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Mainau, Lake Constance, Germany

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ritamax

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Mainau, Lake Constance, Germany
« on: May 07, 2012, 02:20:53 PM »
The island of Mainau (Insel Mainau) near the Swiss border in Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany, is a wonderful place in the time of tulips (April), roses (June) and dahlias (August). It has wonderful mature trees as well. Orchid exhibition every March. Obviously no mediterranean climate, but temperate and very mild.
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Hobbygardener (MGS member) with a rooftop garden in Basel and a garden on heavy clay with sand 600m from seaside in Costa Blanca South (precipitation 300mm), learning to garden waterwise
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Alisdair

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Re: Mainau, Lake Constance, Germany
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2012, 04:12:22 PM »
Thanks for the suggestion, and for those lovely pictures; that rill looks pretty spectacular!
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Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society
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MikeHardman

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Re: Mainau, Lake Constance, Germany
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2012, 07:13:34 PM »
Wow!
Lovely photos!
The tulips remind me of the Dutch Keukenhof.
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Mike
Geologist by Uni training, IT consultant, Referee for Viola for Botanical Society of the British Isles, commissioned author and photographer on Viola for RHS (Enc. of Perennials, The Garden, The Plantsman).
I garden near Polis, Cyprus, 100m alt., on marl, but have gardened mainly in S.England
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