Tyras Trädgård / Tyras Garden: Från resor

Tyra's Garden is a small garden on the island of Resarö situated in the inner part of the archipelago near the small town Vaxholm, outside Stockholm. Tyra's Garden is mostly an ornamental vegetable garden, my potager. But flowers are of course an important ingredience, for beauty and pollination. The climate in these parts is quite demanding as the northerly winds can be strong and cold. THIS BLOG 'Tyra's Garden' is not entirely a gardenblog it contains much more. About me: Enthusiastic amateur gardener and photographer from Vaxholm, Sweden. Designed and built my Greenhouse and Potager in Tyra's Garden 2003. Love the outdoor life, gardening and sailing especially. View my profile

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Friday

Highgate Cemetery - London

This post, 'Highgate Cemetery' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

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Highgate Cemetery

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Today I'm going to show you some pictures from my visit to this amazing place called Highgate Cemetery, just about one hour from the City of London's hectic pulse. I'm a huge fan and admirer of this enchanted spot on earth. It lush, green, so very beautiful and calm.

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The family Tomb of Samuel Whitfield.

The cemetery's grounds are full of mature trees, shrubbery and wild flowers all of which have been planted and grown without human influence. ( I don't think that is completely true) I found a numerous wild flowers like for instance Bluebells Scilla non-scripta and Ramsons Allium ursinum. The guide told me that in a few weeks the wild poppies Papaver will bloom and can you imagine the red 'lanterns' lighten up the grounds. It must be wonderful. The grounds are a haven for birds and small animal. The cemeterys tree crowns form a wonderful most amazing canopy and the sound in the cemetery or the lack of noice is overwhelming.

I think this old tree below is a Lebanon Cedar

Catacomb of P.W. Talbot

The Highgate cemetery is devided into two parts the West and the East Cemetery. All my pictures here are from the West Cemetery. This Victorian Cemetery was opened in 1839. The initial design was by the architect Stephen Geary.

'Although its most famous occupant in the east cemetery is probably Karl Marx (whose tomb's attempted bombing in 1970 is still recalled by some Highgate residents), there are many other prominent figures, Victorian and otherwise, buried at Highgate Cemetery.' Facts from Wikipedia read more here

If you want to visit The Highgate Cemetery I recommend you to go to the official website of Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust

Highgate Cemetery
Swain's Lane
Highgate
London
N6 6PJ

Telephone No. (+44) 020 8340 1834

East Cemetery

Open from 10.00am weekdays, 11.00am weekends. There is no charge for children under the age of 16 when accompanied by an adult.

East Cemetery Tours

There is a guided tour of the East Cemetery once a month, on the first Saturday of each month. Tours are about one hour in length, and are limited to 15 people. Tickets are sold at the East Cemetery gate on the day of the tour on a first come, first served basis. The tour cost of £5 includes entrance to the East Cemetery. People should gather at 2:15 P.M. for a prompt start at 2:30.

Western Cemetery

Admission to the West Cemetery is by guided tour only. We have tours all year.
Call the office of The friends of Highgate Cemetery on 0208 340 1834 to discuss arrangements.

Have a great weekend my friend!

LOLove TYRA

DON'T BE A STRANGER - WRITE SOMETHING

Blooming Friday! This is my contribrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participant here at Katarina.

Monday

London my Metropolis

This post, 'London my Metropolis' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/
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I’m back from London, my favourite Metropolis.

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I didn’t know and I actually just found out that London was in fact called Metropolis during the Victorian era. During this much to short visit to London my only ambition tourist-wise was to visit the famous (Victorian) Highgate Cemetery and I will give you a post about this fantastic place in a post shortly.

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Today I’m going to show you some pictures from an old and absolutely wonderful store called Fortnum & Mason. They have a lot of stuff even some lovely things for the garden, to posh for my taste. This time I want to share some other hilarious bits and pieces with you or what do you think about this Coffee and Tea set.

Everything is expensive in this store but the quality is exquisite! Thank God that I just had a small suitcase otherwise I would have been ruined. Though I was able to squeeze in a few beautiful tins with delicious biscuits.

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This is my favourite department....the Confectionary department.

It is a feast for the eye to see all those lovely Chocolates - Cakes and Bisquits - Sweets - Marmalades & Preserves.

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more of those colourful Teatime stuff...

