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.

Austria. Tulips of Salzburg

Last spring’s days, and I would like to return by days when tulips and wisteria still blossomed and the first leaves just open. Before summer has come I once again wanna inhale unique sensation, which will return to me only in year later.

Thereto we shall train to Salzburg. Again we start our travel from Vienna. The travel takes about two and half hour. Here, in Salzburg is cooler than in Vienna and it becomes clear when you take a look at first photo with snow-covered mountain tops surrounding Salzburg. My catch the eye in this trip was sent on tulips which have already faded in Vienna but here I have still had opportunity to find magnificence blossom of tulips and wisteria. Wisteria, its gentle violet-blue pendulous racemes (just before the leaves open) decorated the walls of Mirabel garden and nothing prevented to admire their transparency on a background of the high spring sky.

Today I won’t tell anything about the city, we will return here in autumn. By the way, for the first time I had a trip to Salzburg on autumn and till now that impression is most bright. At this particular time it is possible to feel greatness of the mountains which have already became covered by snow, on a background of the dark sky and in my opinion, this picture even more goes with Salzburg and transfers greatness and monumentalize of surrounding landscape better.
But while all only begins– all comes to life.

Murano Glass in New Travel Collection from Green Diamond

Every time, when I travel to Venice, I admire with Murano glass. But at the same time I can very seldom find glass jewelry having a worthy setting. It always surprised me but eventually I’ve understood a reason: Venice is famous for its glass items but not as jeweler manufacturers and so we took beautiful Murano glass and created a new summer collection.

We utilized Sterling Silver, genuine leather, Gold Filled as material for chains, clasps and other decorative details in our new summer collection and as a result, we’ve achieved a new look at Murano glass.

Europe Day and Genussfestival in Vienna

Yesterday, on May 9 all over of EU celebrated Europe day. Also this day is known as Schuman Day when on May 9, 1950 was created a new form of organization called a supranational Community.
A lot of actions have arranged in Vienna this day including non official, but they are the most attractive for Viennese and visitors.
And as usually, the days between May 7 and May 9 (this year), became the festive days for gourmets and Austrian’s delicacies fans. I mean the “Wiener Genussfestival” in Stadpark. Cottage industries and top gastronomes (over150 participants) offered to taste Vienna ham, Carinthian honey, Vorarlberg cheese and more and more of best Austrian food.
Within 3 days visitors tasted, drank and communicate with pleasure in one of the prettiest Vienna parks. And the most attractive is that nobody forbids trampling down the lawns and we settled down for urban picnic and enjoyed fine spring day.

Labour Day, May 1 in Vienna

Labour Day is a national holiday in Austria. Austria has a strong labor movement and on May 1 many of Austrians celebrate this holiday with rallies, political parades and the festivities continue with concerts and traditional get-together in tents usually assembled for a time of holidays where we have a meal and drink some of bear.
You see one of such “oases” in photo and it’s situated in front of the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party or SPÖ that govern the country and that is one of the oldest parties in Austria. It must be said, the official party’s color is red.
And really, all was full in red; even tulips on a bed were in brightly red color.
And also in these May days erect the Maypole. Couple of years ago I took part along with inhabitants of Baden in this holiday and also shall tell in next time about.