Arboretum Tesarske Mlynany - rhododendron season

what beautiful flowers and plants, lovely to see the blue sky, thanks katarina

What a beautiful place Katarina the rhoddies are spectacular and the peony was so pretty, Thank you :))

Wow...Thank you Katarina, what a lot you packed in there for us. Some stunning pictures in there. I like the lions very much..but the whole place is amazing.

...unfortunately, I have so many photos and some of them it wasn´t possible to upload...

It must have taken you ages.

Lol. Almost!

took me all evening to upload mine!!

@Niverdeen, I am glad you liked it :)))

What lovely photos of a beautiful place. Marvellous expressions on the lions' faces aren't they?

Lovely photo's Katarina, its obviously a grand place to visit and see all the lovely trees and shrubs, thankyou for telling us the history as well, very much appreciated....

Can we have the story of comrade Michurin and his miraculous stick please Katarina. :))

Quite a tour did it take all day to walk around,Very beautiful and well looked after, the Paeonia looks like P.Suffruticosa 'The Rock' except it should be pure white not pink.

@Michurin - famous Russian breeder. He never had his own children but created hundreds of sorts of fruit trees which were resistant to cold Russian climate. I like his sentence "Defeat is not a shame. Fear from experiments is shame."

@Bjs it IS a one day tour. I walked there for couple of hours, but still did not have time (and force) to go also to the section of Norther American and European flora. Next time :)
Actually I was astonished by that peony. It was shrub almost 2 metres high. I think the flowers were white, that pink shadow was just around the center. Does P. Suffruticosa "The Rock" grows up to 2 metres?

fantastic blog.Lovely pictures of all the wonderful colourful flowers well done:)))))

Thank you Mark. I am glad you like it. It took me one full day to make this blog. I slept like a baby :)))

Katarina The largest I have is about 1.5 meters so if it has trees around it will easily reach that height

I did not know that before. It was just beautiful :)

Thank you for sharing your day out with us. I love to see masses of healthy flowering rhododendrons like this. Hearing the history added to the pleasure and I look forward to seeing your next tour of the other parts of the garden.

Thank you very much, Steragram. I am happy to hear that people enjoyed it :)

What a beautiful blog - thank you for sharing your day out, Katarina! I love the shapes of the Acers in the Japanese part, and all the lovely Rhodos :))

Wonderful Blog Kat, lovely pics too, it looks a lovely place to go, i really liked that oak leaf pic....

Thank you Sheilabub - one more photo of old Japan Acer uploaded only for you :)
Thank you Surreylad :) You probably know that oak trees are considered to be the most "parental" of all trees. For many well known reasons...

Thank you for a fantastic blog Katarina. Rhododendrons are my favourite shrub. Havent any luck this year with them...sad face... I planted two in my new garden and we had a very dry spell.. it must have affected the formation of the buds.

Exactly the same here. Mine are not flowering, no matter if they were planted 10 years or 2 years ago. Some even had very sad leaves. I just fertilized them in March, will do once more in June and take care for them during dry spells. I hope next year will be better.

Lovely pics Katrina, and what a beautiful place to visit....thanks for taking me on the tour:-)