2011 edition - Gardens of the future or the art of happy biodiversity

11. Manier avec précaution

published at 03/11/2017

"Manier avec précaution", Festival des Jardins 2011 - © DR

This fragile garden is a metaphor for the threats hanging over nature and invites us to handle plants with care. We do not know what the future will bring us and what our life will be like there. Will there still be space for nature and forests? Will there be a little garden for each house we build? If we are to believe what the media want to have us believe, everything will get better and better, more quickly and more easily. But is this really the case?

In fact, a completely different future awaits us. Our resources are running out, natural catastrophes seem to occur more frequently.

The price we are paying for our behaviour is getting higher and higher. We can no longer ignore these warning signs.

We must have a greater respect for our environment and our planet. We must look after it just as we do ourselves. This is the main idea attached to this garden.

And if in the future we also want to enjoy a happy biodiversity, we advise everyone to “handle nature with care”.

DESIGNERS

PIT PARTNER IN TUINARCHITECTUUR -Jeroen JACOBS, landscape architect and Maarten JACOBS, designer-

THE NETHERLANDS

From left to right: Jeroen and Maarten Jacobs

Jeroen Jacobs was born in 1984 and is passionate about everything to do with gardening. He completed his studies in garden and landscape architecture at the Erasmus Institute in Brussels. During his career, he has acquired experience in various national and international architecture firms, including some in London and in the Dutch Antilles. Before specialising, Jeroen worked as a gardener. In 2009, he founded the garden and landscape agency, ‘Pit!’. He has been responsible for a very wide variety of projects (gardens for private individuals, for companies and for national institutions and exhibition gardens, such as the one for the Appeltern Garden Festival). He has succeeded in making a name for himself in the world of cultivating Dutch gardens, with very special creations which stimulate reflection.

Maarten Jacobs was born in 1986 and has boundless creativity. He studied to be an “art director” at the Sint Lucas Art Academy in Boxtel. Right from the very foundation of Pit!, Maarten has been heavily involved in the projects and in particular he deals with creativity, the implementation of concepts and the visualisation of plans.

THE GARDEN'S PLANTS

Alcea rosea 'Nigra'

Anemone hupehensis 'Splendens'

Aquilegia hybride 'Black Barlow'

Centaurea dealbata

Crocosmia 'Lucifer'

Cynara cardunculus

Dahlia 'Arabian Night'

Echinacea 'Pink Double Delight'

Echinacea purpurea

Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'

Euphorbia martinii

Geranium phaeum

Geum chiloense 'Mrs. Bradshaw'

Helleborus orientalis 'Red Hybrids'

Hemerocallis 'American Revolution'

Hemerocallis 'Black Prince'

Hemerocallis 'Crimson Pirate'

Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple'

Heuchera sanguinea 'Splendens'

Heuchera x brizoides 'Pluie de Feu'

Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron'

Lupinus 'My Castle'

Lychnis chalcedonica

Monarda 'Cambridge Scarlet'

Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Niger'

Paeonia officinalis 'Rubra Plena'

Papaver orientale 'Beauty of Livermere'

Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum'

Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail'

Potentilla atrosanguinea

Rodgersia pinnata 'Chocolate Wings'

Sedum spectabile 'Herbstfreude'

Sedum spectabile 'Matrona'

Verbena bonariensis