Baden. Green Oasis – Garden & Roses.

We already visited Baden once, and Doblhoffpark we visited too. It has been in May when along with residents of Baden lifted the Maibaum (Maypole).
And today we’ll visit the spa town for the second time. Baden is located absolutely near to Vienna, only in 26 km far away. There even is a special tram-train (Badener Bahn), starting from Vienna State Opera to Baden, but the track has so many stops and takes sometimes more than hour, so I prefer to get there by the railway line. Using this small ruse, I shorten the travel time up to 20 minutes with only some stops. In my opinion it is more convenient decision even than to get Baden by auto, especially when a season of young wines tasting begins.
Today the roses are still in blossom and we again enter to Doblhoffpark. The Doblhoffpark is known for its rosarium, largest in Austria and garden often named, the Garden of Roses. The Dobllhof Park, along with Kurpark, is one of the favorite places for rest of inhabitants and guests and they lead a lot of hours among the roses. In previous times the park was a part of Weikersdorf Castle, and now it is named Doblhoffpark after the name of its last owners. The Doblhoffpark became the property of local municipality in the 1960s of 20th century and the magnificent rosary was designed by architect Victor Modlhammer. I allow giving some impressing statistics: more than 30,000 rose shrubs are growing in 175 beds. The roses are in bloom twice a year – for the first time in June and in October – the second bloom.

Green Vienna. Folksgarten II

Today I once again invite to visit Vienna’s Folkgarten and have some more pleasant moments among roses.
Last time I’ve forgotten to write, that Folksgarten is a part of Hoffburg Palace ensemble.
By the way, one of the photos has been example of web design aquarelle and I've already ‘reserved a place’ in future for creation of aquarelle album on the basis of my lovely flowers photos.

Green Vienna. Folksgarten

Certainly, you have read in my profile that one of my professional activities is flora design and so I always pay my attention to this component of city landscape design. I already placed some posts related to gardens, parks and greenhouses and today I start a new cycle which named Green Vienna.
And believe me, there is what to show in Vienna and it will be not only most illustrious parks though also these parks I won’t disregard.
This year spring in Austria was cooler than usually and roses have blossomed with delay. In my opinion, in Vienna, the roses of Folksgarten are out of competition and when the flowering starts the garden is crowded in evening and can hardly to find a place to sit down and take pleasure both magnificent flowering and wonderful aroma of roses.
The Folksgarten is situated in first district of Vienna, in the Inner Stadt and there are seated the most attractive sights of the city. The park was built over the city fortifications destroyed by Napoleon. There is a site, and I’ll show it later where the part of old defensive walls was kept.
The park built step by step during several years and it was opened to the public in 1820 and also there is some small monuments, constructions, statues and fountains but today I give my love to roses.
The park roses start the blossom first. They are of once flowering and consequently I try to catch this moment when the big shrubs get a white, pink, yellow and red cover.
Further everything goes according to the order – climber roses, ramblers, groundcover, miniature, shrubs and certainly there are a lot of verities of their ancestries and colors.
So, today – a rest for eyes – the Queen Rose.

Football

The World Cup 2010 starts tomorrow and in this connection I would like to look back from today to event of two-year prescription. In June 2008 the UEFA European Football Championship was hosted by Austria and Switzerland. I was living in Vienna while the tournament took place there and whole month lived inside this event.
My son is a football fan but just this time he had examinations in University and couldn’t visit me, so I got a task to take maximum photos from this edition of competition.
So, in the very first day I went to the city’s center and started my EURO football tour from Fan Zone situated in Vienna’s center street – Ring. Especially for this purpose, Ring Street has turned to Pedestrian Street for whole month and my first photos took from that place. There were no crowds of fans in this time and I had a great opportunity to view everything and then I visited pavilion to purchase souvenirs stamped of EURO 2008 for my son. I faced to the stand with flags of participants and bought the flag of Spain, and in approx a month later the Spain team became the new European champions.
It is necessary to tell, that I presented directly inside of such great sport event for the first time, and all looks both interesting and attractive, and any TV transmission or internet doesn’t transfer a unique atmosphere when you have an “alive” contact.

Austria – Salzburg. Tulips of Mirabel Garden

Today we will stroll through the Mirabel Garden in Salzburg. The Mirabel garden is an integral part of Palace having the same name. Unfortunately the style of early baroque was lost due to late rebuilding and now the Mirabel Palace represents a sample of neoclassicism.
The Palace and a garden are one of the most favorite and attended places of Salzburg. The amazing view of ‘Hohensalzburg Fortress”, Salzburg’s prime attraction, opens in one photo taken from terrace. The construction began in 1077 and the ring walls and towers were built later, in 1462.
All photos of tulips and wisteria are taken from the Mirabel garden. They grow on beds and rabatte and superb choose of color – only yellow and purple-lilac for tulips and flowers-companions – make my compliments to garden’s designers.
And certainly, the concerts took place in the garden as Salzburg is famous for its musical traditions.
That’s all, and now I come back to Vienna.