Symphony of rose scent and color at Floriade 2012

In NRW the World photo contest Garden Expo Floriade 2012 Venlo is a garden of Niederkrüchten among the top 10 garden pictures for the month of July. Helga Götzenberger (66) is the creator of this little paradise in Varbrook. She loves old garden roses and boxwood hedges.

The passionate gardener Helga Götzenberger redesigned lawns, a pond dug by hand, pulled the Buxus itself. In the meadow flowers bloom on the left should, as nature has sown it. Photo: Busch

If visitors to the "open garden gate" take a step through the blue wickets, they remain mostly taken the picture and enjoy the heavenly glory. The gazes admiringly about a dream of the garden, every breath sucks a heady scent of roses, your eyes can hardly capture all the details and look hard enough.

1650 square meters of own making

Helga Götzenberger (66) was designed in about four decades, the 1650 square feet around their house themselves, supported by her husband Hans (71). Photos of the most beautiful corners were already published in a gardening magazine. Now is a rose garden idyll at the sky-blue house among the ten most beautiful images in the July photo contest for the Floriade garden friends in NRW.

That someone with a "green thumb" live shows, already rising to the house of his front yard with roses, phylum, hollyhocks and boxwood balls. The staircase adorns the entrance to the old roof tiles and Wurz on balls, which has formed Hans Götzenberger concrete, peat and sand.

On this mixture is also growing a green fuzz of moss. Right overcomes a boxwood-lined path to the blue gate, past the old rose varieties like Charles de Mills (1790), the white-flowered Mdm. Hardy (1856), the pink Ipsilante (1821) Mme Isaac Pereire or the (1881). The roughly 13-year-old rank-rose Paul's Himalayan Musk climbs three feet high from her arm-thick floor up into the mountain ash.

The garden house on the competition's been playing house for the son. Photo: NN

The wood floor covered with mulch from grass clippings and shredded. "We are naturally aware of gardening and have not groomed flower beds," says Helga Götzenberger."Grooming" they just have their boxwood hedges and balls, run through the garden. For the cut in the spring, she needs 14 days from dawn to dusk. On the other side of the house of modern roses bloom alongside the 15th presumably from the -Century "Maxima", interspersed with zinnias and astilbe.

The Snow Waltz in White Rose spans an arc, another arch forms the garden lover, shoots straight hedges. A multi-storey hotel with insect-plant green roof stone is even built. Under the cherry tree is a vegetable patch plowed. Behind the big light blue house's garden is under three hundred year old oak trees grow up to the fence, where winds and beans. At the back have the compost pile and a wood fireplace into place, about nursery fields, the view extends to the Merbecke steeple.

The particularly intense in the fall and spring gardening makes Helga Götzenberger fun that would reduce the aid of a gardener only. "If I had created something new, I go the next day at 7 clock in the garden and enjoy my work," she says. That her son has become botanists (who is currently working at the university in Estonia), is no accident."The garden is my life," says the 66-year-old.

Vote Until Sunday 21 August, everyone can under www.floriade.de / fotowettbewerb choose his favorites. The photo with the most votes wins the monthly fee and has a presence on the World Gardening Expo 2012 in Venlo. Africans from all monthly gain an overall winner will be chosen.