Paulownia tomentosa
Otto C. Banninger's Gottfried Keller memorial (1964) is situated at the "Wabengarten", a honeycomb water installation, one of the few relics of the 1959 garden exhibition, G59. It had been constructed for a temporary exhibition, so reductions for bad foundations and water loss occurred in the less-dense pools. A few steps from the shore there's another rare plant in Zürich, "Taxodium distichum" having pneumatophores, originating from Mississippi River up to Missouri. At the marina, "Alnus glutinosa" were planted after the flood of May 1999, and because the high water table in the vicinity of the lake gets better than their commitments, a group of "Paulownia tomentosa". In 2004 the city council ("Stadtrat", Zürich's executive organ) decided to develop a master plan for this area of the lakeside promenades. Because the adjacent lake police ("Wasserschutzpolizei der Stadt Zürich") planned a new building, and the public access to Mythenquai had to be reorganized, a general upgrading and redevelopment of the whole area was planned, extending to the parking facilities and Strandbad Mythenquai, Zürich's only sand-beach lido.