Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle at Merano, South Tyrol, Italy

[ruweiss]

During our holidays in the Dolomites we took the chance to visit this famous place, stated
as Italy's most beautiful garden. The mild climate there allows the cultivation of many tender
plants, a limonaia with a fine collection of citrus plants gets covered and heated during the
frosty season, there is also a place for cactii and succulents with the same facilities.
Due to the hot weather at our stay we were not able to visit all the places in this beautiful
garden, but we will be back in an other time.

[ruweiss]

More pictures
Zitronatzitrone is the fruit from which the candied lemon peel is made.

[Paddy Tobin]

Rudi,

This seems an amazing garden. I adore the lotus flowers.

Paddy

[Gail]

Fantastic Rudi, thank you so much for posting.  I love the lotus too.

[ruweiss]

Gail and Paddy, thank you for your friendly comments.
Here are some closeups from the lotus flowers.

[Gail]

Oh, thank you so much - so beautiful.

I managed to germinate some seed once but lost the plants in their first winter.

[Paddy Tobin]

Beautiful, Rudi,

I saw a lovely planting in the Villa Carlota on Lake Maggiore in early July but only one plant was in flower at the time, such a disappointment.

Paddy

[David Nicholson]

Lovely set of pictures Rudi. That's another too add to my longgggggg list of places I must visit.

[Maggi Young]

What a wonderful place!
So much to see there, with such a variety of plantings.
The high viewpoint is very useful for some of these stunning photos - but I am very glad just to sit here and enjoy them , rather than have to walk on to that perilous viewing platform , in pic 198, myself! 

How old would the castle be, Rudi? It looks to be in perfect condition.

[cohan]

What a wonderful place!
So much to see there, with such a variety of plantings.
The high viewpoint is very useful for some of these stunning photos - but I am very glad just to sit here and enjoy them , rather than have to walk on to that perilous viewing platform , in pic 198, myself! 

indeed, an interesting place--the winter covered areas are esp interesting..
i quite agree with the second part of maggi's comment!

[ruweiss]

What a wonderful place!
So much to see there, with such a variety of plantings.
The high viewpoint is very useful for some of these stunning photos - but I am very glad just to sit here and enjoy them , rather than have to walk on to that perilous viewing platform , in pic 198, myself! 

indeed, an interesting place--the winter covered areas are esp interesting..
i quite agree with the second part of maggi's comment!
In the year1300 a small castle was built at this place, the Trauttmansdorff dynasty began to build
a bigger object in 1543 and lived there until 1846. Various owners used it until the Provincial government
of Bolzano made the Museum of Tourism in these rooms, surrounded by these splendid gardens of the
Merano Botanical Garden.
More information see www.trauttmansdorff.it

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for that link ( http://www.trauttmansdorff.it/   ) to the site, Rudi.