Folly Arborétum
Folly Arborétum—often called a living “pine museum”—was created in the early 1900s by Dr. Folly Gyula, a Pécs physician who served both as the Zsolnay family’s family doctor and as an industrial doctor for the Zsolnay works. In 1905, he planted the first evergreens here on the south side of the Kisörsi-hegy, close to Lake Balaton. Today, the private collection is set within the Balaton Uplands National Park as a specially protected area, and it brings together three plant populations of different ages. The grounds include an expanded arboretum and connected woodland where, after the state takeover, the Folly family regained the land in 1995. Botanist and dendrologist Gerd Krüssman later praised the collection, comparing it to “an earring box”—small, yet each piece is a treasure. …
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