Special to Road Trips for Gardeners
By Bremen Tourism
From the end of April to the beginning of June, more than 2,000 varieties of rhododendron and azalea transform the 46 hectares of the Rhododendron Park in …

“Land in Sicht – 400 Years of Landscape Art” opens March 14, 2015, at the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art (pictured), Teerhof 20, Bremen, Germany.
Featuring pictures drawn from four centuries, the exhibition aims to …

Formal gardens are tucked behind the magnificent yellow and white Augustusburg Castle in Brühl, Germany.
Built in 1725 by Elector Clemens August, it was trashed by Napoleon’s troops in the early 19th Century. In 1815 the …

It’s hard to imagine a pedestrian shopping area in a European town without one or more flower stands. People buy their favorites to pot up indoors or display in a window box.
These pretty blooms were …

Often on her travels your Road Trips Gardener runs across bedding plants not common in the United States.
This time, it’s lithodora — seen here in Wismar, Germany, last spring.
According to Wikipedia, lithodora is a genus …

City centers all across Europe have flower stands. Most of them not only offer cut flowers, but bedding plants for window boxes and pots.
These colorful violas awaited customers in Lübeck, Germany, in April last year.
(Photo …

In Europe, the flowers on restaurant tables usually are fresh (rather than the fake fleurs in the U.S.).
These pink roses and a deep indigo hyacinth graced the table at the Katzen-Café in Bremen, Germany — …

Thinking of attending your first Chelsea Flower Show next spring? One easy way to deal with the logistics of the across-the-pond trip is to take an organized tour (then you don’t even have to worry …

Let yourself be dazzled by the “queen of flowers” at the ninth annual Rose Festival in the Bebenhausen Monastery, Tübingen, Germany (map). It’s set for June 29 and 30, 2013.
One of the most important Cistercian …

Lovely lavender asters, seen on an early October day in Bad Woershofen, a spa town in southern Germany.
Did you know they’re the flower for September birthdays? The genus aster includes some 600 species of …