Germany
Award winning perennial plantings in a carpark... how very German.
Nov 24, 2019
Bettina Jaugstetter (Germany) has created an award winning garden in the carpark of an industrial park. A triumph of low maintenance and high wow-factor. Visit this garden with us on our New Naturalism Tour.
Cutting edge planting. Where?
Sep 24, 2019
Situated on a former American Army barracks, the recently created Sheridan Park is built around a long sinuous spine of paths, which split and rejoin like a braided river. Each of the consequent ‘islands’ is then planted with a different style of naturalistic planting, some based on grasses, others on flowering perennials, and still others...
Just give me a year
May 2, 2019
It’s completely baffling to me how English, American (and, frankly, therefore Australian) gardeners and designers have remained profoundly ignorant of the rigorous research being carried out in Germany, focussing on ecologically responsible perennial planting. A lot of it has occurred at Weihenstephan, just outside of Munich. Check out this ten minute video of my first...