Castle garden, Meersburg, March 29, 2015.
I’m sorry that I had no porch for you on Sunday; we spent a long weekend in the town of Meersburg on Lake Constance, about an hour and a half south of Stuttgart.
Aside from its lakefront location (and a beautiful view of the Swiss Alps across the water), the town’s principal feature is the medieval Alte (old) Burg — Germany’s oldest inhabited castle.*
Its sweet little garden, tucked along a high wall, seems to reflect the presence of the castle’s most distinguished resident, the romantic poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. She frequently stayed there in the 1840s, when her brother-in-law owned it.
Her pretty rooms with their floral wallpapers have been carefully preserved — she died there in 1848.
You can see the position of the garden along the castle walls in this Wikipedia photo.
*Sections date as early as the 7th century.
enclos*ure 
Glad to see color makes a comeback to enclos*ure!
Color is returning to the landscape . . . also, unpacking is finished.
I wish … hoping to get to unpacking next weekend.
And your garden?
Hi Diana,
Good luck with your unpacking — it’s no fun until you get to the decorating phase.
Not much going on in our garden. I’m waiting for warmer weather. But our back looks into a forest, which is fun to watch change as spring begins.
Lots of pruning and greenery makes a perfect garden for me.
I think pruning and clipping are my favorite garden tasks. This was such a peaceful little place, tucked into a rather gloomy castle and looking out on (that day) a stormy lake.