Winter at the Botanical Garden Linz

Nothing in nature blooms all year long. This quote always comes to my mind whenever I look around outside in nature during the cold months. The nice thing is, there is no need to long for 365 days of colorful flowers, blooming perennials or green lawns. A garden, for example, when properly landscaped, is beautiful […]

Winter im Botanischen Garten Linz

Nothing in nature blooms all year long. Dieses Zitat kommt mir immer in den Sinn sobald ich mich in den kalten Monaten draußen in der Natur umsehe. Das schöne ist, es ist gar nicht nötig sich nach 365 Tagen voll bunter Blumen, blühenden Sträuchern oder grünen Wiesen zu sehnen. Ein Garten zum Beispiel, ist wenn […]

Bringing spring inside

Ok, ich gebe zu am 3. Jänner vom Frühling zu sprechen ist durchaus eine Spur voreilig und ich mache mir keine Illusionen dass nicht noch ein großer Wintereinbruch kommt, aber hey, wenn Gartencenter ab Dezember Frühlingsblumen verkaufen können, kann ich sie mir auch ohne schlechtes Gewissen ins Haus holen.  Die ersten Frühlingsblumen die jedes Jahr […]

Christmas flower show – Stiftsgärtnerei St. Florian

Merry Christmas!! On the 23rd of December you can definitely start wishing that! The laptops are powered down, all the to do’s are done at the last minute and slowly but surely the anticipation of Christmas is setting in, isn’t it? In this spirit, I would like to dedicate the last post of the year […]

Weihnachtsblumenschau Stiftsgärtnerei St. Florian

Merry Christmas!! Am 23. Dezember kann man das schon mal wünschen! Die PC’s sind heruntergefahren, alle to do’s auf den letzten Drücker noch erledigt und langsam, aber sicher stellt sich die Vorfreude auf Weihnachten so richtig ein, oder? In diesem Sinne möchte ich den letzten Post des Jahres – und gleichzeitig den allerersten Post den […]

Autumn Impressions from the cottage garden

Summer is slowely but surely coming to a close. Those warm sunny mornings are turning more and more in gloomy and grey days. However all those summer flowers and shrubs that we’ve planted, cultivated and cared for over the last few months provide us with more than enough pops of color to raise our moods. […]

MOSAIC Home Fragrances

It’s funny, I’m an extremely seasonal person. As soon as it’s spring/summer I can’t stand being indoors anymore and I want to spend all my time outside in the garden. However, once it’s late summer and the days are slowly getting shorter, I’m one of the first to start making tea and lighting candles. I […]

DIY Garden Flower arrangement

How do you actually make flower arrangements? The question I ask myself pretty much since the time when I started to increasingly explore the topic of gardening, flowers, nature, etc. on Instagram (and generally IRL too). Mixed into to the most beautiful images of bouquets and cottage gardens that appeared again and again in my […]

DIY Hanging Fall planter

I must confess, when I think of „hanging baskets“, the first thing that comes to mind are those awful, knotted macramé/pot constructions that were found in almost every apartment in the late 80s. Granted I was quite young in the late 80’s but these things were so awful (in my opinion) that they were literally […]

Zweigstelle Schwaigau

Well hidden and known only to locals and insiders, the ATZ (Arbeitstrainingszentrum) „Zweigstelle Schwaigau“ is located in the middle of the Upper Austrian Schwaigau. Admittedly, you have to know what you are looking for when you make your way to „Zweigstelle Schwaigau“. Even as a local, it took me a while to find out that […]