Sofias Country Gardens

And so autumn is upon us. Cool nights combined with dry and sunny days makes for exceptional autumn colours and this year we have had an absolute explosion of colours! The intenseness takes my breath away regardless of weather. During sunny days I run out to take pictures, and during the gray cloudy ones I walk through the forests hunting mushrooms and delighting in the scenery. It only lasts a short few weeks, this intensity, before the leaves drop to the ground and the bran

Some years ago a friend of mine gave me Little Gem squash seeds to try out, and much to my delight they were beautiful so two years in a row I grew a jungle of them. Then, as I could't find these beauties in the shop, I tried out some other varieties. But come this spring as I was tidying out my seed drawer I happened to find a left over packet and decided to see if there still was life in the seeds. We all do that, don't we, forget leftover seeds and find them years later wh

And poof - a month has gone by without me really noticing it. Does that ever happen to you, that time makes a quantum leap and just...

My farm is located deep in the countryside, surrounded by woods, fields and water, so it is quite obvious that I should use the...

Midsummer... what a lovely time of year! It is the time of peonies, geraniums and foxgloves and to my utter delight they still fill up...

I have come to realise that there is a strong correlation with me being bored and the appearance of new borders in my garden. Boredom is...

As we turn into June something magical happens. Nature goes WOOOSH and bursts into life, with the grass turning a deep emerald green and...

The joy when all of the sudden the season turns into summer! In one week the trees go from having bare branches to leaves bursting out,...

All of the sudden the weather turns, and a heat wave hits us much in the same spirit as all of the sudden the world around us wakes up...

After the gorgeous weather we have had it has turned miserably cold again, with many mornings too cold even for me to venture outside...

And suddenly it is here. Spring! The weather turned warm and dry, and finally the ground has thawed and become soft and workable again....

I think Easter is my favourite holiday. I know I always say it about any bank holiday that comes up, but Easter really is lovely. It is a...

All of the sudden spring equinox is upon us, and with it the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Today on the 20th of March...

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....

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...

These last few weeks I have been enjoying the abundant colours of the autumn leaves and the daylight hours slowly receding. Life in the...

The weather seems to become more unpredictable by year, but sometimes it works to the better. October has so far been unseasonably sunny...

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...

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...

In many ways August is my favourite month. By now the summer guests have gone home and a peaceful quietness has settled in the...