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Thyme Planteskole.
The third secret spot: a plant nursery on the edge of town, in the same family name since 1964 — an open yard under polytunnel roofs, glasshouse aisles that go on and on, apples on espaliered trees, heather, grasses and a table of pumpkins in autumn. In the middle of November it turns into Christmas.
Location: the yard under the roofs, Gammel Hastrupvej 1 · Photo: The Contentmakers · CC BY 4.0
File: 18-THYME-TRAY / the autumn table as shot, the rest printed as a seed tray
The secret
A nursery under glass and plastic.
Thyme Planteskole began as a fruit plantation in the 1940s, vegetables grown between the rows of trees and sold on the square in Køge. Flemming Thyme, trained at one of Denmark’s largest nurseries, started the nursery here in 1964; in the 1970s and 80s it grew trees and shrubs on 36 tønder land, much of which is now Køge Golf Klub. Today it is a retail nursery on seven tønder land — more than 25 people, a large shop, a 1,000 m² covered yard and two big glasshouses — and the man who runs it today started here at sixteen, sweeping the yard.
Come for the walk as much as for the plants: through the shop into the yard under the arched roofs, past the heather and the pumpkins, into the long glasshouse aisles, out to the trees and the hedging plants. In autumn the tables are laid with white pumpkins, apples, candles and wreaths of dried hydrangea. The photographs are our own, from a sunny October morning; the yard is printed here as a seed tray seen from above, one cell to a plug, the autumn table left exactly as it was.
Where
Gammel Hastrupvej 1, 4600 Køge — on the north-western edge of town, by Køge Golf Klub. Free parking.
When
2 March – 1 November: Mon–Fri 09:30–17:00, Sat, Sun and holidays 09:00–16:00. 2 November – 23 December: Mon–Fri 09:30–17:00, Sat, Sun and holidays 09:30–15:00. Closed 24 December – 3 January 2027. 5 January – 1 March: Mon–Fri 09:30–16:00, Sat–Sun 10:00–14:00.
Phone
+45 56 65 00 22 · e-mail butik@thymes.dk.
Juledage
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November 2026, 09:30–15:00, free entry and parking: marshmallows over the bonfire, æbleskiver, gløgg and hot chocolate (10:00–14:30), a Christmas story told by the nisse, twice a day from 11:00, a nisse hunt and a free craft table for children, a decoration workshop with the nursery’s decorators, tastings from Hr. Skov and Aalborg Chokolade, and on Saturday the choir Aspirata Vocalis. Children can hand in a Christmas stocking from 14 to 28 November and get something in it every Advent Sunday.
The nursery
Trees, fruit trees and bushes, roses, perennials, hedging, grasses, rhododendrons, climbers, bulbs, herbs, house plants, pots and baskets; many of the plants grown here. A garden designer can be booked for a home visit.
The story
A fruit plantation in the 1940s; the nursery from 1964 (Flemming and Astrid Thyme); 60 years in 2025. The name is the family’s.
Secret spots
Café Åsen and the rhododendron park at Gammel Køgegård — Secret spots 01 and 02; there are rhododendrons for sale here too.
Source
thymes.dk — front page, opening hours and contact, history and events, read 14 October 2026; the nursery’s Juledage poster in the shop. Photographs: The Contentmakers, CC BY 4.0.
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