Scandinavian landscape and garden design is original, sophisticated and poetic. Powerfully architectural, with an emphasis on geometry and sculpture, it is an evocative and romantic tradition. The Scandinavian enthusiasm for outdoor living, making the most of the endless summer daylight hours, has meant that garden designers are particularly innovative in treating gardens as outdoor rooms or extensions of the house . Karl-Dietrich Buhler has an unrivalled knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, the gardens of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. This book focuses on the best gardens of the region, both the small jewels produced by amateur gardeners and the gardens designed by world-famous landscape architects such as Carl Theodor Sorensen and Andreas Bruun. With the aid of full-colour photographs and plans, he describes elegant town gardens, and country, woodland and coastal gardens that are carefully designed into their landscapes.

Author Biography

Karl-Dietrich Buhler is an internationally-known photographer, specialising in gardens and landscapes. He trained in Germany as a horticulturalist before becoming a magazine gardening editor. Then, in 1973, he moved to Sweden and devoted himself to photography. He now spends his winters in Genoa and his summers at his house in the Swedish countryside, photographing gardens. He has published books and journals throughout Europe and has exhibited in Zurich, Lausanne, Perugia, Genoa, Turin and Koge.