Sjöbygget (by Arntz Creations): The Secret Garden

Thursday 1 June 2017

The Secret Garden

Motto for life

When we moved to Sweden it was our big dream to make a garden again. Around the old days school "Sjöbygget i Vittaryd". We were told that the old lady who was living there, after the school was closed in the fifties, had a beautiful garden. We had a lot of dreams. It should be full of flowers, with a lot of green and grasses, fit in the natural area around it and easy to maintain. The famous Dutch garden designer from The Netherlands, Piet Oudolf is a big inspiration for us. His famous designs show a natural way of planting including the beauty of the circle of life in the garden. You only have to google to find some examples of gardens designed by his hand. It is even easy to recognize his philosophy. Do you want to know more about him and his work? gardenista: 8 favorite landscape ideas by Dutch Designer Piet Oudolf

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor piet oudolf sweden

Typical Piet Oudolf Garden & Picture

When we arrived a lot of borders had nearly disappeared while it wasn't maintained at all. The grass and Sevenleaf was ruling all over. The trees who were planted lang ago were grown to big. New trees grow up out of wild seeds, like mountain ashes ("Sorbus"), Pinetrees en Acers. So there was a big jobb to do. It is a challenge as well, because we are not used to garden in forest areas, we don't know the ground as well as our mothers land, the climate is a little different from The Netherlands and we don not have a lot of money, so you can not change everything in one day...
It takes a lot of work, attention and patience. But we can do it, just do it and enjoy your life in nature every day 😍

Overgrown borders

Old days earth cellar

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About me

Hello, so nice you are visiting my blog. I'm Brun Arntz. Since 2016 I'm living on the countryside in Småland Sweden. I'm working on a lot of creative projects. My biggest project is my dream was to create a big garden, with a nice natural design filled with self grown flowers with my green fingers. As you can reed in my blog, I'm still working on this project now. It makes my happy to live so close to nature, to go with the flow. It brings me a lot of balance in my life. Another project is to be creative with natural materials to make home and garden decorations. For Christmas, Wintertime, Eastern, Spring or just a normal day. That gives me a lot of spirit! Or in wintertime I try to renew old stuff. It is easy to scoren some old furniture in a famous Swedish loppis (Secondhand). Of course with nice colors in the Scandinavian style, light, simply and natural. Specially green, of course... Now I'm dreaming to have a typical Swedish Trädgårdscafe where people can have Swedish Fikatime (time for having coffee and cakes) with a lot of places to sit somewhere in a very nice garden. But the Coronavirus disturbed my planning....but maybe next spring? Great that you want to follow some my projects. I hope it will give you good spirit and inspiration too. Greetings from Brün

My garden

Once upon a time there was a very nice garden around Stegaryd Sjöbygget Gamla Skola. After the school was closed in the 50's the new owner started creating a garden around the place. The place was well known in the surroundings to be full of flowers and the lady was always working in the garden (a little bit like me now, just because I like it so much). When she got too old the house was sold as a summerhouse, the garden was not longer taken care of. When we came, in 2016, we started to clean up and recover what once was there. Because gardening, designing, creating and growing plants is my passion and love. The goal is to create a natural garden with grandma's plants and some prairiegarden influences. After 5 years, we are not ready yet but a lot of heavy work is done now. It's starting to be a nice garden again. Judge it yourself on my weblog.