Wander downhill along the gently curved mushroom paths towards the moss garden. On the upper end of the mushroom paths you’ll find a wooden bench in the so called “White Garden” with snowdrops, Christmas roses, hyacinths and bluebells. On the forest floor, the lowest vegetation level, mosses provide hiding place and food for many insects, […]
On Rietzer Berg you can encounter the successful attempt to overcome the classic vegetation on the earth’s surface and to conquer the vertical level. The roofs of several buildings like the carport, the stable and the paddock shelters are covered with moss, chive, grasses and sedum. Different plant communities have established themselves on various locations […]
At the lower end of the park, in the north of the site, there is a maze that is mown into the lawn. Its form originates from Crete, from the culture of the Camuni, an ice-age Alpine people from Lombardy. The drawings carved into the rocks are dated back to 7,000 BC. At the end, […]
The “Blue Garden” was created around the stage in the lower part of the park. When the first spring flowers stretch their heads through the soil you can see blue scilla overflowing the complete hill. And in summer many water flag can be found along the stream near the stage. More blue color is given by […]
The view from the house to the south crosses the so-called sun garden, also called the “Yellow Garden”. In its center there is a round bed with sun-loving grasses and flowers like wild daffodils, crocuses and tulips. A wooden platform offers space for concerts, a play or a large dining table for guests. On the […]
What actually constitutes the “soul of the bamboo”? Most of us know the atmospheric charm of East Asian ink drawings, in which the masters depict the essence of bamboo on paper in two dimensions with apparent ease: so typical are the shapes of its leaves with their branches as well as their stalks with the […]
A second watercourse was built in the southeast of the landscape park and flows down the hill in broad arches. On its edges grow wild roses, chokeberry bushes and peach trees as well as strawberries, watercress and mint. Dead hedges (Benjes hedges) were built between the arches of the watercourse. These linear, loose deposits of […]
The Infinity Pool that is fed by the Blue Belt gives the impression of extending to the infinity. Or at least to the valley behind the hill. The water flows over the edges of the pool, irrigates the Green Wall and continues at its food towards the planned pond at the north of the site. […]
The so-called Blue Belt, the lifeline of the landscape park, is a man-made watercourse that emerges in the forest. Its course is not fixed but is allowed to change. Starting from its small spring basin, which is surrounded by swampy terrain with acidic soil, it meanders down through the forest. Mint and acid-loving bog plants […]
