Min pappa var en trädgårdens mästare.

This is the story of the gardener and nurseryman Arthur Persson, Asarum in Blekinge.

He devoted his whole life to plants and gardening. Sometimes he aimed too high and fell hard. His ideas were occasionally a little too bold for the time. He was a very skilled professional, but not as good at finances. His story is also part of 20th-century Swedish gardening history. When there was a gardener in every village, when the Swedish villa garden was born and was to be furnished and it was grown both large and small, useful and beautiful, high and low in the Swedish commercial gardens and nurseries. A green century.

In the book My father was a master of the garden Part of 20th-century Swedish garden history, the garden journalist and author Gunnel Carlson lovingly depicts the story of his father, the gardener and nurseryman Arthur Persson.

Arena Book Publishing.

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My dad was a master of the garden.

This is the story of the gardener and nursery artist Arthur Person, Asarum in Blekinge.