The Pleasure & Herb gardens
Gardens for both utility and pleasure were extremely important at the time. The pleasure garden for recreation and as a status symbol, the utility garden necessary for self-sufficiency. The estate records list a variety of garden tools such as gravel shovels, garden shears and grafting saws.
We do not know exactly what the gardens looked like, no drawings or depictions have been preserved. But they stretched along the north and west sides of the estate with intersecting paths and parterres. It is said that Bengt von Echstedt liked to walk along the paths in his garden, opening and closing the gates behind him, and this was his only work.
The appearance of the garden today is based on archaeological excavation and action plans made by the landscape architect Sven A.Hermelin in the 1990s. It was also then that the apple orchard and the herb garden were created. At the end of the garden is the fish pond where the servants used to be able to pick up a fresh sparkling carp for the couple’s dinner guests!