The peninsula's great gardens are right here: Krapperup's castle park near Nyhamnsläge is free and open every day, and Höganäs has one of Sweden's most admired private gardens. For a royal rhododendron garden, Sofiero is a short drive south.
Krapperup castle seen across the park pond
Photo: Krissie56 · CC BY-SA 4.0Krapperup
The moated castle dates from the mid-1500s and stands on the remains of a medieval fortress. Its 19th-century English-style park has winding paths, tall exotic trees, rhododendrons, a rose garden with more than 600 plants and a goldfish pond crossed by red Chinese-style bridges. A café fills the old farm buildings, and the estate also has an art hall and a music hall. The castle interior can be seen on booked guided tours.
Ulla Molin's garden, Höganäs
Garden designer and writer Ulla Molin (1909–1996) spent her last two decades turning a villa garden on Tallgatan into a modernist garden of rooms: box clipped into spheres and animals, gravel paths, a plum grove for shelter and restrained planting in white, grey, pink and blue-violet. It has been a listed heritage site since 2010.
- The garden is privately owned and opens on the north-west Skåne open-garden weekend (Trädgårdsrundan) in early June.
- At other times, call +46 70 421 82 01 to ask about a viewing.
Worth the drive: Sofiero
Just north of Helsingborg, about 20 minutes from Höganäs, the former royal summer palace Sofiero (1865) holds King Gustaf VI Adolf's collection of almost 500 rhododendron varieties — at its best in late spring — plus a restaurant, café, exhibitions and summer concerts.
