DIY My first selve made Greenery in Sweden

This is the first year I started sawing seeds inside early March. Maybe a little too early because the snow left late, beginning of April. But despite of that, with some help of me, a lot of them managed to get outside. Some carrots, rocketsalat, basil, onions and some flowers. Now they have to grow in the kitchen garden. We started to make one in the back of the garden. Because of the deer we need to fence it. I really hope they will succeed. Keep my fingers crossed.

DIY Elderflowersyrup

Yes, we made it ourselves... and it is very easy going. It is very nice when you are thirsty on a hot summer day.

You need:

• 10-20 elderflower blossom (pick them in June on a dry day)
• 1 lemon
• 600 gr sugar
• vanille essence
• 6 dl water

Even more flowers wil make it more tasty. You need the sugar to keep it over longer, you can use less when you drink it soon (in 1-3 days).

How to fix:

• Clean the lemon, make slices. Put it with the flowers in a big pan or small but clean hink.
• Cook the water with the sugar till the sugar has disappeared. Put in just a little vanilla essence.
• Put all together with the flowers and cover it.
• Leave it for 3-4 days in normal room temperature.
• Take of all the flowers with a sief and put the syrup in clean cooked bottles.

You can even make summerpunch out of it, just put in some white wine and soda just before drinking. Cheers!

A queen page in my garden

I have never seen this butterfly before, a Queen page. I heard about it, it's not often seen. Today it landed on a flower in my garden. What a natural beauty! I found out you can see it in Sweden when you are lucky....