just here... at home...

moin moin everyone! :)

it's summer again! it's been quite a long time since the last time i blogged here in my flip - flops and backpack, after travelling to Turkey and some places in Europe like Austria, France and Switzerland, Michael and me decided to stay at home this summer, and enjoy the season together with my in laws :) but in September we'll be travelling again, where? we don't know yet.

here are some of my summer photos at home in our " klein aber fein" ( small but fine) balkon :) hope you guys are enjoying the season too :) let's enjoy summer while it's here! :)

" A Life without Love... is like a year without summer....." Swedish Proverb.

endlich summer

i miss blogging! sorry for my long silence everyone, just been busy for the past weeks about important family matters, but i brought you some beautiful flowers :) yes, summer is here at long last ! :) enjoy viewing guys i'll try to post again some more.

have a wonderful week everyone! :)

Summer is here ;)

On with my flip-flops and sunglasses...


No thick jackets, no shawl no winter boots, wow! Summer is here ;)

One thing i like in Summer here are those beautiful flowers, they are simply wonderful. Got some pictures here from our small but fine balkon which turned into a "little jungle" when summer comes ;)

here we sit and enjoy the weather ;)

and here also we make bbq with some friends or just the two of us ;)







Fuchsia (pronounced /ˈfjuːʃə/ FEW-shə) is a genus of flowering plants, mostly shrubs, and can grow long shoots, which were identified by Charles Plumier in the late-17th century, and named by Plumier in 1703 after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).[1] The English name fuchsias is frequently misspelled "fuschias".








Geranium is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as the cranesbills. It is found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. These attractive flowers will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged. Propagation is by semi-ripe cuttings in summer, by seed, or by division in autumn or spring.





Impatiens (pronounced /ɪmˈpeɪʃənz/)[1] is a genus of about 850–1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and tropics. Together with the puzzling Hydrocera triflora, this genus makes up the family Balsaminaceae. Such a situation is highly unusual, and phylogenetic studies might reveal that Impatiens needs to be split up; some of its species might be closer to Hydrocera than to their presumed congeners.

Petunia is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, in the family Solanaceae. The popular flower got its name from French, which took the word petun 'tobacco' from a Tupi-Guarani language. Most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids (Petunia x hybrida)[1].



our tomatoes ;) soon to be tomato salad ;)

Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, perennial plants native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. There are at least 36 species of dahlia. Dahlia hybrids are commonly grown as garden plants. The Aztecs gathered and cultivated the dahlia for food, ceremony, as well as decorative purposes,[1] and the long woody stem of one variety was used for small pipes.

in this photo you can see the deco sun and moon we bought it in Italy in a terracota shop in San Gimignano



this plant is still a puzzle to me maybe somebody knows what 's it's name?










in the evening hubby and me spend most of our time here, talk about anything until midnight ;) with the lamp on from Thailand ;)

summer is here ;) what a lovely gift from above! have a wonderful summer everyone! ;)

Note: informations about the flowers are from Wikipedia.

All photos are taken in Wolfenbüttel, Germany by: maricar

Gladiolus

The genus Gladiolus contains about 260 species, of which 250 are native to sub-Saharan Africa, mostly South Africa. About 10 species are native to Eurasia. There are 160 species of Gladiolus endemic in southern Africa and 76 in tropical Africa. The species vary from very small to the spectacular giant flower spikes in commerce.
These attractive, perennial herbs are semihardy in temperate climates. They grow from rounded, symmetrical corms, that are enveloped in several layers of brownish, fibrous tunics.
Their stems are generally unbranched, producing 1 to 9 narrow, sword-shaped, longitudinal grooved leaves, enclosed in a sheath. The lowest leaf is shortened to a cataphyll. The leaf blades can be plane or cruciform in cross section.
The fragrant flower spikes are large and one-sided, with secund, bisexual flowers, each subtended by 2 leathery, green bracts. The sepals and the petals are almost identical in appearance, and are termed tepals. They are united at their base into a tube-shaped structure. The dorsal tepal is the largest, arching over the three stamens. The outer three tepals are narrower. The perianth is funnel-shaped, with the stamens attached to its base. The style has three filiform, spoon-shaped branches, each expanding towards the apex.
The ovary is 3-locular with oblong or globose capsules, containing many, winged brown, longitudinally dehiscent seeds. In their center must be noticeable the specific pellet like structure which is the real seed without the fine coat. In some seeds this structure is wrinkled and with black color. These seeds are unable to germinate.
These flowers are variously colored, pink to reddish or light purple with white, contrasting markings, or white to cream or orange to red.
The South African species were originally pollinated by long-tongued anthrophorine bees, but some changes in the pollination system have occurred, allowing pollination by sunbirds, noctuid and sphingid moths, long-tongued flies and several others. In the temperate zones of Europe many of the hybrid large flowering sorts of gladiolas can be pollinated by small well-known wasps. Actually, They are not very good pollinators because of the large flowers of the plants and the small size of the wasps. Another insect in this zone which can try some of the nectar of the gladioli is the best-known European Hawk-moth Macroglossum stellatarum which usually pollinates many famous garden flowers like Petunia, Zinnia, Dianthus and others.




informations are from Wikipedia, photos are taken in Wolfenbüttel, Germany by: Maricar