Sjöbygget (by Arntz Creations): Botanical impressions from Göteborg

Tuesday 28 September 2021

Botanical impressions from Göteborg

Lately I walked around in the Trädgårdsförening in Göteborg again. Mostly just for a walk through, sometimes to take a better look. It's always a beautiful place to be. There is always something to see, they make so nice flower beds, every time of year and they started some prairie style gardening. This time of the year a lot of roses where still flowering, they didn't plant the bulbs yet (will come soon). In the middle of all you will find the beautiful Victorian Greenhouses. I read it was started as a park in 1842 for the people who were living inside the City walls, for trading plants en seeds, to recreate and relax. Goteborg City is still the owner of the park. It is funny to see all the inhabitants see the worth and still spent a lot of time to recreate in this gardens, during lunchtime, weekends and music festivals.

This time I had enough time to visit the real Botanical Gardens (little more south). This is one of the biggest botanical gardens in Europe, around 175 ha total (including a nature reserve and arboretum). So you can walk out of the city into the nature within half an hour. Only 40 ha is cultivated and includes very rare varieties. You will find a herb part, a tree collection, a formel garden, big greenhouses with exotic palmtrees and special bulbs. It was founded in 1923 for research, development, conservatory and education. A big area where you can make a big (you can walk via the backdoor in nature to Mölndal), a small walk (just make a round in the gardens) or have a coffee and something to eat outside with a beautiful view. You can take a look yourself, I made some pictures of the Botanical Garden. They are building new greenhouses I saw this time.

It's always nice to walk around there, in the middle of the city in an oase of flowers and fresh greens. It always gives my new inspiration and energy. But it's also a very nice feeling to go back to my own garden and enjoy the flowers. Like you can see, down here. The lime Annabelles are still there, accompanied by the Little Sedum "Pure Joy".

Most successful try out this year: Blomstermorot

Do you like to see more? About the Botanical in Göteborg? Take a look here. About Trädgårdsförening
or The Botanical Göteborg? Gardenista?

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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.