Anthering herb garden festival
On August 15, the feast of “Maria Wurzweih”, the Anthering herb women and men celebrate their traditional herb garden festival. After the church service at 10:30 a.m. with the blessing of herbs and distribution of the herb bushes, lovingly homemade herbal products are offered for sale in the garden until 3:00 p.m.. There will also be culinary delicacies to refresh body and soul.
The herb garden festival is the highlight of the herb garden year. Throughout the year, the “herb witches” dry a wide variety of herbs and blend them into exquisite teas, as well as producing creams, oxalic oils, tinctures, fragrant herbal oils, herbal pillows and many other healthy herbal specialties. The day before the festival, fresh herbs are collected from nature and the garden and used to make up to 500 bunches and beautiful wreaths.
The diversity of the plants makes the Anthering herb garden something very special. More than 300 herbs are cultivated and cared for here. The medicinal herb area comprises 12 beds for respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, urinary tract, skin and hair, men’s and women’s ailments, immune system, nerves, bones and joints. In the cottage garden, vegetables and flowers grow together in harmony, just like in grandmother’s day. A large raised bed is planted with a wide variety of vegetables and matching herbs in mixed cultivation and the herb spiral displays a wide range of culinary herbs with special features such as spice tea, broad leaf cress and spice fennel.
Visitors are invited to enjoy the garden with all its bright colors and tart and sweet scents. The flowers attract numerous bees, bumblebees and butterflies. The herb garden is freely accessible at all times and invites you to look, sniff, discover and relax. The little break under the lime tree next to the frog pond is a blessing for body, mind and soul.
Copyright of the pictures: Herb Garden Anthering
People in the picture from left:
- 1* Anthering herbal consecration: Paula Lebesmühlbacher, Hilde Frauenlob
- 2* Anthering herbal consecration: Frieda Aigner, Gitti Herr, Gisela Jell, Lydia Lebesmühlbacher, Elisabeth Stadler, Olga Humer
- 3* Anthering Herb Garden Festival: Erika Ehinger, Maria Lebesmühlbacher, Anneliese Steckholzer, Erna Hechenberger, Sabina Mistlberger, Gerlinde Stopper, Elisabeth Maier, Romana Haderer