I teach from Monday to Thursday, so Friday is my day for running errants. I had to go to town and combined my trip with a visit to the local botanical garden. The weather has turned, it’s become greyer and colder. It’s still too warm for November but it looks suitably autumnal at least.
The seats are still out but they are more decorative than utilitarian at this point.
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It used to be a private mansion. The building and the surrounding garden still belongs to the family company but nowadays the garden is open to the public on most days and a botanical garden of some renown. Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof in Weinheim.
Not just any old iris but an iris reticulata by the name of “Edward”.
The “Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof” (trial garden) is in itself a speciality: a garden that is at once a garden showcasing plants and presenting them to the public as well as being a scientific institute which valuates plants in a natural environment regarding their position and growth and compatibility with other plants.
More information about the Hermannshof can be found here.
Linked to One Word Sunday: Speciality.
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