So far this Spring and start of Summer has given the ideal weather for the garden: Raining during the nights and sunshine during the days. Such wonderful difference from last year’s extreme heat. Come along for a short walk!
These are only some of my flowers – but I am so glad they survived last summer’s heat! I adore the little rain gauge my son bought for mother’s day.
My wild roses were planted maybe 20 years ago – I got them from a friend who in his turn had got them from a little old lady in a forest cottage.
I love those little ones – a sea of pink! If you study the bumble bees below, you will understand how small these roses are.
This year, the Painted Lady, being a long-distance migrant, caused the most spectacular butterfly migration observed in Sweden.
Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonizing mainland Europe and reaching Sweden and even Svalbard. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, but never as early as this year. I usually see them in my Buddleijas in late summer.
This year they migrated in millions, and Gotland, our biggest island, received more than 6000 of them in some hours. In my garden now, I have hundreds of them. Some battered and torn – but who wouldn’t be after such a flight!
Leya 
Isn’t it amazing to think they will travel so far! Lovely images .. 🙂
It is amazing – and one of nature’s wonders!
Gorgeous, Ann-Christine! Your images are wonderful! I’m trying to imagine hundreds of butterflies in your garden. You must have hundreds of pictures. 🙂 🙂
So glad you like the butterflies too – and I do have some shots of them…but I just love walking by the bushes, flowers and trees, to feel the wings fluttering. Unbelievable this is happening – there were hardly any butterflies at all last year.
Just gorgeous! We only have patio and roof terrace so we have to be creative. 🙂 🙂
And creative you are!!!
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Your garden flowers are beautiful and how amazing to have so many painted ladies. It is a few years since we have had any here.
Yes, we don’t have them every year, and never so many! But it is wonderful to see them fluttering between all the flowers the whole day! Quite unbelievable.
beautiful garden, A-C and i love the rain gauge!
;-D thank you!
Så fina blombilder och Tistelfjärilar har jag också gott om i min trädgård.
Tack – jag förstår att hela Sverige har dem – överallt! Men härligt är det!
Ja visst är det, det är bara att njuta av dem. Du bor alltså i Sverige Leya, jag hade fått för mig England. Haha.
Kanske för att jag skriver på engelska? Jag började bloggen för att dela min poesi – som är på svenska – men upptäckte snart att på engleska når man ut. Med foton i alla fall ;-D
Your garden is looking lovely, …and how cool is the little rain gauge!
Thank you, Sue – I adore the gauge!
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Lovely garden…at last we are getting the larger variety of flowers and colours. We have been short of water…that is until this week when the heavens opened and we now have floods and a garden well battered by the heavy rains – and it is still raining heavy as I type. 🙂
…and now we are having heavy rains here too. So glad I spent that much time in my garden to enjoy the scent!
Love every single shot! ❤️
Thank you so much, Irene!
Oh my, so beautiful! I would love to take a walk in your garden! So pretty flowers 🙂 I can imagine the smell 🙂
Well – welcome over for a garden party!
Oh so fabulous. The garden is a treat. Finishing the post with such wonderful news about the Painted Lady Butterflies made me smile.
Glad I made you smile! I love these days with an abundance of butterflies – never happened here before!
It is lovely!
Thank you! Gardens takes a lot of work – not always I find the time …
Beautiful garden, AC! I envy you 😊 the first one is my favorite! Thank you for sharing with us!
;-D Thank you!