Past events

August 2008
"Mercato verde"  is a nursery in Chur, Grisons, specialising in all sorts of fig trees (40 varieties) which yield good table figs ripening even north of the Alps. We were offered a guided tour in late morning and we visited sites with dry stone walls built by our member Gerhard Stoll and his team in the neighbourhood.

May 2008
The Institute for Environment and Natural Resources organised a market with rarities in Wädenswil on the premises of the "Hochschule Wädenswil". At this garden fair we were able to compare and buy plants from several exhibitors/vendors, walk through the gardens and join a lecture about Salvias. In the afternoon we visited the 70000 m2 show grounds of the famous garden designer "enea". This show garden is a laboratory to test out all the unconventional ideas in garden architecture and to find out how plants develop under new conditions.

November 2007
At the AGM in Athens we learnt a lot about The Dry Garden. One of the workshops participants could choose from was conducted by our Swiss member Gerhard Stoll and was about Dry-stone walling in a garden next to the MGS garden of Sparoza (Peania).

June 2007
Barbara Pöschel, a renowned pelargonium specialist, showed us her greenhouse and gave a talk with a lot of practical advice about pelargoniums, their history, scent, cultivation and use in cooking. She sends out mail orders in smaller quantities. For details contact Ursula Brunner on +41 56 441 74 85.

From Winterthur we drove on 10 km to Weisslingen where we were invited to visit a member ’s garden in rural surroundings. The roses were at their best.

Photographs by Ursula Brunner.