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What garden are , should , and might be is a invariant beginning of public debate among pro and unskilled garden makers . Twenty - one years ago , theInternational Festival of Gardens at Domaine de Chaumont - sur - Loire , France start to resolve some of those dubiousness with its annual showcase of conceptual garden . graphic designer , architects , horticulturalists and artist there have made more than 580 gardens over the class that have pushed the boundaries of garden design . The induction are mean to freely prod at the limit of the potential . They are not the short lived theatrical show gardens of Chelsea and Philadelphia flower shows , these are actual build landscape of the resource . Each twelvemonth , the base is dissimilar . For 2014 , the theme of the Chamount gardens 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 carry on this dialogue , Les Jardins de Metis / Reford Gardens in Quebec and CornerStone in California . In Canada , the selections for the 2014 were announced in former December for the 15th looping ofthe International Festival of Gardens at Les Jardins de Metis / Reford Gardens . North of Quebec City , it has mount fresh gardens every yr since 2000 , based on an open challenger that encourages interdisciplinary collaboration . The festival has attracted many U.S. designer and architects who have deliver the goods site and built observational gardens including Ken Smith , Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . Some gardens remain for years after they are built , others are more temporary .
Since 2004,CornerStonein Sonoma , Calif. , has strived to blur the demarcation between art , design and landscape painting , and to make an environment that allows both the intriguer ’s and the world ’s imaginations to soar . Its newest gain to theprevious gardensthat have been installed on its nine acres was created by architect and sculptorSuzanne Biaggi . environmental science of Place for Phil Biaggi fuzee memory , art , landscape , ecology , and sustainable design into a cohesive whole that challenges visitors . Inspired by the region original wetlands , Biaggi say about the garden ’s concept , “ It play up the grandness of ecological balance to the time to come 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 students from Harvard Graduate School of Design , Surface Deep , 2011 - 13 . Photo by : Reford Gardens , Susan Cohan . SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THESE GARDENS
A rambling path bordered with a runnel and drift of wetland plants guides visitors through the quad . Hedges intentionally stuff and reveal views . There are quiet home to stop and rest along the path that Biaggi hopes “ that visitors retard down enough to study and wonder what the garden holds and teach . ” SculptorRegan Gentrywas pick out by the designer to create a feature piece for the garden . Inspired by the California Buckeye , a native wetland tree , Gentry make a life size of it wire Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that also inspired the grape vine that Biaggi constructed as another garden feature article that is a visual nod to what has happened to the native landscape .
An overview of Suzanne Biaggi’sEcology of Place for Phil Biaggi . Photo by : Marion Brenner , Laura Reoch , Scott Hess . SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THESE garden
As a landscape painting fashion designer , Biaggi practices sustainable intention that always harkens back to the ecology of its website . Of her garden at CornerStone , she reflect , “ The creation of this quad has boost my sentience of spot and how it changes over time with how it is used , but the ecology of the infinite does n’t really change . The area is still a wetland . If we honor the ecology of a site the cycle is not broken and we are working in harmony with nature . When we judge to impose our needs on a land site , it ’s really an rising battle and Mother Nature will gain in the end . ”
