Eva Björkström On the Art of Gardening
Nordic Reach › Vol. 19 Nbr. 19, November 2006 › What Where When Who
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"Cultivate your garden!" said Voltaire. We Swedes have a knack for doing just that. We love our gardens, thanks in part to our beloved Carl von Linné (whose 400th anniversary will be celebrated next year), according to Eva Björkström, a well-known garden designer, author, and artist. Some time ago, Björkström took her audience at Scandinavia House on a historical garden tour - from the time of the Vikings through the reign of Gustav III, the Renaissance King who introduced Italian and French garden design to the Swedish nobility in the 1700s. Swedes, according to Björkström, are close to nature almost by default.
"For me it's a dialogue. I talk to my garden, 'Oh, I see you want to grow here. Well, I don't like that', and then I weed, 'But here you may grow!' My own garden is now maturing, which is wonderful. But it takes patience."See the full content of this document
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Eva Björkström On the Art of Gardening
"We love the wildness of nature. We did what we could with what we had. I think we always had a longing for beauty, even in the poorest of houses there were wild flo...
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