What can be done against this plague? Monitoring in the castle park should provide information. Landscape architect Vera Donata Wesinger can tell you a lot about heat stress, semi-parasites and the heartbeat of linden trees.
“I don’t see anything except mistletoe anymore,” jokes Vera Donata Wesinger. The 31-year-old completed a geography degree and then studied landscape architecture at the TUM in Freising. Since 2022 she has been working at the Bavarian Palace Administration in the gardens department, where, among other things, she is responsible for special projects such as “mistletoe monitoring”. This is a joint pilot project between the garden department and its “Tree Management/Competence Base Munich” as well as the State Institute for Forestry and Forestry. A walk in the Nymphenburg Palace Park, through the avenue on the central canal with its more than 400 linden trees. Some of them are over 200 years old, meaning they date from the time when Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell redesigned the gardens.