Trädgårdsföreningen (The Garden Society)
Nineteenth-century city park with a Victorian cast-iron palm house, rose garden and flower borders.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Trädgårdsföreningen, the Garden Society park in Gothenburg, is about the people who worked here rather than the people who strolled here, from its founding in 1842 into the early twentieth century. It follows Georg Löwegren, a gardener trained among the orchids of Herrenhausen, and the Scottish-built Palm House he argued for. Along the way you meet the seed business and the cashier who ran it for decades. Best heard standing in front of the Palm House.
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