The local name for this area is “Skargarden,” literally “garden of skerries,” unforested rocks sticking up from the sea. That stone is granite, carved out and deposited by glaciers. The archipelago ...

In this first-person how-to, van Sweden builds on the success of Gardening with Nature and Gardening with Water to reveal more about his own process of developing a garden design, showing readers how ...

Sixteen years of searching for a wedding ring culminated in an unlikely discovery for a Swedish couple. Ola and Lena Paahlsson found the ring on a carrot in their garden. “The carrot was sprouting in ...

During the 1920s, Charlotta Berglund ('Blomster-Lotta') (1890–1974) took her first steps at making a botanical garden among the high mountains of Ammarnäs in Sweden. Despite the hardship she faced ...

A revolutionary pioneer of the naturalistic New American Garden style, van Sweden (Architecture in the Garden) explains how gardeners can glean inspiration and borrow effective techniques from the ...