Overview
This garden explores the theme of "making the invisible visible" by playing with reflections and how things are seen and perceived. It is built around a design that combines contemporary architecture and the use of indigenous plants.
Gardner
- VERDA Landschaftsbau – Soleuvre
The garden
At the centre of the garden is a steel structure that was designed and built in Luxembourg. The structure itself is embellished with reflective elements that are positioned so as to capture and reflect images of the surrounding plants.
The interplay of reflections changes how the garden is perceived depending on the angle from which it is viewed, creating an ever-changing visual experience.
A pathway made from blocks of solid wood winds its way through beds of indigenous flowering plants.
The deliberately slender and unobtrusive three-dimensional structure blends into the landscape, enhancing the natural surroundings. All the materials selected for the project are reusable, reflecting the designers' intent to implement a circular-economy approach – whereas in selecting the plants, the designers prioritised low-maintenance local species.
Materials
- Structure made from mild steel
- Dibond-type reflective panels
- Larch-wood blocks
- Spruce mulch
Plants
- Achillea millefolium
- Calamagrostis "K.F."
- Eringyum triportum
- Allium Mont Blanc
- Stipa tenuifolia
- Stachys bizantina
- Gypsophilla paniculata
- Gaura lindheimeri
- Anemone hupehensis
- Eremurus bungei
- Verbena bonariensis
- Pennisetum alop.
- Parrotia persica
