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.

Beginning of fall in the Japanese Garden of Wolfsgarten palace

Schloss Wolfsgarten, Langen, Germany,

recent weekend.

Schloß Wolfsgarten is a former hunting seat of the ruling family of Hesse-Damstadt, approx. 15 km south of Frankfurt am Main.
In the twentieth century, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig extensively modernized Schloß Wolfsgarten and rearranged its park.

The 100-year-old Japanese Garden was restored in 2011and newly opened on the occasion of the "Japantag" within the Royal Garden Festival / Fürstliches Gartenfest at Schloss Wolfsgarten.

The Japanese Garden with a big water lily pond in its center accomodates various old dawn redwood and Japanese maple trees with the slender leaves. They change their colour from green to yellow into dark red during the autumn season. This process is right now in full swing.

The property and its garden is open to the public only on two weekends in May during the annual Rhododendrenblüte / Rhododendron festival and again for a weekend in September for the The Schloss Wolfsgarten Garden Festival

Have a great start into an inspiring and colourful new (work) week!