Lapsana communis (Linnunkaali)
One of the most common weeds in my garden. It is annual, but one plant may produce thousands of seeds, so it is difficult to eliminated....
Diversity in boreal region & unusual survivors
One of the most common weeds in my garden. It is annual, but one plant may produce thousands of seeds, so it is difficult to eliminated....
Lantana is a very common tropical and subtropical plant and in those areas an invasive species. In boreal region it survives the winters...
My mother had this "broken heart" in her garden when I was a child. It is still now one of the most popular and beautiful perennial...
L.maculatum grows wild in Europe and western Asia. It is sometimes seen in Finnish gardens as decorative land covering plant in is quite...
This wild perennial plant resembles very much the common nettle, at least before the white flowers appear. The leaves are partly...
A perennial land cover plant from Central Europe. Though it is wintergreen and comes from the temperate region, it is hardy also in the...
On of the most persistent weeds of my garden. The species is not at all common everywhere and in Finland it is restricted to the south...
A perennial wild flower, which attracts a lot of all kind of insects. It is also the food plant for the diurnal hawk moth Hemaris tityus....
A beautiful, hardy and low growing land cover fo North American origin. The bluish varieties are the most popular ones. J.horizontalis...
Th wild juniper grows as one of the most common conifers on the rock behind my garden. Also some specimens have been rooted inside the...
This is just a low growing variety of the common wild juniper. This plant is used to cover the empty spaces between the higher conifers...
An exotic tree from north China and east Russia. Tolerates the cold winters generally well but needs a lot of light and nutritious soil....
This succulent is very common in all gardens. It has a shape of an open cone and it grows as large carpets on very poor soil an on rocks....
The bright yellow J.vulgaris is one of the most striking flowers decorating the roadsides in late July. You may find it mostly in...
This high growing, yellow Iris prospers near the pond, typical for this water loving plant. It is quite common in southern Finland along...
This annual species came from Central Asia in the middle of 18th century. After that it has became quickly common killing effectively all...
I have two color varieties of this evergreen shrub, one completely green and one of form Argenteamarginata. Both have been outside at...
This bush-like giant St John's wort comes from North America, where everything is bigger. The flowers are bright yellow and the leaves...
A common wild perennial flower, also used as decorative plant. It is some poisonous while its close relative H.maculatum is commonly...
This succulent grows in my garden both as an original wild plant and a commercial decorative variety with pink flowers. Telephium is the...