Loppis Rally Vittaryd Sweden

Today there is a loppis rally in our village and around. It is a loppis (second hand selling which is very popular in Sweden) from your own property. I like this idea very much so I decided to join. There are about 20 people sellers in and around Vittaryd Småland Sweden. We had about 60 visitors and even sold some things in a great atmosphere. Let's see it as a start..

Do you want to see some pictures? Do you like it? Hope to see you next year 👀

So I put some vintage laundry outside...

Made a shelter, in cse of some rain...

Put my vintage stuff on some tables

And tried to sell old tools (which I found in my barn when moving in)

Nice picture or? A typical Smalands view...  

Wild flower bouquet

I just picked it in the garden. What a nice colors, just growing naturally beside of my garden in the middel of Småland. What a luxury!

DIY Very tasteful black current syrup

You have to try this one...black current syrup in 20 minutes!

In our garden we have 5 black current bushes. We think they are all ready very old but they still give a lot of berries. This year even more as last year, about 8 liters. Last year we pruned them a little, we took they old branches out, to make them some younger. You really could see that because the berries were some bigger, despite of the very dry summer.

We make black current syrup of them. You can find the recipe below. Really tasty as a drink with some cold water or as a syrup in a yogurt. Last year we put some berries on brandy, but the taste was a little to strong for us. But we added some syrup and then you get really nice black current liquor. You need to drink it soon, otherwise the sugar will be converted to alcohol again. Skål!

Making of...

Black Currant Syrup

Black Currant Liquor

Recipe Black Current Syrup
1 liter black current berries
4 dl sugar
9 dl water

Just cook the berries with water and sugar for 15 min maximum. Take them out through a sieve (several times till you do not find to much pulp anymore), throw the pulp away en put the syrup in a bottle as hot as possible. Close the bottle, turn it upside down and you can save it for at least some months.

Summer heat in Sweden

It's really very very very warm in Sweden. It has been over 30 degrees for a lot of days.
We started to have siesta some days ago because it is too warm to do anything. Only in early morning or evening time you can do some things...



But also a lot of people had no water left in their waterwell. They had to take a bad in the lake, get some water from the lake to flush the toilet and buy water to drink and cook.
The level of the water dropped down about a meter below normal level.

Most severe were the fires in the forests all over Sweden. Some days it were 80 at the same time. That's quit serious when you know that most of the people are living in wooden houses. Sweden was very happy we got much help from other countries in Europe.
It was not longer allowed to make open fires anywhere r have a grill in your own garden, not even electric or on gas. You would get a big penalty! We were very happy nothing serious happened in our neighborhood.

DIY My first selve made Greenery in Sweden

This is the first year I started sawing seeds inside early March. Maybe a little too early because the snow left late, beginning of April. But despite of that, with some help of me, a lot of them managed to get outside. Some carrots, rocketsalat, basil, onions and some flowers. Now they have to grow in the kitchen garden. We started to make one in the back of the garden. Because of the deer we need to fence it. I really hope they will succeed. Keep my fingers crossed.

DIY Elderflowersyrup

Yes, we made it ourselves... and it is very easy going. It is very nice when you are thirsty on a hot summer day.

You need:

• 10-20 elderflower blossom (pick them in June on a dry day)
• 1 lemon
• 600 gr sugar
• vanille essence
• 6 dl water

Even more flowers wil make it more tasty. You need the sugar to keep it over longer, you can use less when you drink it soon (in 1-3 days).

How to fix:

• Clean the lemon, make slices. Put it with the flowers in a big pan or small but clean hink.
• Cook the water with the sugar till the sugar has disappeared. Put in just a little vanilla essence.
• Put all together with the flowers and cover it.
• Leave it for 3-4 days in normal room temperature.
• Take of all the flowers with a sief and put the syrup in clean cooked bottles.

You can even make summerpunch out of it, just put in some white wine and soda just before drinking. Cheers!

A queen page in my garden

I have never seen this butterfly before, a Queen page. I heard about it, it's not often seen. Today it landed on a flower in my garden. What a natural beauty! I found out you can see it in Sweden when you are lucky....

My Lovely Garden life

What a nice weather, what a nice spring, what an energy. A lot of things to do, but what a fun. Everything is growing, flowering and celebrating live. Like me, this is what I dreamed about 😍
Even I had to kil a mole because it was destroying my lawn...

mole

Stockholm Drottningholm Palace

Drottningholm Royal Palace Garden

Just a gift in the Palace Garden

Another gift

Just a house in the neighborhood

Lake vue

What should you do when it is a very hot day and you have to go (for business) to Stockholm. Of course, just make a combination if possible. Just go out of the city center (too hot) and travel to Drottningholm. Just enjoy the views and the fresh water....

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