I got an email from Rosendal Garden, one of my favorite places in Stockholm, shown wrapped in winter. With a history as small farms and pasture land, hunting grounds, and summer vacation spot for Swedish kings, Rosendal is now a beautiful organic garden and education center. We rode our bikes around the property last summer, ate at the cafe and admired the produce and plants for sale in the glass greenhouse. The round pink building is the Orangerie.
There is a wonderful apple orchard with venerable trees still producing fruit. As you see, each tree has a tag naming the variety and year planted. So this tree has stood since 1864! Gnarled and leaning, each tree uniquely showing its age, the Swedes allow nature to grow a little wild and wanton. Time isn't treated as an enemy. I love it.
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