Sjöbygget (by Arntz Creations): April 2018

Thursday 12 April 2018

Blåsippa

Javisst, det är vår igen… Jag må gå ut strax. Det finns redan blomster, Snödropper växer redan in snön och Crocus blommar vid förste solstrålen. Vad härlig att se färger igen. Men jag såg också en special växt. Vilken fin blomster, jag har hittat en Blåsippa (Anemone hepatica syn. Hepatica nobilis), eller "blåviringen" i min trädgården. Den finns i södra och mellersta Skandinavien och i södra Finland. Och hos mig, i Småland. Den växer på torr skogsmark, mest i lövskogar och i granblandskogar. På dessa växtplatser visar sig inga blommor så tidigt på våren som blåsippan. Redan under snösmältningen börjar den öppna sina varmt mörkblå (någon gång violettröda, sällan vita) kalkar. Och det stämmer, det var bara några solstrålen i min trädgården och den har börjat blomma.

Sunday 1 April 2018

Glad Påsk från Småland / Happy Easter from Småland

Today I decorated my home with some Easter branches. It is really looking good! They think that habit is from the bibles history. When Jesus came into Jerusalem they strew palm leafs on the roads and the people had palm leafs in their hands. In Sweden they take in Birch or Willow branches and they decorate them with eggs and feathers.
Today Easter in Sweden is a mix form old and new, popular belief and religion. But in the first it is spring celebration day with family and friends. Every one has holiday, travels a lot and have a good meal together.
Easter Eve is the most important day with Easter, just like Christmas Eve. The celebrating is interwoven med big Easter eggs filled with sweeties and Easter food with a lot off eggs. I wish you a Happy Easter!

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Idag pyntade jag mitt huset med Påskris. Det ser jättefint ut! Man tror att Påskris kommer från Jesu intåg i Jerusalem då man strödde palmkvistar på vägen och hade palmkvistar i händerna. I Sverige tar vi in björkris eller sälg och dekorerar riset med ägg och fjäder.

Idag är Påsken i Sverige en blandning av gammalt och nytt, av folktro och religion. Men framförallt är påsken en vår högtid man firar med familj eller vänner. Då vi är lediga från jobbet, reser mycket och äter gott.

Att Påskafton i Sverige kommit att bli den stora ”firardagen” under Påsken kan troligen ses som en parallell till Julafton. Påskafton förknippas i Sverige ofta med Påskägg fyllt med godis och Påskmat med ägg. Jag önskar er en glad Påsk!

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.