Meadowland/ A Prairie Garden

MEADOWLANDS / A Prairie Garden

Wildflower meadows are hotbeds of localised biodiversity, providing habitats for rich insect ecosystems (including pollinators) that support other communities along the food chain. Urbanisation and climate change accelerate habitat and biodiversity loss so the solutions to our environmental problems should have an urban component and our cities must provide for as many communities as possible…plant, insect and animal as well as human.

This garden installation promotes the importance of these wildflower habitats and their attendant insect communities and immerses visitors within the rich landscape of a prairie meadowland...allowing a closer appreciation of the communities that share our urban and natural landscapes.

A wildflower meadow is suspended in a bowl of re-used pipes (PVC or cardboard) that from the outside betrays no sign of the naturalistic landscape within. Visitors wend their way through the external columns to the centre where they emerge surrounded by a wildflower meadow...face to face with the flowers, grasses and insects that inhabit this prairie microcosm. A distilled and ecologically rich natural landscape, focused on the viewer and framing the sky above.

Designer Jardin de Métis - Competition entry in collaboration with Neil Moncreiff

[November - December 2019] MEADOWLANDS | Den Haag - Delft, The Netherlands

Axonometric View of the garden

Garden Elevation

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