Language: Swedish
A garden is in constant change. Taking care of an old garden is therefore not about freezing a condition. Instead, it's about getting to know the garden in order to best preserve its various parts for the future.
As a garden antique dealer, André Strömqvist has extensive experience of older environments, and in his role as gardener at the same time the practical knowledge required. Here he describes how we can find clues, interpret what we see and set an ambition level that works. Pedagogically, he guides us through the different parts of the garden in the form of flower beds, hedges, stone paths and fruit trees. He describes how we can go about caring for, restoring and recreating the various parts, and lets history in the form of pioneers, methods and cultural varieties of earlier times arouse curiosity and inspiration.
"To take care of an old garden is to take care of a piece of local history, but also a small part of a culture that spans the whole world."
Product information
Author: André Strömqvist
Designer: Lotta Kühlhorn & sons
Photographer: André Strömqvist
ISBN: 9789113111131
Language: Swedish
Weight: 808 grams
Released: 2022
Publisher: Norstedts
Pages: 223