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Garden and Park Schloss Berge, Gelsenkirchen
8 May
An epic English landscape garden, a herb garden to drive the witch crazy and a romantic French garden – all in one place. Who thought Gelsenkirchen was so beautiful?
The park and gardens at Schloss Berge (Gelsenkirchen) offer interesting perspectives. Portals formed by trees frame and reveal new scenes. High beechwood hedges flank the way into a labyrinth. Staggered arrangements emphasize distances. The area around the former castle is divided into three sections: the French garden with its geometrical flower borders and allegorical sculptures was created during the late baroque period, whereas the widespread English landscape garden was added during the 18th century. Between the two lies a labyrinth, which encloses a lavishly laid out herb garden with espalier fruit trees and plenty of healing herbs.
Fellow photographer Anna Krajewski guided me through this wonderful park, while walking her English bulldog. Mist veiled the nature and buildings and provided a chill and relaxed atmosphere. And so the three of us enjoyed the cool day, after an eventful Walpurgis night…
French Garden
The first garden at Schloss Berge…
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2018
12 Mar
March 07, 2018
After several weeks of drought and freezing cold, low “Wiebke” first brought rain and then snow, which lasted for a day and brought much needed precipitation. Within a few hours the white blanket was gone again and spring took over the next day. Winter slumber is definitely over! Alas, most early flowering plants had already blossomed at the end of an unusually warm January, and where then surprised by the Siberian cold that lasted throughout the month of February. In the end I ran around the garden with a watering can, carrying and pouring gallons of water from the rain barrel in our basement. Meanwhile we missed to empty the second rain barrel left outdoors and of course it burst when the water in it froze completely. To do: buy new rain barrel!
Now, there is still a bit of work to do with preparing the garden…
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Winter 2018
15 Feb Dresden Dölzschen
Baumhasel
Bienertpark im Winter
Bienertpark im Winter
Bienertpark im Winter
Genesung
Schneemann an der Elbe
Krokusse am Japanischen Palais
am Japanischen Palais
Wiebke Rost 