One of the days we were out walking for more than 14 hours! Of course we stopped for coffee, snacks & beer, lunch, coffee again and supper :-) but still... we were very glad to find this bench. Isn't it just beautiful? Very comfortable too, I loved it so much that I looked it up up and it is from Gaze Burvill in UK and it is called Court Seat (cute name)

I saved the best to the last, finally a flower. Wisteria

More from Highgate LONDON on friday...until then I wish you all a great week.

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Happy Gardening!

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LOLove / TYRA

Tuesday

Forsmarks Bruk - Walloon Ironworks Town

En skön september dag tog vi bilen och for till Forsmarks Bruk. Det här ar ett av mina favorit bruk. Det är ett av Sveriges bäst bevarade bruk, det härstammar från 1570 talet. Kyrkan invigdes år 1800 och är ritad av Olof Tempelman, lite träffande namn ellerhur?

This absolutely gorgeous day in September we decided to go to Forsmarks Bruk. An industrial village where natural resources are processed is called a ”bruk” in Swedish. This is a Wallon ironworks town or rather village it dates back to the 16th century. The church consecrated in the year 1800 the architect was a man called Olof Tempelman a suitable name for a Church builder isn't it?

The Inn at Forsmark

You find beautiful environments, excellent cuisine and lodgings at the inn and manor at Forsmark. We just stayed the day but I do recommend to stay overnight. I had a glimpse of the à la carte meny and the food on the meny looked delicious.

The clocktower, picture taken from the courtyard of the new manor house.

The Manor - Den nya herrgården.

Monument Island in the English Park.

Monumentholmen, med i mitt tycke gräslig staty i Carreramarmor av J.N Byström föreställande Nereider som är lika med Vattengudomligheter.... say what! En Ibisfågel, en byst föreställande Samuel af Ugglas och en kvinna. Hualien som man säjer i Skåne.

The School of Charlotta founded 1861.

Det finns två små skolhus i Forsmark Charlottas och Theresas skola. Dom ser så idylliska och söta ut, jag hoppas att det var lika idylliskt att gå där.

Read more about The Wallon bruk i Uppland.

Have a nice day/
TYRA

Wednesday

Jesus in the green.

Healing - Just one look at this picture and I felt much better. I cannot explain but my headache and cold felt better after studying this picture. Weird? Yes, perhaps but I think I felt the coolness and stillness, it made me lower my head and close my eyes. The picture is taken this August when I visited the beautiful gardens of "Trädgårdsföreningen" in Gothenburg.

Jesus in the green

Thursday

Café and Bakery in Gränna - Fiket i Gränna

Chocolate balls, Sarah Bernards, Tosca, Vanilla Creme Hearts....and I have to choose one!

The Bakery in Gränna

This weekend we visited The Open Wharf Boat Fair in Gothenburg and on our way to GBG we stopped in a small and very picturesque town called Gränna. Gränna is famous for a special candy called Polkagrisar they are white and red striped candy sticks that taste mint, very nice but very bad for the teeth. This time we wanted to go to the famous “Fiket” an old fashion style Café and Bakery they serve great coffee and extremely nice bread. The bakery make all sorts of bread savoury and sweet and they are all absolutely wonderful.

Fiket i Gränna

I helgen besökte vi Öppna varv på Orust och på väg till Göteborg stannade vi till i Gränna för att besöka ”Fiket” i Gränna. Fiket, ja det heter faktiskt så är ett skönt gammalt hedligt fik. Fiket har underbart bröd allt ifrån varma mackor till godsaker som Katalaner, Toscakakor och annat mumsigt småbröd. Tänk er att sitta i solen med nybryggt kaffe och pinfärskt bröd…mmm, ett synnerligen njutbart besök, en paus i resan mot Göteborg.

Candy store with the famouse "Polkagrisar"

Tyra

Tuesday

I have an itch to paint!

Flowers upon the wall?

That could be an idea!

Lily at Baby Taj

You know I love painting as well as gardening. I showed you one’s my “Topiary upon the wall” painting I have done in one of our rooms and after the trip to India I’m so inspired to do some more painting!... perhaps a “flowers upon the wall” room. This is one of the places in India that truly put some ideas into my head. Look at this.

Itmad-Ud-Daulah - It has the nickname BABY TAJ – much more easy to say.

Shoes are not allowed so you have to wear special slippers

Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Tomb is a Mughal mausoleum in the city of Agra in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Often described as a 'jewel box'. the tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daulah is often regarded as a sketch of the Taj Mahal. I love this place it is so beautiful and the morning I was there we were alone there, so peaceful.
Along with the main building, the structure consists of numerous smaller buildings and beautiful gardens. The whole place has a most fascinating water system I can’t describe it now but it takes care of all the rainwater in a “canal system”. The tomb was built between 1622 and 1628. Commissioned by Nur Jahan for her father Mirza Ghiyas Beg who had been given the title Itmad-Ud-Daulah meaning “pillar of state”.

