The plans for the design of the landscape park were drawn up by Gustav Meyer (1816-1877), the royal court gardener working in Potsdam at the time.
According to current knowledge, the park is one of the few almost authentically preserved garden creations by the garden artist, who later became the first garden director in Berlin. Semlow Park, which was open to the public from the outset in the spirit of the Enlightenment, is to be seen as a place of education and upbringing in a spiritual proximity to the famous model of Wörlitz. In his landscaping of the park, Meyer included wide meadows, an extensive network of paths with magnificent views of the palace, striking individual trees and a system of ditches and ponds. Oak, chestnut, copper beech, lime and plane trees were among the trees used. Among the dendrological features are two bald cypresses planted in later times in the immediate vicinity of the pond. In spring, a carpet of wild crocuses, snowdrops and anemones enchants visitors every year.
A memorial stone, no longer preserved, was dedicated to the gardener Helmuth Lembke (1819-1892), who was in charge of the park at the time of its creation. However, a cast-iron cross still marks his grave in the churchyard.
