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What gardens are , should , and might be is a constant source of argumentation among professionals and amateur garden makers . Twenty - one old age ago , theInternational Festival of Gardens at Domaine de Chaumont - sur - Loire , France started to reply some of those questions with its one-year display case of conceptual garden . Designers , architect , horticulturalists and artists there have made more than 580 gardens over the years that have push the boundaries of garden aim . The installment are meant to freely poke at at the bounds of the potential . They are not the short lived theatrical show gardens of Chelsea and Philadelphia heyday render , these are existent build landscapes of the imagination . Each year , the composition is different . For 2014 , the theme of the Chamount garden will be “ Gardens of the Deadly Sins ” .
Cesar Gourdon and Amélie Busin , La Jetee , ( the Pier ) 2013 . Photo by : Chaumont - sur - Loire International Garden Festival . SEE MORE pic OF THESE GARDENS
Two venues in North America cover this dialog , Les Jardins de Metis / Reford Gardens in Quebec and CornerStone in California . In Canada , the selection for the 2014 were announced in early December for the 15th loop ofthe International Festival of Gardens at Les Jardins de Metis / Reford Gardens . North of Quebec City , it has mounted new garden every yr since 2000 , based on an overt rival that encourage interdisciplinary collaboration . The fete has attracted many U.S. designers and architects who have win sites and built experimental gardens include Ken Smith , Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . Some garden remain for years after they are build , others are more temporary .
Since 2004,CornerStonein Sonoma , Calif. , has strived to obnubilate the line of work between art , intent and landscape painting , and to produce an environs that allows both the decorator ’s and the public ’s imaginations to soar . Its newest addition to theprevious gardensthat have been installed on its nine landed estate was produce by clothes designer and sculptorSuzanne Biaggi . environmental science of Place for Phil Biaggi electrical fuse memory , art , landscape painting , environmental science , and sustainable design into a cohesive whole that challenge visitor . Inspired by the regions original wetland , Biaggi says about the garden ’s concept , “ It play up the importance of bionomic balance to the future of our planet , and is about restoring what was once here - wetland , and it ’s about what is here now -vineyards … ”
ATK Engineering , Bryophta Technologies and pupil from Harvard Graduate School of Design , Surface Deep , 2011 - 13 . Photo by : Reford Gardens , Susan Cohan . SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THESE garden
A wandering path border with a rivulet and gallery of wetland plants guide visitant through the distance . hedging deliberately blank out and reveal sight . There are tranquil situation to stop and rest along the route that Biaggi hop “ that visitant slow down enough to contemplate and marvel what the garden hold and teaches . ” SculptorRegan Gentrywas chosen by the designer to create a feature film piece for the garden . Inspired by the California Buckeye , a aboriginal wetland tree , Gentry create a life size conducting wire tree that also inspired the grapevine vine that Biaggi constructed as another garden feature that is a visual nod to what has happen to the native landscape painting .
An overview of Suzanne Biaggi’sEcology of Place for Phil Biaggi . exposure by : Marion Brenner , Laura Reoch , Scott Hess . SEE MORE picture OF THESE GARDENS
As a landscape designer , Biaggi exercise sustainable invention that always harkens back to the environmental science of its web site . Of her garden at CornerStone , she reflects , “ The creation of this space has further my awareness of place and how it changes over clock time with how it is used , but the environmental science of the space does n’t really interchange . The area is still a wetland . If we honour the ecology of a web site the cycle is not broken and we are sour in harmoniousness with nature . When we try out to impose our indigence on a site , it ’s really an uphill battle and Mother Nature will gain ground in the end . ”
