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    Sofias Country Gardens

    Cottage Gardens in south of Finland

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    Bean Blauhilde
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Feb 5
    • 3 min

    Bean Blauhilde

    As I love trying out new varieties there are few vegetables that I grow time and again, yet bean Blauhilde is one of the rare exceptions....
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    A white January
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jan 15
    • 3 min

    A white January

    Sometimes January can feel like the longest month, as it tends to be a quiet time of balancing out the excesses of the Christmas and New ...
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    Late autumn garden
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Nov 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    Late autumn garden

    These last few weeks I have been enjoying the abundant colours of the autumn leaves and the daylight hours slowly receding. Life in the s...
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    Sunny October days
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Oct 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Sunny October days

    The weather seems to become more unpredictable by year, but sometimes it works to the better. October has so far been unseasonably sunny ...
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    Autumn tasks: renovating flower borders
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Oct 3, 2020
    • 3 min

    Autumn tasks: renovating flower borders

    I have two lovely yet often much neglected old flower borders at Stensund. They were in fact the first two borders I ever dug there, way ...
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    Autumn in the woodland garden
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Sep 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    Autumn in the woodland garden

    You wouldn't believe the joy of having a sunny autumn week after so much rain! Few things are as pleasurable as the high skies of sunny a...
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    Late summer blooms
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Aug 9, 2020
    • 2 min

    Late summer blooms

    In many ways August is my favourite month. By now the summer guests have gone home and a peaceful quietness has settled in the countrysid...
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    It's all white
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jul 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    It's all white

    Although I mostly think that when it comes to gardening more is more, there is one place where I have opted for a restrictive palette - t...
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    Humlegård in bloom
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jul 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Humlegård in bloom

    This week I got the loveliest of presents. I'm guessing only gardeners will understand how much I appreciate it, but my friend Malins mum...
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    Jubilant July
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jul 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    Jubilant July

    The last weeks have been gloriously warm and sunny, and suddenly my garden is in full bloom. Everywhere you look flowers are bursting out...
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    Portvakten in June
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jun 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    Portvakten in June

    In June there are so many lovely flowers out that when I made the large English herbaceous border at Portvakten (the Gatekeepers Cottage)...
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    June is the loveliest month
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jun 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    June is the loveliest month

    Finally June is here. It is the loveliest month of the year, when finally the trees are dressed in their summer finery and the flowers st...
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    Pink and green harmony
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • May 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    Pink and green harmony

    As May comes to an end, the garden has turned lush and green. I'm so pleased at how the Double Late Foxtrot pink tulips I planted in autu...
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    Maybe May weather
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • May 23, 2020
    • 2 min

    Maybe May weather

    There is a joke going around in memes at the moment, about May being called May because it may be sunny, it may be raining, there may be ...
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    Spring mulch with sawdust
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • May 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    Spring mulch with sawdust

    Last week my kind neighbour gave me a lovely surprise when he gifted me a whole wagon load of sawdust. For someone who values handbags an...
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    Using newspapers as weed supressant
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Apr 18, 2020
    • 4 min

    Using newspapers as weed supressant

    As any gardener will know, keeping weeds at bay is perhaps one of the most challenging tasks we face in keeping decorative flower borders...
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    10 decorative ideas for the garden
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Apr 3, 2020
    • 2 min

    10 decorative ideas for the garden

    Winter is the perfect time for planning and dreaming about the garden as very little can be done outside. I am an old romantic and I real...
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    How to start a vegetable garden
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    How to start a vegetable garden

    Starting a vegetable garden may seem like a difficult project, while in fact it is quite simple and a lot of fun. As I'm often asked by f...
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    Crop rotation
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Feb 14, 2020
    • 5 min

    Crop rotation

    One of the key practices in organic gardening is the use of crop rotation, where no crops are grown in the same place in consecutive year...
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    Hopi blue sweetcorn
    Sofias Country Gardens
    • Jan 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    Hopi blue sweetcorn

    If there is one thing I really love, it is to try out growing new and colourful vegetable varieties. This always happens with sweetcorn w...
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