Horst fulfilled a dream. He built a city just for himself. He named it Saint Dahlia. A city with no cars, no traffic lights, no crosswalks, no traffic of any kind. A city of flowers, without houses, noisy people. In the Kaktus-Dahlien-Avenue, the 120 centimeter high "Aristocrat", incidentally glowing red and plentiful in bloom, was followed by the "Belle Dame". This was followed by "Carneval" (fire red, yellow tips). The head (boss) of Saint Dahlie had planted "Cheerio" and "Dentelle de Venise" on one side of the avenue. His interest in dahlias, his avenues punctuated by traffic islands (roundabouts!), which were themselves planted with dahlias, did not go unnoticed by the young people next door. The initial distrust increasingly turned into a certain mutual sympathy over time.
Manfred Fock, cult author of the garden gnome trilogy (Stuttgarter Zeitung), made a name for himself nationwide with his satires on the German garden world. His new book "Dahliengeflüster" will be published in 2023.
