il giardino di Palazzo Schifanoia a Ferrara .234
Up the Garden Path .233
Up the Garden Path
A
little anthology
Laura Stoddart
1999
Orion Publishing Group Ltd, London
Un
libretto illustrato dedicato alla casa ed al giardino con splendidi
acquerelli e frasi tratte dalla letteratura, in cui compare un
giardino verde azzurro ed una casa di carta, una casa in
assonometria, una in filigrana che si apre ad un altro giardino fatto
di fiori piu grandi delle persone, che sono anche piu' piccole
dell'annaffiatoio e del rastrello lasciato vicino ad un libro su cui
ci si puo' sdraiare, accanto ad un orto -in un'altra pagina perche'
in quella di prima non ci sta- ed un campo da tennis, una magnolia
dalla quale un uomo non sa staccare gli occhi e frasi come questa
dalla Ballata
Sonnambula
di Federico Garcia Lorca: "Verde
que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas.".
il Giardino del Sollievo ADO, Ferrara .230
Questo e' il Giardino del Sollievo, il giardino della nuova sede della Fondazione ADO di Ferrara, la Casa del Sollievo: chiome di querce, tigli, melograni, foglie e boschi, tutti quelli visti, in uno, una sola foglia basta alla vista e al viaggio. Ho voluto creare un ennesimo bosco, sempre immaginazione certo, identico a tutto cio' che ci e' caro, cosi' che lo si veda ancora.
Hampstead Heath, aprile .259
amatissimo Savall per Andrea .258
che meraviglioso giardino
come possa levarsi questo suono ad accompagnare?
quando due corde sono prese insieme e tenute dalla prima che era sola e solamente in attesa e giu' per il pendio soffice velocissimo d'erba da un altissimo
che dura e corre e non si stanca perche' giunto a casa
un abbraccio Andrea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHtHCDdWiwU
come possa levarsi questo suono ad accompagnare?
quando due corde sono prese insieme e tenute dalla prima che era sola e solamente in attesa e giu' per il pendio soffice velocissimo d'erba da un altissimo
che dura e corre e non si stanca perche' giunto a casa
un abbraccio Andrea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHtHCDdWiwU
8 alberi per l'ADO .256
mani aperte per una fonte .255
Un blocco di marmo e' stato scavato per la profondita' di alcuni centimetri secondo una pendenza variabile a partire da un perimetro circolare irregolare, piu' e meno levigato nel suo incontrare la superficie piatta del blocco.
Roberto si chiama il marmista che ha lavorato il parallelepipedo di Travertino.
Le mani aperte di Roberto
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"garden me" / A writing about a wished frontier for the natural gardening
Ecological Planting Design
Ecological Planting Design
Drifts / Fillers (Matrix) / Natural Dispersion / Intermingling with accents/ Successional Planting / Self seedingWhat do these words mean? Some principles of ecological planting design. (from the book: "A New Naturalism" by C. Heatherington, J. Sargeant, Packard Publishing, Chichester)
Real structural plants marked down into the Planting Plan. The other plants put randomly into the matrix: No. of plants per msq of the grid, randomly intermingling (even tall plants). Succession through the year.
Complete perennial weed control.
High planting density. Close planting allows the plants to quickly form a covering to shade out weeds.
Use perennials and grasses creating planting specifications that can be placed almost randomly.
Matrix: layers (successional planting for seasonal interest) of vegetation that make up un intermingling (random-scattering) planting scheme: below the surface, the mat forming plants happy in semi-shade, and the layer of sun-loving perennials.
Plants are placed completely randomly: planting individual plants, groups of two, or grouping plants to give the impression of their having dispersed naturally. Even more with the use of individual emergent plants (singletons) that do not self-seed, dispersed through the planting.
An intricate matrix of small plants underscores simple combinations of larger perennials placed randomly in twos or threes giving the illusion of having seeded from a larger group.
The dispersion effect is maintained and enhanced by the natural rhythm of the grasses that give consistency to the design. They flow round the garden while the taller perennials form visual anchors.
Allow self-seeding (dynamism) using a competitive static plant to prevent self-seeders from taking over: Aruncus to control self-seeding Angelica.
Sustainable plant communities based on selection (plants chosen for their suitability to the soil conditions and matched for their competitiveness) and proportions (balance ephemeral plants with static forms and combinations such as clumpforming perennials that do not need dividing: 20% ephemeral, self-seeding plants, 80% static plants) of the different species, dependent on their flowering season (a smaller numbers of early-flowering perennials, from woodland edges, which will emerge to give a carpet of green in the spring and will be happy in semi-shade later in the year, followed by a larger proportion of the taller-growing perennials which keep their form and seed-heads into the autumn and the winter).
Year-round interest and a naturalistic intermingling of plant forms.
Ecological compatibility in terms of plants suitability to the site and plants competitive ability to mach each other.
Working with seed mixes and randomly planted mixtures.
Perennials laid out in clumps and Stipa tenuissima dotted in the gaps. Over the time the grass forms drifts around the more static perennials and shrublike planting while the verbascum and kniphofia disperse naturally throughout the steppe.
Accents: Select strong, long lasting vertical forms with a good winter seed-heads. Select plants that will not self-seed, unless a natural dispersion model is required.
Planes: if designing a monoculture or with a limited palette, more competitive plants may be selected to prevent seeding of other plants into the group.
Drifts: to create drifts of naturalistic planting that are static in their shape over time use not-naturalizing, not self-seeding, not running plants.
Create naturalistic blocks for the seeding plants to drift around. For the static forms select plants that do not allow the ephemerals to seed into them.
Blocks: use not-naturalizing species, in high densities, in large groups.
Select compatible plants of similar competitiveness to allow for high-density planting (to enable planting at high density in small gardens).
Achieve rhythm by repeating colours and forms over a large-scale planting.