Little sister of the Chelsea Flower Show
Created: 05/26/2022Updated: 05/26/2022 18:26
On the banks of Lake Schliersee, the Garden Magic invites passionate gardeners on a voyage of discovery all about flowers, trees and herbs.
© Thomas Plettenberg
At the “Schliersee Garden Magic” show in the Kurpark, everything revolves around gardening for four days, based on the British model
Schliersee – At the stand of the Upper Franconian garden tool manufacturer Krumpholz, visitors watch how Hagen Mund forges red-hot steel.
"Derf I moi frogn: what's that?" says a woman, pointing to a corkscrew-like tool next to the anvil.
"It's a dandelion puller," explains Klaus Krumpholz, head of the manufactory that has existed since 1799.
His range includes around 400 hand-forged garden tools – from rose forks to joint knives and compost shovels.
For gardeners
Krumpholz is one of 37 exhibitors who have been covering the needs of passionate gardeners at the Schliersee Garden Magic since Ascension Day - or awakening wishes.
The horticultural association Schliersee put the show on its feet under the direction of Reiner Pertl.
Modeled on the famous Chelsea Flower Show in London, which Pertl loves so much and visits regularly, as Mayor Franz Schnitzenbaumer (CSU) explained at the opening.
"It may not be the Chelsea Flower Show, but it inspired Pertl."
Whereby: apart from the fact that it is not Prince Edward who is sniffing the roses here, the show is reminiscent of its London sister: knowledgeable visitors with sun hats stroll across the perfect lawn of the spa park.
They smell the magnificent “See you in pink” rose, talk shop about fruit tree grafting and have the Fischbachau-based company Weizenegger explain how lawn mower robots work.
The titles at the stand of the Schliersee book oasis make it clear which topics are on the minds of visitors: "Why isn't my lilac blooming?" is the name of a book.
Another: "Pruning garden plants properly."
At the stand of the Angermaier nursery from Bad Feilnbach, there are five different types of sage, including pineapple and tangerine sage.
"You can use it to flavor drinking water," explains Anna Angermaier.
As she speaks, an elderly lady approaches her: "Do you have hyssop?
I've been looking for hyssop for weeks!” she says, wringing her hands.
Unfortunately, Angermaier also has to disappoint her: "I focused on fuchsias, pelargoniums and begonias in the garden magic," she says.
After all, she promises that she will bring the herb to the next weekly market in Miesbach.
For teenagers
A few hundred meters from Angermaier's booth, in a separate area, there are 20 scarecrows.
For example, Chantal with a headscarf and straw-like hair.
"She's a lady and she's having a bad hair day," says one note.
Near her: Lucy Jenner.
She wears high heels, has red painted fingernails and a decent bust size.
"Kylie Jenner's new sister," says the note, "just like Kylie, she likes cosmetics." 80 students from Schliersee Middle School built the scarecrows and sent them into the race for the title of "Favorite Scarecrow".
All visitors can vote.
For children
Opposite the gallery of scarecrows, the Wiesseer gardener and landscaper Otto Reichl gives children an insight into landscape gardening.
Reichl and his trainees are just instructing two children to lay a mosaic pavement when a boy of about nine stands expectantly next to him.
The little one has discovered that you can drive an excavator here - and is shyly waiting to be asked.
"Do you like driving an excavator?" Reichl asks when he notices him.
He doesn't have to ask him that twice.
With shining eyes, he follows the trainee, whom Reichl has specially placed for him.
Into the gardening pleasure.
lunchtime concert
On Sunday, May 29, the final day of the garden magic, the baritone Karl B. Kögl and the Unterleiten musicians will give a concert from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - a foray from folk music to international evergreens.
The garden magic takes place up to and including Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Kurpark.
Hagen Mund forges red-hot steel into high-quality garden tools.
© Thomas Plettenberg
