Rhododendron Park
Hillside rhododendron garden in a former royal orchard, ablaze with blooms in late spring.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Rhododendron Park in Dresden-Wachwitz is about the people who made and tended it, starting with a plant breeder, a nursery manager and a landscape designer who turned an old royal orchard into a teaching garden in their spare time. It follows the collections they gathered, including a nineteenth-century Saxon nursery family's hardy hybrids, and the very different crews who looked after the slope after nineteen ninety. Best heard on a path beside the older shrubs.
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