Floriade 2012 With only four weeks to go, planting at this year’s Floriade in the Netherlands has reached its climax and I had the opportunity to spend the afternoon last week with its senior planting designer, Sanne Horn, walking, looking at, and talking about the result. As I said in my previous detailed review the overall …
Following on from my previous post about Floriade 2012 I thought I would share some of the planting ideas that I encountered there. As I commented earlier, such a season long show allows designers to experiment with different uses of plants, but unlike a garden show such as the Chelsea Flower Show these plantings have …
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Floriade 2012 – the mid summer review A garden show such as the Floriade which runs all summer gives its designers the opportunity to try out different planting ideas. During my first visit it was tulips that dominated and created the festival spirit that I associate with the arrival of spring. Now in mid summer …
Floriade is the international horticultural exhibition held every ten years in the Netherlands. I am fortunate to have been able to visit the past three. In 1992 at Zoetermeer I recall being impressed and still remember some of the garden designs and planting schemes there. Unfortunately, ten years later at Haarlemmermeer, near to my home …