text and images britt-arnhild
Summer, Sunday and a trip to the monastery island of Tautra, Terje, I, my parents.
The new monastery at Tautra opened in 2006 (you can read the whole interesting history here), and since then the nuns and their friends have worked hard to create the garden surrounding the buildings.
Do you know this yellow flower?
In Norway we call it marikåpe.
The Latin name is alchemikka vulgaris.
Marikåpe means Mary´s Coat.
The monastery at Tautra is a Mariakloster, a St.Mary monastery.
I love it when plants and flowers are used to tell something.
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One day I would love to create a Biblical Garden in a corner of The Blue Garden.
