Schachen Alpine Garden, Germany

[Otto Fauser]

Phillippe , your wonderful photos bring back fond memories of afew glorious days spent up on the Schachen  in the summer of 1961 . The Alpine Department of the Munich Bot . Garden was then under Wilhelm Schacht. WE too walked up starting at Schloss Elmau , quite easy when one is young and stayed at the Alm ,just opposite the gate to the Garten . and marvelled at the folly of King Ludwig's  Jagdschloss .

[Luc Gilgemyn]

wonderful pictures Philippe !
Thanks so much for sharing ! 

[Maggi Young]

At the recent Alpines 2011 event I was pleased to meet SRGC member Jenny Wainwright-Klein, a horticulturist based in Munich.

It is good to see that  Jenny, who has special connections to the Schachen Alpine Garden having worked there every summer for 15 years, has begun a Diary for the website of the Alpine Garden Society.
You can see her Schachen Garden Diary 'News from the Alpine Garden on the Schachen' here: http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/Schachen/+May+/346/

 
You may also, having been excited by Philippe's photos and report, be interested in a report on a similar visit to Scahahen from a Kew gardener..... http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/katie-visits-munichs-alpengarten.htm