Garden Culture
In the past, there was a great difference between the garden culture in eastern and western Schleswig.
In the Flensburg Fjord area there were distinguished orchards as early as in the 18th century, and already around 1800 the larger farmers turned to an urban garden style. They obtained rare trees such as copper beeches and medlars from Flensburg nurseries. In the heaths and marshlands, people were still content with having a kitchen garden enclosed by high ramparts. After the border was drawn in 1920, the national difference of garden cultures of the two countries became established in local gardens.
Danish garden culture from the 1920s to the 1950s was characterised by order and simplicity. German garden culture in the 1920s and 1930s, on the other hand, was permeated by the romantic ideal of flower-filled ”cottage gardens” and wild ”nature gardens”. As a result, many German gardens seemed to look messy and inappropriate to Danes, while many Germans found Danish gardens rather boring.
Since the 19th century, while in German gardens typically „Gartenzwerge“ (garden gnomes) and other ornaments were used, in Denmark unlimited use of stones and cement figures became prominent.
In the Flensburg Fjord area there were distinguished orchards as early as in the 18th century, and already around 1800 the larger farmers turned to an urban garden style. They obtained rare trees such as copper beeches and medlars from Flensburg nurseries. In the heaths and marshlands, people were still content with having a kitchen garden enclosed by high ramparts. After the border was drawn in 1920, the national difference of garden cultures of the two countries became established in local gardens.
Danish garden culture from the 1920s to the 1950s was characterised by order and simplicity. German garden culture in the 1920s and 1930s, on the other hand, was permeated by the romantic ideal of flower-filled ”cottage gardens” and wild ”nature gardens”. As a result, many German gardens seemed to look messy and inappropriate to Danes, while many Germans found Danish gardens rather boring.
Since the 19th century, while in German gardens typically „Gartenzwerge“ (garden gnomes) and other ornaments were used, in Denmark unlimited use of stones and cement figures became prominent.