Bezaubernde Gärten im Salzkammergut

Arrival

Garden Goisern: Sense of aesthetics

The 2,300-square-metre area of the Goiserer Gardenfreunde has many interesting discoveries. For one thing, there is the abundance of fruit trees grown by the experimentalist landlord himself, who also has a small collection of cacti. His wife is in charge of decorating, transforming the garden with alternately flowering plants into a veritable firework of shapes and colours. Feather poppies, acanthus and purple bellies, alongside sunflowers, daylilies and astilbes, make for a bloom that never dries up. But the two also let grapes ripen and delight in magnificent vegetables in their carefully tended garden.

Drive to Hallstatt - lunch break
Walk from the bus terminal towards Echerntal to the garden – approx. 20-30 min.

Garden Hallstatt: The miracle in the Echerntal

Whether it's her 30 or so peonies, lily tail or steppe candle, the salmon-coloured digitalis or her dwarf-flowered white wildrose, the gardener loves the lush variety of colours and shapes. The garden at the entrance to the Echerntal is a total work of art from selected plants, which she sets and combines with great taste. A flowering wonder in a place where there is no sunshine between the end of September and mid-February, the plants seem all the more lavish in summer. Fertilised with primordial rock flour and horse manure, effective micro-organisms, compost, nettle and leg wellies, they thrive and stay true to it. From the roof of the wooden huts, Peter and Peter have been watching over the gardens for 15 years.

Garden in Pfandl: an imaginative garden with design objects

A sense of humour characterizes this garden, a certain playfulness and a lot of love for nature. For 25 years, the two garden owners have been working on this site full of surprises, with a glass garden, a beer tree, a marble garden, a prosecco arbor and many other imaginative design objects. Bizarre finds of wood, huge boulders, a barrel as a garden shed, but also a shadow garden with funky or rhododendrons and roses, various fragrant plants and a "Rialto bridge" are the eye-catchers in this original garden artwork.

Strobl Garden with Pond: In the Kingdom of the Pond

Home to yellow and pink water lilies, the roughly 1,300-square-foot complex is the result of careful planning. Lush perennials, hydrangeas, phlox, bellflowers and rhododendrons alternate with otters, snakes and rattlesnakes. Chinese grass interrupts the blooms. A wine arboretum and a Mediterranean-inspired seating area add a special accent to the vegetable garden. Mangroves line the house, the arboretum protected by wisteria. The most beautiful views come from the upper southeast corner, where a bench invites gazing and an artificial stream flows into the pond. New garden spaces open up at the back, filled with fruit trees, plants and a rose garden.

Lunch break
Sailing from Strobl to St. Wolfgang
Coffee enjoyment in the coffee workshop in St. Wolfgang

Alpengarten Bad Aussee: The diversity of alpine plants:

Spread over 12,000 square metres, the Alpengarten Bad Aussee is home to numerous species of alpine plants, perennials and woodlands, as well as plant rarities from all over the world. Native plants such as Alpine aster, silver yew, and the mountain knob are the focus of the presentation, while medicinal plants, aromatic herbs, fragrant plants, cushion perennials, orchids and many other beauties are also presented. A tuff stone hill shows the variety of stone quarried plants of the genus "Saxifraga." In June, the garden is in full bloom and the stone garden area glows in all colours. Guided tours and time for self-discovery.

Lunch break

Kaiservilla Park: Imperial Parkland

The earthly sky of an emperor presents itself as a jewel of English horticulture The park as a place of relaxation, privacy, deceleration, away from the courtly ceremony, this is the park of the Kaiservilla in Bad Ischl. The fusion of parkland as "idealized nature" and surrounding "wild" mountains characterizes the 5-hectare complex, which was the site of the ÖO Landesgartenschau in 2015. Winding paths, loosely grouped groups of trees and romantic-looking resting and viewing areas characterize the complex. It is aimed at an intertwining of nature and architecture against the picturesque backdrop of the mountains.

Then walk through the parks of Bad Ischl (Kurpark, Sisipark, Evangelischer Pfarrgarten).

Next. Guided tour of the Imperial Villa - Duration d. Tour approx. 45 min.

Over many decades into the 20th century became European history in the imperial villa
Bad Ischl became the “secret capital” of the powerful Danube monarchy.
During a 45-minute guided tour, you will feel the special flair of bygone times and
Interesting and personal facts about the life of the imperial family.