Gardens Illustrated Magazine

True grit

IN BRIEF

What Private garden and nursery of Peter Korn and Julia Andersson. Where Sweden.
 Size Three-and-a-half acres.
 Soil Sand beds over alkaline soil.
 Climate Cold and windy winters with mild summers and light to moderate rainfall.
 Hardiness zone USDA 7a.

Eight years ago, Peter Korn and Julia Andersson moved to their current house in southern Sweden, where they have created not only a beautiful home but also a nursery, Klinta Tradgard, that provides plants for their numerous public planting projects. These commissions, as with much of their home garden, are planted in pure sand, and Peter has become well known as a pioneer of this approach, which offers a range

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