A Viking’s show garden

By Fiona Ogilvie
August 7 2016 - 4:20am
The herbal meadow overlooking lawns and arboretum at Ringve Botanical Gardens, Trondheim, Norway. The Old Perennial Garden contains borders of traditional herbaceous perennials collected from central Norway.
The herbal meadow overlooking lawns and arboretum at Ringve Botanical Gardens, Trondheim, Norway. The Old Perennial Garden contains borders of traditional herbaceous perennials collected from central Norway.

If I were asked to suggest a country for a garden tour I probably wouldn’t nominate Norway. The Vikings were impressive mariners but they weren’t gardeners, and not much has changed since their heyday 1200 years ago.

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