Sjöbygget (by Arntz Creations): After work start garden dreams

Tuesday 15 May 2018

After work start garden dreams

Smelly roses, a rhododendron full of purple flowers, lupine in all colors...
I found i very old Iris and it is still flowering beautiful, though it had to go to the nursery for some time. It is really an old fashioned flower, like many grandmothers had some time ago.

Finally we can enjoy all the work we did in the years before. It was a lot of work to make it a garden again. It took almost two years to take away all the weeds and make borders again. But now you can more and more see results. And now it's time for the nice work, planning and planting in a nice way. The dream is to create a Piet Oudolf Garden, a garden in a natural way with grasses and flowers being beautiful whole the year. Even in winter because of a nice silhouet.

But it will still be a puzzle, because it is very poor forest soil, which contains to much acid for a lot of plants. But we will find out, time to experience...

Old fashioned Iris

Clematis

Botanical Roses

Rhododendron

Iris Siberica

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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.