The Walled Castle Garden
The Walled Castle Garden is unique and completely irresistible. Simon Irvine worked with the garden from 1990 to transform it into what you see today. He worked passionately with digging, planting, composting and caring for the Garden with the long run in mind to show sustainability in action. 2021 Simon retired and left the garden in the capable hands of Jenny and Erik who he has spent years teaching, and they continue to care for the garden in the same spirit.
Every spring, they turn the earth by hand, carefully and methodically. Every autumn, a compost is piled under the walnut trees. The garden, with its different terraces and high stone walls, is an oasis to stop in during the castle visit.
OPENING HOURSA part of Trädgårdsresan (The Garden Trip)
The garden has become known as a sensuous and enchanting exhibition garden, with a unique design every summer. Here visitors have delighted in The Unicorn’s Garden, Thistles in the Herb Garden or Wild Flowers – a display in 2007, the tercentenary of the botanist Carl von Linné.
The Walled Castle Garden is also part of “Trädgårdsresan” (The Garden Trip), a regional assignment and a Swedish equivalent of England’s garden calendar “Yellow Book”.
More about TrädgårdsresanA part of Trädgårdsresan (The Garden Trip)
The garden has become known as a sensuous and enchanting exhibition garden, with a unique design every summer. Here visitors have delighted in The Unicorn’s Garden, Thistles in the Herb Garden or Wild Flowers – a display in 2007, the tercentenary of the botanist Carl von Linné.
The Walled Castle Garden is also part of “Trädgårdsresan” (The Garden Trip), a regional assignment and a Swedish equivalent of England’s garden calendar “Yellow Book”.
More about TrädgårdsresanA living resource
For several years now, the master gardeners have worked to transform the garden into the kitchen garden that it was once ment to be. The Walled Castle Garden is a living resource for the castle, with vegetables, spices and edible flowers. Moreover, everything is ecologically cultivated.
What is harvested is immediately carried down to the kitchen. Spices, salads, cabbage and beets – when this is served, it is as locally grown as it can get. Yet no traces can be seen in the flower beds; so rich is the harvest and so skilled are the gardeners.
Do you wish to taste the ingredients from The Walled Garden? Please visit our restaurant.
Eat at Läckö