I appreciate you visiting my page, and I hope you will take time to look at some of the photos I have taken. The photos with the link underneath are the first pictures I placed on my page.1998 I took a lot of new photos and resized them to make the page load faster. The quality of the small photos is reduced, so if you would like to get a better view, please click on the thumbnails. I am currently taking new photos to improve my page, so please come back if you enjoy gardening.
My home is in Molde, a small town at the westcoast of Norway at about 63 degrees north, and my garden is about 1500 squaremeters surrounding my house. I have a lot of old trees, birchs, pines, piceas, spruces, querqus, and many evergreen bushes, chamaecyparis, bamboo, ilex, juniperus, taxus, thuja, which means that parts of my garden are shadowed. My selection of flowers are therefore limited, but from early spring till late autumn flowering bulbs, annuals, perennials and flowering bushes lighten up between the evergreens.
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I have wintergreen Vinca Minor beside the steps from my terrace to the garden
and it starts flowering in early April
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At about the same time Euphorbia,
an early perennial, lightens up with its yellow heads 
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In April the first rhododendron Rhod.Carolinianum P.J.Messit blooms with its
purpur flowers
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Next to Rhod.Carolinianum stands Rhod.Wardii Goldkrone with its yellow blooms
It flowers in May 
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I have 3 varieties of Meconopsis (grandes, betonicifolia and horridula). This
picture shows Meconopsis Grandes
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Even if Meconopsis "the blue papaver" is magnficent, it can´t beat the shining
red Papaver orientale
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Mahonia aquifolium is a wintergreen bush, covered with yellow flowers in May.
Later dark blue berries. It thrives and blooms excellent in shadow
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The hedge around part of my garden, Prunus Laur. "Otto Luyken", is covered with
white flowers in summer and black berries in winter
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I grow raspberries, currents, black currents and gooseberries and this plumtree
(Opal). It is a pity I didn`t take the time to thin it, the plums didn`t taste
as good as usual !
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This picture of colchicum
(in Norway we call it "Naked Virgin") was taken September 24th. It grows under an old Chamaecyparis Notkaensis Pendula 
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Oct. 9th this wonderful butterfly (Red Admiral) visited my Cimicifuga ramosa.
Part of its wings is spotted in white and thus got blended with the background
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Asters offer a wide variety of colors and flower types in annuals and
perennials, this photo shows a perennial called "Starlight"
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In memory of Marion who passed away 17 April 2001.