More on Austria and its gardens

Vienna - It is no accident that there are so many important examples of 18thC Garden Art around Vienna as it again was a sign of conspicuous consumption or a fashion but a very expensive one, as one finds in England and is copied in the United States of America at the key houses of the Presidents like at Mount Vernon. Garden Art was taken up by the Aristoscrats and later by the bourgeoisie to paraphrase an article edited by Michael Conan called "Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850". This sociology of garden art is strong on Vienna and the changing times and shift in wealth particularly dealt with on page 155. Anyway it explains much of the following list of formal and very conservative gardens.

Baden One garden has 20,000 rose trees and the other near the Casino is known as the Spa Garden

Belvedere Schloss

Laxenburg – the gardens can be visited all year round. http://www.schloss-laxenburg.at

Prasak

Das Pflantzenland near Vienna.

A must for anyone developing a garden in this region I think. They have a catalogue online.

http://www.praskac.at

The Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn near Vienna are a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Tuelln is near the Danube. Die Garten Tuelln, Am Wasspark1. Travel from main railway station Tuelln by bus and back. Time table on line.

Wiedendorf

There is a mediterranean swimming pond here.

http://www.diegaerten.at/en/www.marienschloessl.at

Arche-Noah

Attracts 30,000 visitors a year. May and October are the most active periods in their callendar of events.

This site is in German and English.

Preserving and saving biodiversity by bringing traditional and rare plants back to the market. Seeds and plants available. There is an Organic Visitors Garden.

http://www.arche-noah.at

Grafenegg

"The Gardens of Lower Austria" / "Die Gaerten Niederoesterreichs" St Poelten 5 April 2008 consisted of showing 26 gardens ranging from herbal to imperial gardens. Should still have exhibition gardens.

Killenburger

Adventure gardens ie Farm gardens a Japanese garden, a garden of Fire and Rainbow, a maze, Rose garden. http://www.kittenberger.at

Gardener Starkl

45 hectares of types of trees set out in a country park has a garden planning division.

Mallnitz has an Alpine Botanic Garden

Villach

Here you can find Austria's oldest Nature Reserve - Dobratsch National Park