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  ETTENBÜHL:  AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN GERMANY (SATIS SHROFF) Forty years ago Ettenbühl was a tract of agricultural land with meadows. It was turned into a five hectar English landscape and has now 26 garden space with over 100 special wood, thousands of roses and flowery bushes. It all began in 1975 as a private garden. In 1998 Gisela Seidel and her daughter Stephanie Körner decided to take the challenge and make something special out of Ettenbühl, a sleepy hamlet. That was the beginning of Landhaus Ettenbühl in 1999. An English garden without a native gardener? In the year 2000 a genuine English gardener and rose specialist named  John Scarman joined the team and he stayed till 2012. The landhouse grew and a restaurant, café and a gardening school added. Today, you have visitors from Switzerland, Germany and Alsace (France). You can saunter along Granny’s Walk, which has lovely roses, past the very English restaurant and café, and along the Yellow Brick Road. The tall Leyland cypresses h