Europe's most beautiful garden is in Skåne!

Narcissi with their nostalgic scent and charm, plus many new varieties, jostle for space around Crown Princess Margareta's flower walk. There are also several kinds of tulips such as the pink-red Victoria tulip, tinged with white, to honour of the Royal wedding of Princess Victoria! Read more at www.sofiero.se

At Fredriksdal's open-air museum, also in Helsingborg, the park normally opens at Easter. Fruit trees in bloom, lots of vegetable seeds waiting to germinate in the kitchen garden and thousands of rose buds await in the Rose Garden. www.fredriksdal.se

The gardens at Österlen in southeast Skåne welcomes spring with lovely hellebores, crispy asparagus and millions of apple blossoms in white fragrant clouds. Here you can botanise among hundreds of varieties of spring's early beauties, which may even flower in snow. www.edafos.se

In Simrishamn, Österlen, you can enjoy the tulip festival in the old museum garden with all the Mediterranean plants following a little bit later in early summer of Apotekarns trädgård. "Garden à la carte" in June is a concept in which many garden entrepreneurs entice visitors with beautiful gardens, spring vegetables, market gardens with various specialties and garden rooms for rest and reflection. www.simrishamn.se

In the heart of Lund is the Botaniska Trädgården.  Almost 7,000 species are grown here. The garden is open to visitors daily. The park contains fascinating trees, in the flowerbeds you will find many different kinds of bulbs in early spring and the greenhouses offer an abundance of rare and exotic plants. www.botaniskatradgarden.se