Sjöbygget (by Arntz Creations): Impressions of Tusen Trädgårdar Open Gardens in Sweden

Monday 29 June 2020

Impressions of Tusen Trädgårdar Open Gardens in Sweden

What an inspiring day to meet a lot of people who love gardening, taking care of plants, do know a lot about plants or have briljant ideas about design or just enjoy the colors or the place. It made our day!

We didn't know what to expect for this day. Nobody knows the place, maybe they have seen us working every day? We are not really in a busy garden area... But we found out some people visited the place because of garden interest, they are driving often this road, or family went to school in this building. So yes, we got visitors nicely spread all over the day, very Corona proof😊

Finlandsrosa, you should smell it, it's lovely

This place really has a history. It's an old building, a former school (Read more about living in an old school in Sweden), there are art sculpture, nice old plants in a beautiful area. I like to tell about it or to find out more. The concept with some history, some art sculptures and grandma's plants (mormors växter på svenska) feels as a natural connection to this place which people are interested in.

We were happy to meet a lot of nice people and the good weather stayed (at least nearly till the end). It gave a lot of spirit, ideas and energy to go further on this road...

Thanks 😄

Mormorsväxt Gullviva (Primula)

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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.