The gardens
The gardens at Astrid Lindgren’s Näs are encompassed in a garden park created with inspiration from Astrid Lindgren’s life and writing. The gardens consist of various lush green spaces that invite you to play and explore as well as enjoy quiet conversations and a moment of rest.
Storytelling Gardens
The gardens are part of the story at Astrid Lindgren’s Näs. The various rooms have grown out of themes that permeate Astrid Lindgren’s writing – themes such as freedom, courage, hope and a joy of life. In the gardens, moss beds, leafy halls and meadows of nettles coexist with sculptures, music and water play. All imbued with the Småland landscape that Astrid Lindgren loved.
‘….if someone asks me what I remember from my childhood, my first thought is not the people. It’s the nature that permeated my days then and filled them so intensely that as an adult it is hardly believable. The wild strawberries in the stone heaps, the grounds where hepatica grew, the cowslip meadows, the blueberry places, the woods with the wonderful pink bells of the linnaea in the moss, the pastures around Näs, where we knew every path and every stone, the river with the water lilies, the ditches, the streams and the trees. I remember all that more than the people. The stones and trees were dear to us, almost like living beings, and nature was what enclosed and nourished our dreams.
In the fields around us, everything in our imaginations was played out, all the stories, all the adventures we made up or read or heard about happened nowhere else but there.’
From “Minnes” by Astrid Lindgren
Like a story without end…
The story of the gardens at Astrid Lindgren’s Näs began in 2013. The aim was to create gardens on three and a half hectares of land, in the very place Astrid Lindgren grew up. The gardens were built in three stages, three chapters, with a new chapter opening each year. Since the summer of 2016, the entire garden has been open to visitors, but even today the garden continues to evolve, change shape and surprise. Like a green, living tale. Like a story without end.
The first chapter
The first chapter of the garden saga links Astrid Lindgren’s childhood home, the exhibition pavilion and the old Vicarage at Näs.
The second chapter
Here you can wander through the meadows to the Leaf Hall, stop in the Forest Grove or Moss Garden and then continue on to the pastures.
The third chapter
The path continues up a magnificent cherry staircase, into the Oak Grove of creativity, along brave paths to the gates of the pastures.