To all croconuts and other enthusiasts,
last year the club "Pro Düsseldorf e.V" realized a project to create a new attraction for Düsseldorf. Paragon for this idea was the famous castle park of Husum were about 4 Mio crocus flower annually. It was initial created 400years ago by monks.
Last autuum, from Sep. 22nd to November 7th., 5 Mio(!) crocus corms, a mix of blue C. tommanianus & C. vernus, have been planted with the help of 2500 volunteers (school classes, hobby gardeners, club members ect.) and an planting machine under the advice from professional municipal gardeners on the "Rheinpark" meadows. About 500.000 corms had to be laid by hand due to the large trees roots.
The "Rheinpark" is limited between the two main bridges "Oberkassler Brücke" and Theodor-Heuss-Brücke" in the center of Düsseldorf.
Unbelieveable 25 tons of crocus corms and ~200 corms per m² have been spread.
This 25000 m² large sized and unique 1300m long "blue wave band", symbolizing the Rhine river waves, makes already in the 1st spring season a spectacular show and will certainly become a real attraction for the next coming years.
The cost were said to be 100.000 Euros, the largest ever placed single order to a Dutch bulb supplier (Tuberbulb export).
Please study the plan (acrobat reader.pdf) and enjoy the pictures.
May it motivate you to visit Düsseldorf and enjoy of this phantastic sight. Try the international restaurants and pubs of "the longest bar of the world" in the Düsseldorf Altstadt and drink local brands of its famous dark bitter "Altbier".
A "must" is to finish your pub tour with "Killepitsch" the famous herb liquor or go shopping and may meet the nicest attractive Top Models on the "Koe" (Königsallee).
Or visit the "Aquazoo" or the numerous famous art museums.
Or lift up on the 234m high TV-Tower with an extraordinary round view. You can see the dome of Cologne from there!
Or or or...
