Closed for the season

 

The season to visit the garden is finished now, no more opening times this year. Time to get out all the sunscreens and furniture and start preparing the garden for winter. I'm happy a lot of flowers are still showing their best, even when heavy rains are falling down. But you can imagine they would be more beautiful in the sun without storm and rain. 

The annuals who totally broke down...

This week it was suddenly very stormy at night, with heavy windcasts. Totally unexpected. Many flowers were broken brutally and some plants got a severe damage. The tomatoes started rotting after all this rain and the round we made out of annuals was totally destroyed. That's why we already started cleaning up all stuff. So we have been busy already when it's dry outside. And what about the gras, it is growing soooo fast 😲... It feels like I can keep on going cutting the gras. When I'm finished at one side I can start at the other side.....

Never the less we hope to see you back next year. There will be Tusenträdgården (a thousand open garden event in Sweden) again (beginning of July), of course the Land Open garden (half of July) and the Lingonställen Västra Småland (beginning of June and September). 

For now we like to thank you for your interest and visits this season. I hope you will keep following our garden adventures on the countryside, even in wintertime. It can be fun too 😊.

PS: Beside of that, I've got new information about the lady who lived here for a long time. She was really very special. I will tell about her later (when my gardenjobs are done). See you back soon!

Extra open garden 9 & 10th of September 2023

 

Suddenly some short summer again 😎, not as warm as The Netherlands of course....but at least the sun is shining and we see some blue skies again. Today we reached even 27 degrees. Very nice, because  soon it's Christmas again 😂.

So we decided to open up the garden again for this weekend. The garden is still in good shape and showing late summer flowers and the waterlevel went down a little again (enough to make walking around possible without wet feet). I've been baking today to have some fresh cakes with special tastes to serve tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to meet you soon 😊

Brün

PS: Take your chance to visit the garden now, it's the last opening this summer season. 

Lingonrundan skördetid (Harvest Time)

More info about Lingonrundan Harvest Time

 We are open Saturday and Sunday (10-15). 

Dry weather? Open garden 26 & 27th of August (öppen trädgård)

 

Come and have a look at our garden now, when the weather is good. So without any rain. It still feels like autumn. It's getting normal for weeks now to be in a low pressure area where it's raining all day for more days. 

It has been growing so much (because of all the rain 🙈), it's unbelievable. The good thing is that our grass is looking green again. At some places it's too much. So we have some damms on places where we never had one. Some plants had difficult years before because of the dryness, but are flowering fantastic now. And guess what, I never scored sooo much Cantharelles as this year (on a very secret place of course. Or blueberries and wild raspberries, plenty of them. Good news when you like them, like me.

But at the other side: now I can't stop weeding and cutting the grass on the moments when it's dry, when I'm ready in the back I can start in the front again. So hard times when you travel sometimes...

On the former empty fireplace we have been planting Lathyrus, Hollyhock (Stokrozen or Stockrosor)  and Tobacco plants between the Sweet Williams (Duizendschoon or Borstnejlikor) this spring (you can see it in the July post). Now the plants grow more then 2 meter high.... The Sweet Williams started flowering, later the Lathyrus started followed by the Tobacco. The final is these weeks for the Hollyhocks. 

Blomstermorot

We should like to welcome your and show your around. So you can see the results of hard working yourself. We like to meet you in our garden, while you enjoy an outdoor fika (coffee and a homemade cake). 

Don't you have the opportunity to visit us this weekend? Or maybe it's too bad weather? No worries, we will be open next weekend too!

Holiday time

 

Semestertid.... I just picked the black current for today, only lots of blue berries left in the forest. 

We take it easy right now... But the växtloppis will be open all the time, maybe you will hit something special when you are driving by anyway 😎. Enjoy your holiday!

Land öppen trädgård / Open garden

 

Javisst, vi ska bli med igen 😊...

You are very welcome to visit us outside of Vittaryd (also on Saturday 15 July 2023 by the way or the weekend before 😏). Just to walk around in the garden, enjoy the view on the lake or have a typical Swedish Fika på landet. 

You will find us at Sjöbygget 1, Vittaryd. (From Vittaryd church towards Skällandsö/Bolmen. After about 4 km the first red house at your left side (just after you see Flyxen lake). I'm looking forward to meet you,

With regards

Brün Arntz

Open garden 17 & 18 June 2023 (but Midsommarweekend closed)

 

It is still wonderfull in the garden. Allthough it have been very warm dry weeks. Now it's not longer allowed to water the garden and there is a firestop as well (so no BBQ and open fire anymore because of the firerisk). That means the grass has turned dry and yellow. The plants in pots survived till now because will have been carrying lot of watercans, even in the plantmarket at the streetside. It's a dilemma too, I want to be carefully with water too. But when all plants die I can close the garden for this year...

The lovely Finnlandrose -you see above- is already finished. A little quicker as normal, because of the heat. But now the peonia's started flowering, it's parfum is very strong and impressive. And what about the Papaver "Pattys Plum". All around the daisies (alias "prästkragor") are flowering, like they used to around Midsommar. It's unbelievable we reached the longest day again. But before I start thinking about Christmas I want to enjoy the summertime even the days will get shorter and darker.

Till now it looks like we managed to keep the hare out, at least not all the plants are eaten like last year. We are happy for that because we spent a lot of time to make chicken wire around the total garden twice ((the first round seemed to be not high enough or the hare learned how to jump 😜). 

Next weekend, the Midsommarweekend we will be closed for celebrating ourselves. We wish you a very happy Midsommar!

 

Växtloppis always open

By the way... the växtloppis is always open 😉

Outside our garden we have a växtloppis (plantmarket) where you can find seedlings and cutting for sale which I have been growing last months. You are welcome to take a look even when the garden is not opened. 

Outside our garden we have a växtloppis (plantmarket) where you can find seedlings and cutting for sale which I have been growing last months. We have some annuals like Cosmea, Verbena and Tobaccoplants. But also Salvia (lila), Big Campanula's, Jacobsladder, Goatbeard, etc. Every week I will have some new stuff. 

You are always welcome to take a look even when the garden is not opened. 

Open Garden Times

Next weeks in June, July & August we will have open garden nearly every weekend (on Saturday & Sunday from 11-16 o'clock). Of course it's depending on the weather too, because we only have outdoor places. So when we have time and the weather is good, we can open extra. But with very hot or rainy cold weather it's not making sense to open.
 

Outside the garden you will find a small plant garden with some seedlings and plant cutting I have been growing last weeks. I'm very proud to show my garden to people. I'm trying to make it look like former days with grandma's plants, like the Midsommar Rose or the Hungarian Iris. So feel free to walk around or just enjoy the surroundings form a comfortabel seat in the middel of the garden, close to the lake. We also serve some small coffee & cakes. 

Please follow the actual announcements the week before on this weblog, (Facebook) or Instagram (Sjobygget_Tradgard). Feel free to visit our private garden in one of these weekends. We are very happy to meet you 😉. 

Time for Lingonrunda 3 & 4 juni 2023

 

Soon it's time for Lingonrunda again. You are welcome on a lot of places (Lingonställen) in the Western part of Småland. It's a network with more then 100 places to visit. Among them are musea, shops, farmshops, arts & handcrafting, flowers, vegetables and design. Mostly small companies or enthousiasts with a hobby. The products are produced in the neighborhood. There is something to find for every one!

Sjöbygget Tradgården will join this event in June too!

Have a look on the website: www.lingonrundan.com. Some have opened the year around, some only in Summer but most of them open at the special event day. You will recognize them with a special flag.