Growing up, Dambo remembers buying troll figurines, his mom telling him a troll put a large stone in the garden, or how biking up certain hills was hard because a troll tugged at riders' clothes.

Artist Thomas Dambo designed five trolls for the garden's more than 300 acres. DAMBO: And then I always look for, ... he used to live on the stone, but the government just didn't want to leave him ...

As Icelandic legend goes, trolls are nocturnal creatures that turn to stone if they get caught in the sun. The Elf Garden is another hat-tip to Icelandic mythology.

The trolls are the work of international artist Thomas Dambo. And he’s bringing two new ones to Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh. “My mission is Waste No More: our world is drowning in trash ...

Woodland world: Starbuck man creates whimsical troll garden By Anne Polta [email protected] From under a carved wooden arch, Arne and Carol Pederson beckon visitors into Holly Skogen.

Who brought the first gnome to England will probably never be proven, but the first to record using the figures in his garden was Charles Isham at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire who by the 1870s ...