Rosendals Trädgård - Blooming Gardens, Café and Farm Shop
in short...
a lovely trip to Djurgården Island - preferably in midsummer
a picnic beneath apple trees
the best extra - cutting our own flowers
The island of Djurgården, a green oasis in the heart of Stockholm, is a wonderful place for daydreaming.
It's hard to believe that this idyllic paradise can be found so centrally located in the Swedish capital.
Wandering through Rosendal Trädgård, established by the Swedish Garden Society between 1861 and 1911, to the greenhouses and gardens with the charmingly romantic café, makes for a perfect outing on a long Swedish midsummer day, we would never want to miss.
On a meadow under apple trees and among flowerbeds, you'll find tables, benches, and chairs.
Inside the lovely greenhouses, a farm shop, a flower shop, a stone oven bakery, and a biodynamic garden café offer delicious pastries, breads, salads, ice cream, coffee, wine, and lemonade.
Everything a picnic-loving heart could want is easy to gather here, including a lovely blanket to spread out on the wide meadow.
So it’s easy to daydream and enjoy life beside fragrant roses and in the shade of trees.
If you find it hard to part with the enchanting blossoms, you can borrow garden shears from the flower shop and cut your own flowers.
The gardeners grow about fifty different varieties each year, entirely pesticide-free and organically.
Back at the flower shop, you pay by weight and take a piece of Rosendals Trädgård home with you.
