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Chalet-villages Edging Lakes: Innsbruck is the hub of costumed Tyrolean life and charm, "capital of e Austrian Alps," but it has also a great deal of culture and art. Its ofkirche, with the bronze statues by Peter Vischer and others, called lerfect" by Thorvaldsen, is of the first rank, and the Hofburg, whose mrch this is, constitutes a major sight of Austria. As a lovely glint in its isemble, don't overlook the Silver Chapel, with a small 16th-century organ hich is played for the public each Wednesday evening in summer.
From many months of summer wanderings in Austria, I think of verse wonders, appealing to every taste.
Do you like chalet-villages edging lakes, that are set amid towering Alps? Give thought to these: Pertisau on the Achensee, locale of "Sanger's Circus," in Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph; Zell am See, on the Zellersee, handsome and a bit sophisticated; three gems of the Salz-kammergut, namely Traunkirchen on the Traunsee, St. Wolfgang (with the original White Horse Inn) on the Wolfgangsee and photogenic Hallstatt (with its visitable salt mountain above it) on the Hallstattersee; and three equal gems, which I have mentioned, in warm Carinthia, Velden, on the Worthersee, Millstatt on the Millstattersee (named for a thousand pagan statues, Mille Statuae, of ancient legend), and tiny, quiet, almost-lost Techendorf, on the Weissensee.
With lakes that are like inland seas for size and depth, with canals plied by passenger ships tying these lakes together through verdant countryside, with cities of great erudition, like Uppsala and Lund, and villages of living art, like Orrefors, with Hanseatic Visby, better than its build-up, with castles ancient and modern, with standards of travel comfort and travel eating that capture all comers, Sweden has much of many things.
some cases, edging is purely ornamental, but in others it s needed to keep surface materials such as gravel and bark n place, and to keep soil from overflowing from the beds.
NOT ALL surfaces need to be edged but it often adds the finishing touch. Use bricks or tiles or, for a more informal, rustic effect, logs. Plants themselves can also be used as edging. Low clipped hedges of box go particularly well with brick or stone surfaces. Lavender is a more decorative choice and it can also be clipped into neat shapes.
Use edging around flowerbeds to stop the soil overflowing on to surrounding areas, especially gravel or paths laid with chipped bark. Edging also helps prevent the edges of hard surfaces breaking away or sinking.
Bricks set in a number of ways are commonly used for edging, as is stone, but you can also use logs in a woodland setting. Tiles also serve the purpose well. |
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