View allAll Photos Tagged Note4
I used my phone more than my camera on this trip, because of the threat of rain.
Preacher traveling by horse back.
Brussels.
Sobieski park
Created at the beginning of the last century, this is above all a park for walking and recreation; it is also a part of the Brussels “green network” that, in this capacity, plays an ecological role in the Brussels landscape. SobieskiPark was not originally a public park. It was part of the royal gardens of Leopold II and produced fruit for the court.
A wooded bed runs along the two streets that border the garden. A 3000-square-metre body of water, now colonised by numerous palmipeds, has been excavated in the lower portion.
In the centre of the garden, some tall stock fruit trees have been planted in a large mowed meadow. This leads to the upper portion, where espaliered fruit trees and a very beautiful bed of rhododendrons grow.
A colony of Egyptian geese lives around the pond, and a fox has chosen to live on the site. Four plant specimens are on the Brussels list of remarkable trees. Others are worth a detour, such as a magnificent catalpa and an impressive weeping willow.
The meadow is only mowed once or twice a year, and thus has become a natural space that contrasts with the rest of the park, maintained by the gardeners of Brussels Environment.