Buxus ; box – Historical Gardens

Broderies (Le Nôtre) at Sceaux restored

HGimages: Sceaux HGmap: Sceaux HvdE 30 June, 2013 29 November, 2017Current Affairs, Garden History, Planting 2

André le Nôtre’s parterres de broderie are being reconstructed at Parc de Sceaux, as a reminder that the architect was born 400 years ago. The parterres are lined with box, and the whole approach seems to be different than the one use in reconstrutions in Holland.

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Box disease: different approaches

HGimages: Assumburg HGmap: Assumburg HvdE 13 January, 2013 13 January, 2013Current Affairs, Garden History, Planting 2

Box disieases force owners of historical gardens to look out for viable replaments. Different gardens choose different plants. The experience of historical gardens could well change in the near future.

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Replacements at Het Loo

HGimages: Het Loo HGmap: Paleis Het Loo HvdE 16 November, 2012 25 December, 2012Current Affairs, Garden History, Planting 0

Just over six years ago (oh, how time flies…) I wrote about a possible penalty for Paleis Het Loo for using too much water for their fountains, causing problems with groundwater levels in the surrounding areas. The main problem was a leak in the basin of the Venus fountain. Now,…

An inspirational garden in Paris

HGimages: Parc André Citroën HGmap: Parc André Citroën HvdE 5 February, 2012 19 July, 2015Current Affairs, Fieldwork, Planting, Striking Similarities 3

I suggest that a recent Michael van Gessel design for a garden in Amsterdam was influenced by a very similar garden feature in Parc André Citroën (designed in 1992 by Alain Provost and Gilles Clément). The same feature may even have inspired the design of the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin.

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Corten steel aesthetics: questionable

HGimages: Het Park Rotterdam HGmap: Het Park HvdE 14 June, 2010 19 July, 2015Current Affairs, Garden History 1

The strips of corten steel that are used to (re)create parterres de broderie are purely functional. Somehow -and to my dismay- the increasing interest in steel as a gardening material seems to result in ugly rims of steel around box hedges.

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Flora & Fauna: Buxus ; box

Broderies (Le Nôtre) at Sceaux restored

Box disease: different approaches

Replacements at Het Loo

An inspirational garden in Paris

Corten steel aesthetics: questionable

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