The ega Erfurt is one of the largest and most beautiful recreational parks in Germany, with flowers galore, parks, theme gardens, exhibition buildings, playgrounds and a kids’ fun farm. It is home to the largest ornamental flowerbed in Europe, it has an impressive rose garden and a fantastic tropical green house. The Japanese rock and [...]
Right in the middle of Bremen’s well known Rhodendron park, Botanika presents exciting floral landscapes that take visitors to new discoveries of three bewilderingley rich flowerscape attractions: * Discovery Centre * Himalayas and Borneo * Japanese Garden Start your journey through the world of plants inside the Discovery Centre, where you can easily find out [...]
One of the most important Botanical Gardens in the world is situated in Munich’s leafy suburb of Nymphenburg. Here, the Botanischer Garten in Munich provides its visitors with hours of sheer joy. However, more than that, it is also an educational and vocational training institution and part of the city’s university which aims to preserve [...]
In Brühl, near Cologne, is the Rococo treasure and UNESCO World Heritage Site, Augustusburg. Commissioned by the Elector and Archbishop of Cologne, Clement August, it was built in 1725 by the eminent architect Schlaun and a few years later restyled and completed by Cuvillies. Girard’s original garden design still exists and strictly follows the innovations [...]
Opened as a botanical garden in 1798, the Angers Jardins des Plantes became a public park in 1898, designed by Edouard Andre. The sweeping lines of the paths, the well-placed statues and the gardenesque planting are characteristic of his style.
The largest Cistercian abbey of Ile-de-France was built between 1228 and 1235. It became a cotton mill after the French Revolution, a hospital during the First World War and an international cultural centre after the Second World War. The grounds were also restored. A park was made in the nineteenth century park and a re-created [...]
Garden fanatics will be converging on the Swedish city of Gothenburg for the ‘Gardens of Gothenburg’ exhibition which kicks off on 28 June 2008 and runs for three months. The exhibition will take place in four key locations in and around the city centre. The four locations are: The Trädgårdsföreningen (the Garden Society of Gothenburg), [...]
The summer garden is a kind of modern knot garden with a very formal layout of clipped box in a square edged pattern. Each ‘box’ is then filled with a very natural planting of grasses and perennials but the colours are superb. Lots of golden yellow, deep red, burning oranges… The overall mix of formal [...]
Le Clos du Coudray – situated not far from Agapanthe, boasts over 8,000 varieties of plants in 25 themed gardens. A stream winds its way past rockeries, exotic gardens and gardens of roses, dahlias and grasses. A nursery sells seeds and plants.
The world-famous Mirabell Gardens were built along a north-south axis and oriented towards the Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Salzburger Dom cathedral. The original gardens were re-modelled according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach under the reign of Prince Archbishop Johann Ernst Thun in 1689. Only some decades later, Franz Anton Danreiter altered them [...]
