New Nordic Garden | Smultronställe

”Smultronställe”, a Swedish expression of a special place, where you feel happy and content.  This garden was created with the goal to be a comfortable escape close to home, comprises two gardens, a secluded courtyard garden by the front and a seaside hillside garden.

The elegant hillside garden overlooking the Baltic Sea, acts as a multifunctional space, where to spend quality time, but also to spend time alone. A spa bath is placed in a pocket of a giant rockbed, making it raised, with spectacular vistas where sailing boats sail by and where to watch the sunset. A dining area is placed in a sheltered, lower part of the garden, and an additional large wooden deck stretches along the house, ideal for a beautiful breakfast and late lounging in summer.

The front garden is created with a classic stone pathway, through lush planting, a simple and effective element that makes it orderly without restraining or overpowering the space. This gently curved path accentuates the planting beds, distinguishing the arranged space from the nearby rockbeds and sedum ground mats.

Following the principle of less is more; the garden has been worked on with care and clarity with a garden in harmony as a result.

The subtle colour palette on both the seaside garden and the courtyard front garden is coherent and connects to the landscape beyond, and include plants such as Lonicera, Rosa, Thymus and ornamental grasses, Sesleria and Deschampsia.