CHATEAU SOFIERO 



You now find lovely English-looking herbaceous 

 borders in varied and brilliant hues, borders 

 kept in one shade, all yellow, all blue ; in a 

 ravine below the house there is a water-garden 

 and down towards the sea a rockery. Trees were 

 cut down, the sunlight could again penetrate 

 everywhere and renew the fertility of the soil. 

 Many flowers that were considered too fragile 

 to grow in a northern climate have proved them- 

 selves hardy when watched over with tender 

 care. Sofiero is now regarded as a model garden, 

 and the Crown Princess is consulted by many as 

 an authority on gardening in her new home. 

 It is thanks to her that the slumbering charm 

 of Sofiero has been awakened and the place 

 transformed from a wilderness to " a thing ot 

 beauty." 



HOFROKEN DAGMAR WIEDENHIELM 



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