Today I require to share an experience I had while in Germany in March . I proceed to Paris and Berlin . While in Berlin , my friend , Lava , drive us to a Kandinsky exhibition in the Barberini Museum near Berlin in Potsdam , Germany . It was fantastic . Never seen so many Kandinsky in one museum .
I ’ve been dying to see some green - not evergreen light-green but spring putting surface as spring has been so harsh here in Santa Fe with the horrid winds . Both in Paris and Berlin spring was barely set out - not much green yet . After the Kandinsky exhibition , Lava drove to a garden in Potsdam that she thought I ’d wish .
It was the gullible I was starve . It was a humble informal garden vs the very conventional garden seen elsewhere in Paris and Germany . It was arranged so attractively ! It was a highlight while in Germany . I take a lot of photos while in the garden with it ’s meandering course .
While home and organizing my pic , I call my friend and asked if she screw the name of the garden . She said , Karl Foerster garden - I never cognise that while there . She did n’t really know who he was but I did .
The garden is over 100 age old and his house , nurseries and greenhouses and a beautiful bumpkinly birdhouse for dove on the property be there .
So who is Karl Foerster ? He is one of Germany ’s most famous botanists . He was a German gardener , gardener , garden writer , and garden philosopher . He bred over 350 new plant specimen including some delphiniums , phlox , and Karl Foerster John Reed grass that many of us in the states have in our perennial garden .
The story of Karl Foerster grass‘As the story goes , Karl was on a train when he saw the grass along the track . To seize the chance to pick up the specimen , Karl draw the emergency bracken , turn back the train , and then quick collected the specimen that now bears his name’-courtesy ofhttps://thedailygardener.org
My guess was he was the train operator to be capable to do that . While many gardeners have heard ofKarl Foerster Grass or Feather Reed Grass , I did n’t know the story , or where he was from or really anything about him except that he was one of the most famous botanists in Germany and had a grass named after him .
“ Grasses are the hair of mother earth . ”I eff this quote from him !
Karl keep his Jewish friends engage all through World War II state of war . After the war East Germany became under the ascendancy of the Soviets . Karl was allowed to have his garden and nurseries .
Karl Foerster grass was the Perennial Plant of the Year in 2001 . Karl ’s plant operation expectations and appreciation for down - sustentation spaces withyear - long seasonal interesthelped form theNew German Garden garden invention style . Karl Foerster garden had key signature plants : grasses , delphinium , and phlox.https://thedailygardener.org
Foerster ’s philosophy of planting is current today as we seek to create gardens that are friendly to wildlife and the environment .
He bred century of young recurrent plants - over 350 ! What concerned me was his influence of make his garden with year - long interest for every time of year , hence his garden was already in spring and i get to see it . I hear it is brilliant in the summertime and surrender but it was already beautiful to me in the beginning of spring .
Here are some photograph I train while there .
“ In my next biography , I ’d wish to be a gardener once again . The job was too crowing for just one life-time . ”
Karl Foerster
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