Sofias Country Gardens
April weather
After the gorgeous weather we have had it has turned miserably cold again, with many mornings too cold even for me to venture outside...
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Sofias Country Gardens
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Spring projects
And suddenly it is here. Spring! The weather turned warm and dry, and finally the ground has thawed and become soft and workable again....
Sofias Country Gardens
- Apr 4, 2021
- 2 min
Happy Easter
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Mar 20, 2021
- 3 min
Spring equinox
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...
Sofias Country Gardens
- Feb 5, 2021
- 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....
Sofias Country Gardens
- Jan 15, 2021
- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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