On this picture you can see some of the water canal that I mentioned above, though dry now.

Itmad-Ud-Daulah’s walls are made in white marble from Rajasthan, and the walls are covered with semi-precious stone decorations - Onyx, Cornelian, Jasper, Lapis Lazuli and Topaz in wonderful patterns and images of flowers, trees and other decors like fruit or vases containing flower arrangements. Light to the interior passes through delicate Jali screens of exquisitely carved in white marble. Like laces in marble it is so beautiful. I don’t know how they manage to do it. I think the jali is typical for Arabic architecture as well, I've seen similar jalis in Alhambra, Spain.

Almost 400 years old, semi-precious stone decorations.

What do you think, shall I have a go? Lilies and Papaver upon the wall, I dont know what the "tree" is but it's pretty.

TYRA

Flowers of India - The Lotus Flower

The biggest flower in India and probably in the world! I stumbled on this magnificent Lotus flower in New Delhi. It is The Bahá'í House of Worship. Isn't it fantastic?

Built in 1986, 40 meters tall and it is capable to hold 2,500 people. It's number of visitors per year 4,5 million or 13 000 everyday!

More about the Bahá'í religion below.

The central theme of Bahá'u'lláh's message is that humanity is one single race and that the day has come for its unification in one global society. God, Bahá'u'lláh said, has set in motion historical forces that are breaking down traditional barriers of race, class, creed, and nation and that will, in time, give birth to a universal civilization. The principal challenge facing the peoples of the earth is to accept the fact of their oneness and to assist the processes of unification.

TYRA

Sunday

I'm back!

Fascinated, dead beat and 6 pounds less of me I’m back after a journey to India.
What a country! 1 billion people and it feels like I met at least half of them. This was my first time in India and I hope I will be able to go back, there is so much to discover.

Delhi India

Taj Mahal Agra India

Whenever I go abroad I always look up the botanical gardens, this time was an exception, the nearest I came to a botanical garden was at Taj Mahal, Agra. They had a Tree of India Garden. Not a lot of people there and a shady and cool place to walk through, very nice.

I really enjoy "world music" and India has so much interesting music, fascinating instruments songs and dancers. I had the benefit to go to a traditional music and dance performance in The Amber Palace in Jaipur, I also went to the Cinema in Jaipur and watch a movie in Hindi! In Jaipur I also had the pleasure to attend a Hindu wedding. Most fascinating, all those absolutely gorgeous women in their saris, young as old they were all stunning, I felt very pale!

I still feel pale and weak, trying to recover from whatever I brought with me from India, this is the first day by the computer.... and it's nice to be back!

TYRA

Topiary - Thai style

A few years ago I visited Thailand and on my way down to Koh Chang (Elephant Island) I met these wonderful Topiary Elehpants at Trat Airport. Aren't they cute? And the shuttle too, look at that absolutely wonderful decorative painting of the shuttle.

Topiary the art of creating a sculpture of a plant More Topiary in Tyra's Garden

Colourful shuttle at Trat Airport in the province Trat, Thailand

Topiary elephants saluting all visitors.

Decorative topiary elephant and look even the airplanes are colorful and decorative....amazing

Love to here from you/ Tyra

Saturday

From 'The Land down under'

PhotoHunt - long

Music to go with it, Men at Work 'Land down under'

The theme on this weeks PhotoHunt is long. Not that long time ago I visited the 'Land down under'. The pictures are taken outside Port Douglas, very long roots, long beaches and a cute fellow that loves looong naps. The last picture is from Great Ocean Road, The mighty Twelve Apostles are world-recognised icons and those stone formations was been sculptured by wind and water for a very long period of time.

PhotoHunt long roots

Photohunt -Long walks along long beaches

Photohunt-Long nap, Koala Phascolarctos cinereus Koalas have a slow metabolism and sleep for most of the day.

Long time

The Twelve Apostles - Great ocean road. The relentless, stormy Southern Ocean and blasting winds gradually eroded the softer limestone, forming caves in the cliffs. The caves eventually became arches and when they collapsed, rock islands up to 45 metres high were left isolated from the shore.

PhotoHunt in Technorati

TYRA