did not manage to capture its colour very well.

These are my very late tulips, but i forgot their name and I don't like them all that much either.
Should probably move them from this mainly pink border

Blueberries!

My young lilac tree has only given me one flower spray this spring, not particularly generous

These are my new favourite tulips! I love, love, love them!
They're called Double Carnaval de Nice and their shape, colours and perfume are simply perfect.
Must buy more of the same in autum.


After almost a month struggling to open its buds, my first clematis flowers are here and they are huge, and they are pretty and climbing the arch like crazy.
I do hope next year they'll be a sight to behold.

A Evening Ride through Instagram

Just a few minutes' bike ride from home and we're at the old mill.
All is peaceful there and it is a fresh green right now.

Yesterday evening we took our son for a ride on this beautiful bike trail that starts at 200m from our home and goes all the way to the center of Luxembourg.

The great thing is that we don't need to go that far to enjoy it. From the very beginning, it's all green, quiet, with only the birds' song and the river to accompany you along the road.

I must say it's my favourite track in Luxembourg. 

I instantly fell in love with it about 4 years ago when I did it from one end to the other and discovered this perfect oasis of nature in the middle of the town.

Today, I am only posting a few pictures from our stop at the old mill, but I'm sure you'll understand my excitement about it, even if they're only photos I took with my phone.

 ...and my bike taking a rest before heading back home

Sunday Morning on the Balcony

A perfect Sunday morning

In and around the Garden through Instagram

a story of February & March - winter, spring, winter and, hopefully, spring again

Early October Morning through Instagram

Autumn mornings have a certain something that makes them dream-like, that makes them look like scenes from a Bronte's novel. The country side here is simply picture perfect, at least to my eyes. This morning there was a light fog, but not the usual darkness coming with the cloudy skies. You could tell it'd be sunny later on in the day.

When I returned home, I made a couple of bouques from the garden, one of them with my best dahlia - chocolate coloured and even with a light chocolate fragrance.

July in Instagram

I had no time lately, so no entries were edited. I had two full months, but I did manage to take a few pictures, most of them using my phone and the Instagram app.