Category: Gardening and Permaculture

Autumn look, gifts from the garden and blissfull October!

Everyone loves atumn, and so do I! Sometimes I wish I could just bask around in autumn for an unlimited time. Alas, autumn in Norway usually last for just a few weeks, if you count from when the colors are showing and until most of the leaves have fallen. Sometimes it will be raining during …

Garden nights, fairylights and campfires

Happy Midsummer everyone! I hope you are having happy and bright days. Here spring has turned into summer, I use to think of the summer solstice as the gateway to summer, it is still often quite chill here in Norway in late June, but everything is green and beautiful and flowers are blooming everywhere. This …

DIY: How to make a curved garden bridge

Summer is finally upon us, and it is time to enjoy the garden and all its wonders! Don’t you all just want curved garden bridges? In my garden I have a big stream and a small stream. I just really wanted some bridges, and when my dad came visiting we decided to just go through …

Good days in the summer garden

I get more fond of our garden every year! It is such a diverse and magical place. Every summer it get covered in huge magical ferns and it all is so very green. My garden is huge and turns into a managed woodland, where I’ve made many paths, which I love to decorate with lanterns, …

Lady of the Wood Anemones

My first nickname when I got the internet were “Hvitveispiken”, which translates to “Lady of the Wood Anemones”. This white and star shaped flower grace the forest floor all over Norway and many northern parts of the world every spring, with thick carpets of white as far as the eye can see. For every year …

En inspirerende permakulturhage

Fikk lyst til å vise dere den nydelige og spennende permakulturhagen til et vennepar som bor på andre siden av fjorden. De heter Eva og Martin, og de lever der sammen med sønnen Nathaniel, 2 hunder, katter og en flokk med høner og ender. Vi har besøkt dem ganske ofte, og det er alltid like …

Friends visiting my summer garden

I live kind of far away from everyone and everything, so having friends coming over is quite a welcome change in my otherwise reclusive life. This time to of my childhood friends came over for the weekend, and we had a great time. We all have a passion for cooking healthy food, so that’s one …

Glorious garden days

It is not often it happens, but sometimes, summer feels just right! Life in the deep fjords of western Norway is lush, green and mild, but it comes at a price. We do have quite a lot of rain, and sometimes wind. Sometimes it rains constantly for weeks, but usually the weather is rather diverse, …

Happy summer solstice

Hope you are all doing well this midsummer! Here in Norway, we have long traditions of lighting huge bonfires one of these nights. You can often find them all through the fjords and down by lakes, where people gather together and have a great time. We often have our own private campfire in the garden. …