I had serious shopping to do so David went in his own for a day in the country on the bus, destination Enkoping (pronounced Ensherping) famous for its 19 civic parks - population 40,000. A train and a horse wagon carried them on a tour of most of the parks.
Highlight was the biggest one, Dream Park, commenced in 1995 as a collaboration between head gardener and a famous Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf with a focus on perennials in small blocks of colour. An exception is the meandering Sage River, a large block of colour / photo 1
Plantings appear in all public spaces e.g. Kings Bridge, /photo 5, Fountain Park and the strip along the river where quirky student displays catch the eye, including one with birch trees planted upside down. / photo 4
My shopping was productive and involved lots of walking. For lunch I bravely ordered Ost & Skinka Smorgasar and got ham and cheese sandwich! - then came back to the hotel to be one of those people sitting in the deck chair.
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