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!

...more, more, more harbingers of spring!

On Sunday we had sunshine - Yeah!

And more and more we can find harbingers of spring,
although we still have winter temperatures in large parts of Germany.

On Saturday we visited the "Esslinger Garden Days", an enjoyable event in the pedestrian area of the old town of Esslingen, a city in the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

Several exhibitors presented their products around the topics garden and gardening, among them several flower shops and market gardens with a presentation of the first early flowering plants and flowers.

Pansies in little bottles, tulips and willow catkins were my favourites to take photos from.

But mainly I had my hands in the jacket pockets to keep them warm.

 

At home I took some photos of the almond branches we brought with us from our Easter excursion,
in the meanwhile the buds opened their white and pink petals.

Enjoy your workweek!
Enjoy springtime!