Humlegården.
As I was cutting through Humlegården the other day, I noticed there were leaves on the ground. As in leaves that had turned a golden color and fallen. As in autumn leaves. I’m just not into this. Not yet anyway. Try me again in a month.
Carl Linneaeus on his pedestal in Humlegården.
All that said, I do like walking through Humlegården – it’s my new local park. And here’s your fun Swedish facts of the day: humle means hop and apparently, they were grown in this city garden back in the day. The garden itself dates back to the 1600s. And the statue above is of the famous Swede Carl Linnaeus, known as Linne here, who is called the father of modern taxonomy – he gave the plants and animals formal names. Now don’t you feel informed?
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Yes, humlegården was a place where hop was grown, but remember this was in the times when Stockholm was more or less only Old town (Gamla Stan). At that time ‘Kungsträdgården’ was also the place for the king’s vegetables, closed for any other than the royals. Östermalm was filled with cows eating grass and so was Kungsholmen, that was owned by monks and there was a monastery there, if i remembered all of my Stockholm history right 🙂
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