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? 

September feelings Sweden

Dew in the morning, over the land and the lake, delivering beautiful atmosphere. Mostly the sun can come through and it will be a beautiful day like in summer, some times not and it will stay foggy. Late flowers, all sorts of red berries, orange cantharel -if your are lucky- and leafs starting to color).  Typical moods of september in Småland Sweden. Last weeks we had beautiful sunny summer days.  When I can trust the forecast (not sure about it) it will be more like that next weeks, but no Indian Summer (Brittsommar) like we had once. 

It's very nice weather now to be outside. To work, to paint, work in the garden and have coffee sometimes. Only in the early morning and late afternoon it will be more cold soon. But it will take another six weeks before frost, at least. But you never know, so lets hope so. I need some jobs to be done before. I'm already busy with some of the september garden jobs this year: 

• This is the perfect time to devide plants. It very humid in the air and it's easy to increase your number of plants, some also need a change of place. Most easy is to take them out and split them.
• I've been pruning the black current plants . Taking out the old branches so there's air and space for new ones to grow now. On time to make a lot of new flowers and berries in spring. 
• I got some sawing advice, some plant sorts you can already saw in autumn. They can manage the winter they said. They need even the winter cold to germinate and will be more early next year. I bought some special sorts, like dark foxglove and pimpernel perennials. It need to be done this week. 
• End of September I'm expecting some new bulbs for spring, ordered with Goteborg Botaniska. 
• Make some new autumn decorations around the house, to have a nice look again. 

• Prepare "växtloppis" plants (plants to sell) for winter. Give dem extra space to grow in containers. Make some new cutting of Sedum for next year. 
• Fatten, cover or prune other plants. Take away the annuals. 
• Make changes in the robot lines if needed (I have extended the robot mowing surface, so less cutting for me) and repair some defects. 

• Last weeding all around the garden (quit a lot high weeds I can tell you 🙈)
• Hopefully I can fix the gravel path too before my hands are getting to could. We had more rain then last years, so the weeds have been growing faster as I could keep away the weeds. I'm very sad it's getting more and more green. 
• One of the last gras cuttings. Maybe one or two more times. As long as temperatures are above 7 degrees it will keep growing. Keep in mind that the last cuttings must not too short to give the gras strength and cover for the winter. 

Both last three ones keep me busy at least 3 days a week. So I decided the garden is big enough now. We have been cultivating wild parts in the back extra (within the 2500 square meters) this year because we had more sun, plans and plants. Of course it takes more time to maintain, but now it is enough to manage, so I need to make it more smart and easy now.