The moss garden
The moss garden is a forest room where everything stands still and quiet. The high canopies of the deciduous trees form a roof over the hemlocks and moss. A spruce trellis forms walls and corners. Here, Peter Korn has planted twinflower and a variety of mosses, foxgloves, wood aster, Solomon’s seal and saxifrage, mixed with lady-fern and hart’s-tongue fern.
The melancholy garden
Melancholy is an emotion that is closely associated with both the sadness and beauty of life. In Astrid Lindgren’s stories, these feelings are given a lot of space, sometimes so much they carry the whole story; in ‘Mio My Son’, the dream of a father and belonging being the very foundation of the narrative. Melancholy is also present as very quiet feeling, a haunting melody about the fragility of life. In the form of a garden, melancholy is manifest as a somewhat constricted space, muted yet soft and with streaks of light.
“I think Britta and Anna fell asleep long before me. I lay awake for ages and heard a rustling in the forest, only a slight rustling. And there were little waves coming and hitting the beach so slowly, so slowly. It was so strange – I didn’t know whether I was sad or happy. I lay there and tried to feel whether I was sad or happy, but I couldn’t. Maybe sleeping in the forest makes you a little mad.”
From ‘Nothing but fun in Noisy Village’ by Astrid Lindgren
Read more about the gardens
The Forest Grove
To create a sense of safety, a garden must be calm, bright, warm and friendly. This is exactly what you will find in the Forest Grove.
The meadow
In the meadow, can children run free and fill their lungs with air. It’s open land full of promise and possibilities and close to the sky.
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.