During my long morning walk yesterday, I passed so many beautiful houses with flowers all around. My camera was busy, I was all smiling.
Then I came back home to the farm of Dagmar and Hans, and realised that the most beautiful flower house of all was the one behind their farm.
As I walked up to the house the owner came out. I am no master in German, but as he spoke no English I had to dig deep into my brain to get out the German words and sentences I know. And I am proud to say that I managed quite well :-)
Three hours is needed every day for watering these plants!
Breathing in all this beauty I started to miss my own garden, especially wondering how my peonies are doing. I have a collection of peonies, placed at different parts in the garden, and now I sent an sms to Terje to his cellphone asking: "How is our garden doing, do you know if the peonies are blooming yet? If they are, can you please ask Marta to take a photo and send it to me?"
I got an email from Marta in the afternoon, but no photo. "Have you spoken to pappa?"I asked, "I wanted him to ask you to take a photo of the peonies by the bird feeder"
"Oh, by the bird feeder. Pappa was so sure you meant the flowers near the playhouse, and they are not blooming."
Well, I should have been more spesific. I have several peonies near the playhouse, but they are new and will probably not bloom in a couple of years yet. How could Terje know :-)
By the way, I spoke with Terje in the evening and he told me that no peonies were blooming yet, but the deep red ones near the bird feeders have huge buds.
