Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln

This guide to the Flora und Botanischer Garten in Cologne follows Peter Joseph Lenné, the Prussian king's garden director, as he takes on the site at seventy-three in eighteen sixty-two and lays out three different European garden styles around an iron-and-glass winter garden meant to rival London's Crystal Palace. It traces the garden's fall from a celebrated opening in eighteen sixty-four through occupying troops turning the winter garden into a tennis court and bombs leveling the complex in nineteen forty-three. Walk the restored cascade and parterre in front of you as you listen.