Ceci n’est pas un monochrome Festival des jardins, Chaumont sur Loire, France (2008–2009)
The theme of the Garden Festival de Chaumont-sur-Loire 2009 is colour. The design is a monochromatic blue garden. Blue is the most abstract and difficult colour. But actually a monochromatic garden doesn’t exist, no two plants have the same colour blue. Annuals and perennials with different flowering periods and heights are planted. The individual characteristics of each plant vanish. One glowing blue field is created.
The plant serves one purpose; contributing to the monochrome. The visitor looks onto the blue field from a narrow terrace. The plants of the monochrome will be exhibited in the garden house. Each plant with its own characteristics and its own specific colour will receive complete attention in the totally white space. It’s an ode to the individual plant. Ceci n’est pas un monochrome.
Type: Garden
Client: Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire Designteam: Bureau B+B stedebouw en landschapsarchitectuur in collaboration with BTL
Program: -
Surface: 210m2 Budget: ¤17.115,00
IV Anemone blanda Anchusa azurea 'Loddon Royalist' Aconitum carmichaelii 'Arendsii' Aconitum 'Bressingham Spire' Aquilegia vulgaris Aquilegia alpina Aquilegia flabellata 'Ministar' Aconitum napellus Aubrieta 'Blue Emperor' Brunnera macrophylla Catananche caerulea Centaurea cyanus Centaurea montana 'Grandiflora' Delphinium grandiflorum 'Blauer Zwerg' Delphinium grandiflorum 'Butterfly' Delphinium belladonna 'Atlantis' Delphimium belladonna 'Capri' Delphinium 'Bellamosum' Delphinium elatum 'Black Knight' Delphinium elatum 'Blue Bird' Delphinium belladonna 'Volkerfrieden' Echinops ritro Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue' Eryngium bourgatii Eryngium planum Eryngium planum 'Blauer Zwerg' Gentiana acaulis Gentiana asclepiadea Gentiana sino ornate Gentiana verna Gentiana triflora 'Royal Blue' Houstonia caerulea 'Millard's Variety' Iris siberica 'Blue King' Iris siberica 'Perrys Blue' Iris germanica 'Alacazar' Iris germanica 'Dalmatica' Isotoma fluviatilis Jasione laevis 'Blaulicht' Kalimeris incisa 'Blue Star' Lithodora diff. 'Heavenly Blue' Linum perenne Linum perenne 'Saphir' Lobelia 'Techno Blue' Lobelia siphilitica Malva 'Primely Blue' Mertensia viginica Myosotis sylvatica Nepeta faassenii 'Walker's Low' Nigella damascena Omphalodes verna Phyteuma scheuchzeri Polemonium caeruleum Pulmonaria 'Blaues Meer' Pulmonaria longifolia 'E.B. Anderson' Salvia nemerosa 'Marcus' Salvia patens 'Royal Blue' Salvia uliginosa Scabiosa caucasia 'Perfecta' Scutellaria scordiifolia Sisyrunchium angustifolium Tradescantia 'Leonora' Verbena bonariensis Veronica austriaca 'Knallblau' Veronica prostate Veronica spicata Veronica spicata 'Ulster Dwarf Blue' Veronica spicata ssp. incana Viola cornuta 'Blaue Schönheit' Viola cornuta ‘Boughton Blue’
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