At Oliver Gustav's moody antique garden shop in Copenhagen, you are as likely to find formally pruned topiaries and busts of the philosophers as a basket of crocus bulbs that got tired of waiting for daylight—and went ahead and bloomed in a hand-turned wooden bowl. For more information, visit Studio Oliver Gustav:

Photographs via Clyde Oak except where noted.

Above: Located on the site of a former distillery, an unassuming entrance—no sign, so you have to know where you're going—to Oliver Gustav's antiques and garden accessories shop. Photograph by Trine Thorsen.

Above: Oliver Gustav's store is at Strandstraede 9; best to Google map this before heading there. Photograph by Trine Thorsen.

Above: Photograph via Oliver Gustav.

Above: Design tip from Oliver Gustav: Everything looks better in a bell jar; natural curiosities and topiaries.

Above: Crocus bulbs in bloom in a bowl (L). Photograph by Barbro Hallin via Mobil. Mr. Gustav lives above his shop (R).

Above: The shopkeeper lives above the shop.

Above: Ferns and other house plants, waiting for someone to take them home. (N.B: Looking for more places to visit in Copenhagen? See "A Fairy Tale Garden in Denmark."

(N.B.: This is an update of a post published on September 11, 2012.)