But even with us, flowering is already beginning – and with so many walk in your home country, you can enjoy alone or as a couple, sprouting buds, sun and spring air.
Anyone who fell in love with gardening has never been cured, ”said the famous German gardener Karl Foerster. Also of the saying of Ralph Waldo Emerson“Flowers are the smile of the earth”, one feels at the sight of these magnificent, diverse Gardens and park landscapes. When the first buds of the year sprout, the flower crowns smell beguiling and the seas of tulips and violets glow, it is one of the most exhilarating moments. Not only in domestic parks, such as the botanical one garden in the Viennese Belvedere, magnolias, mugs, violets and tulips come to life. Of Holland to Dubai the most creative gardeners have created extraordinary works of art and colorful flower arrangements in mostly private parks that are open to the public, which will hopefully carry their scent into the apartments in spring. More discerning gardening enthusiasts who want to see more than bright fields of tulips will get their money’s worth in English landscaped gardens such as Kew Gardens. The following applies here: “Weeds are the plants whose benefits have not yet been recognized,” to add again Ralph Waldo Emerson accept. In addition to rare plants, you can discover seas of blue star hyacinths and squill, yellow imperial crowns and rare magnolias. “There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them,” the French painter once said Henri Matisse.
Botanical Garden, Brooklyn, New York
Few know that it is in the middle Brooklyn a magnificent 52 acre botanical garden gives. The Brooklyn Park is opposite Prospect Park. Here visitors can admire 10,000 different plants from all over the world. Depending on your mood, you can choose between different ones Gardensin which thousands of other varieties bloom every month. You can enjoy peace and quiet in the Japanese hill pond garden, the scent of the Cranford rose garden beguiles from summer; The best time to stroll through the Steinhardt winter garden with the world-famous CV Starr Bonsai Museum is in autumn. In spring just the sight of the blossoming cherry trees cheers the mind. The cherry walks, called Hanami, go back to an ancient Japanese tradition where the falling petals were seen as a symbol of ephemerality and impermanence. When the delicate petals fall off, the park paths turn into a fragrant carpet of pink petals.
Now in bloom
The cherry trees and blood oaks are behind the Japanese Hill and the Pond Garden. Also in bloom: palm-cat bushes, irises, yellow daffodils and monkshood in the
Shakespeare Garden and the double-flowered “Kanzan” cherry, from around April. Free entry with the New York Pass, https://www.bbg.org, https://de.newyorkpass.com
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