Showing posts with label Lövstabruk Castle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lövstabruk Castle. Show all posts

Nov 21, 2013

Pre Winter Blues in my garden

Not much happen in my garden now when it prepares for the Swedish cold winter, but yesterday we had frost, and that always bring a certain beauty to the darkness :D

My Snowberry bushes bring some light to the darkness
Just now is the water in the stream pretty high by my footbridge, but are regulated further down in the dam's around the Lövstabruk Manor, wonder how it's in the spring when the melting snow can bring a LOT of water.
My new Hollyhock are green wich is promising since I live a little bit high up in the country for these to thrive
The wonderful colour of the Heuchera "Palace Purlpe" bring a certain beauty to the covering Maple leafs
The Deer tounge Fern sticking out
The Japanese Mahonia Fern seems to thrive as well while waiting for the snow
My Rose "Else Krohn" staying green against the warming rock wall
A sign that the fall have been a little bit to warm, and that I layed down the protecting Spruce twigs to early, the "New Dawn" rose growing, and it shouldn''t, the show is here soon and it will probably freeze.

And so the FROST came yesterday, beautiful :D
Beauty by the stream
The Echinacea/Rudbeckia still standing
The Maple leafs that cover all the new flowerbeds makes them look like natural art in the frost
The Japanese Mahonia Fern
Echinacea/Rudbeckia


Certainly another time of beauty before the snow will cover everything
Enjoy, I do! Per!



Oct 6, 2013

New Garden: Leufsta 3 South

Welcome to follow me in the creation of a new garden!

My name is Per & the other day I moved in to a rental property in the old (16th century) village of Lövstabruk in Uppland, Sweden!

The village is a traditional iron industry village with the usual manor, church, school, office and park in the centre, this one once owned by the de Geer Family, now by the Swedish government and the manor is run by a Foundation since 1986 members being Tierp County, Uppsala Landsting, Uppsala University and de Geer Family

All these villages and manors by the Baltic coast where burned down by Russians in 3 summers of 1719-21, Lövstabruk was burned down 1719.
The owner De Geer decided to re-build the village and thereafter a new castle, my house whyere built approx 1730's.

When I moved in to my pairhouse with a two storey barn this Thursday, did I start to discover the garden, pretty large, but absolutely nothing where done to it, or overgrown.
So if You wish, follow me on my journey!

Welcome, Per!

My house with the belonging stream on the other side of the road