Faurest, Kristin: Ten spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

Károlyi-kert

■ A rare moment in Károlyi-kert: no crowds o{ visitors

was flooded in 1775. From 1780—90 a new plan by György Janits called for empire-style vases ornamenting a stone wall and a dual alley lined with parterre. The vegetable gardens were still significant at this point, and in the middle an octagonal pavilion was designed. There were glasshouses, and a gardener’s house. There was a small English garden with a pond and winding paths.

In the 19th century the garden — which had of course until then been predominately Baroque in style — became transformed into an English landscape garden, with plants brought from the gardens at the palace in nearby Gödöllő, and other palace gardens. This was a typical transformation for palace gardens of the time that had happened at the Gödöllő palace (which had been the resort of the Empress Elizabeth, wife of Franz Josef) itself as well. There was a rich variety of rhododendrons, azalea, camellias, lilacs, acacia, date palms, orchids, tropical plants (many of which had to be kept in the

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