Wild Meadow plant selection

There's this old abandoned brick school building down the street from me. I have a die hard fantasy of buying it from the city and turning it into a loft. It's probably 3 or 4 stories tall and a block wide. The view... well, I've never been on the roof, but I just know it's amazing. Space Needle, Puget Sound, the works. And I'd make the roof green and lush, such as these beauties designed by Goode Green, the pioneers of the green roof movement. Yeah, I know. Keep dreaming, you say. Oh, I…

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Ancienne Demeure du Comte de la Jarrige datant du XVIIème siècle, le Domaine de la Jarrige comporte un ensemble de bâtiments et dépendances transformées en chambres d’hôtes

Wildflower meadow - Highgrove, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Source: Cotswold Life - H.R.H. Prince Charles

Have you seen this on TV yet? I may not be entirely rational at the moment and, granted, I did first see it after a long day of dodging cigarette buts and beer cans in our local playground, but still – it made me well up. Just a small bit. And it made my thoughts…

Fotos und Reportagen aus den schönsten europäischen Gärten von den Gartenfotografen Jürgen Becker, Ursel Borstell, Ferdinand Graf von Luckner und Volker Michael