Garden Days at Langenburg Castle

Gartentage auf Schloss Langenburg

05. - 07. September 2014

 

Have you been to Hohenlohe once before? 

 Hohenlohe is located in the Northeast of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, but the boundaries of this charming region with many castles and lovely valleys are not clearly defined.

Langenburg is one of the gems of the Hohenlohe region with an impressive castle on a hill / headland high above the river Jagst.

Enjoy some of my impressions I took during the popular Langenburg garden days one week ago.

They took place in and around the Langenburg castle.

Any idea what kind of flower I took here?

-->  Echinacea purpurea "Now Cheesier", what else!?  ;-)

Not only Indian elephants I was able to find on the castle walls...

 ...even real alpacas you were able to experience on the exhibition.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away???

Here are plenty of them - each a different species / strain.

But you know: I can't see a beautiful flower without taking a photo of it (or two, three or seventeen).

Here: Japanese anemone / Anemone hupehensis / Herbst-Anemone

 Last but not least:

Topinambour / Helianthus tuberosus / Topinambur

I hope you enjoyed my walk through the garden exhibition!

Garden festival - British style...

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Hi folks!

Welcome to the Royal Garden Festival at Wolfsgarten Castle near Langen, Hesse, Germany.

This year's central theme of the garden festival was "English Gardening".

No wonder that Lissy, err, sorry, Elisabeth II was among the guests in the wonderful park of Wolfsgarten Castle.

 But let's focus more on the wonderful late summer florets many exhibitors brought with them.

Purple Echinacea...

...and the red variant.

These pink beauties should be of the Anemone hupehensis species.

Black-eyed Susan / Rudbeckia hirta "Indian summer" !?!?!?

Guests from Japan: Tricyrtis hirta, the toad lily.

Physalis alkekengi - and many other names for the lantern plant:

Bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern, or Winter cherry; Japanese: hōzuki

Finally: a golden Echinacea and...

...Actaea racemosa, the fairy candle or black cohosh, black bugbane or black snakeroot.

Ooops...

...at the end of the festival I even discovered the everlasting Prince of Wales, HRH Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, in the buggy of this very British lady from the first photo...

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for stopping by and for accompanying us straight through the park.