Friday Bliss #205 - Barcelona Inspired Bohemian Garden

Open Gardens, August 7:

Marjo’s wild and colourful, creative and playful garden was awarded in 2018 at Open Gardens. 

In 15 years Marjo has transformed this 1000 m2 plot into a unique garden with pergola, 

greenhouse, outdoor kitchen, mosaic works, mirror wall, and many other creative solutions. 

Even her two poodles have a lovely & colourful garden house!

Marjo seems to love blue and tourquoise. In addition there was an outdoor exhibition of

her Barcelona based friend, painter Maija Tuurna.

Marjo’s bohemian style is not for everybody, but I enjoyed what I saw.

Especially I liked the mosaics, could also try myself as I have a lot of spare tiles.

The Gaudí bench was gorgeous - made by Marjo!

The creature on the right is part of an outdoor grill.

There were two old iron beds in the garden & chandeliers, lanterns & statues.

Maija’s naivistic & colourful paintings.

The tile work of the outdoor kitchen was creative.

Probably this red princess sofa was put out only for the theme day…

Mosaics on an ordinary big stone block.

A heart-shaped small table with mosaic.

Garden fairy.

The dogs’ garden house was open & cosy.

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Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

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Friday Bliss #204 - Open Gardens, August 7

Puutarhaliitto / Garden Association is the central organization of the Finnish horticulture. Among other things Puutarhaliitto arranges yearly a nationwide theme day Open Gardens, where home gardeners can open their garden gates for visitors. No entrance fees. The theme day has been arranged since 2012 and yearly about 500 gardens participate. Annual visitors mount to 50,000. 

Last Sunday I visited two gardens and got many ideas & inspiration. That is why I have been out in the garden many hours every day. Both computer and ipad were shut and I have not been online at all. I’ll visit your links as soon as possible!

The first garden I visited was my friend Kati’s garden. They have a beautiful wooden house, 

over 100 years old and a BIG garden. Kati collects plants and perennials and 

I can’t even guess the amount of species she has. 

Photo: Kati

Iron metal gazebo radiated the charm of times gone by.

Photo: Kati

She has grown these wonderful lavenders - Lavandula spica - from seed.

Tomatoes were ripening in the greenhouse and I liked very much

this self made birth bath.

Kati's husband is very handy and I loved these stairs made by him!

I did not have chance to ask what lies behind this granite torso...

The spikes of Veronica longifolia ’Charlotte’ look amazing.

Photo: Kati

There were many sanded, curved paths through the garden.

Here beside the house with Astrantia major, hosta, ferns and heuchera.

I’ll present the other garden - inspired by Barcelona and Gaudí -

in a later post. Hope you got inspired as well!

Thank you so much for your links and comments!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

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