Stockholm Gardens

About Stockholm Gardens

Stockholm sits right at the waterline where the Mississippi spreads into Lake Pepin, with wooded bluffs rising behind the little village. Swedish immigrants founded the place, and it still carries a calm, unhurried charm along its handful of quiet streets. Stockholm Gardens tends lawns in that setting, mowing and edging so the grass lies neat and green beneath bluff and lake. Late afternoon is the hour to see it, when the sun drops toward the Minnesota shore and the whole lake turns to hammered silver. A well-kept lawn here becomes part of the view, as much as the sails moving slowly out on the water.