Paulina's concept

Paulina's presentation on J.P Ganem

vertical gardening

Hello,

I attach 2 pictures of a vertical strawberry field my brother and mother built this autumn in Southern France. They used recycled wood and some sort of horticultural plastic filled with soil. It may be inspiring for those of you planning furnitures or some sort of walls to have a terraced garden.

Tristan

Charlotte Elise Carine's model

Peter's Concept

Plan is to create a mirrored image of the facade of the neighboring building as a ground plan of the garden.

blueprint

Attached to this post is the blueprint of the area as I scanned it. The resolution is not great so I also send you the file via email. It mentions scale 1:500 but now that it's scanned I don't think it holds anymore.

Cheers,

Tristan

Joel and Pauliina's Concept

The garden includes a covered stage area attached to a straw bale shed for keeping the tools. In the center of the garden is either a sauna or a cob oven.

Tristan's concept

Hello!

Eventually I get to post some pics for you to have an idea of what I have in mind. I want to work with cylinders made of materials we can find, whatever this would be (wood, rocks, concrete pipes, etc...). Within these cylinders it'd be easy to insert sort of bag to isolate them from the ground. In addition, I am planning to have some large logs for sculpture purpose. These standing logs would be useful for the structure of the garden to show in winter when covered with a thick layer of snow.

Olli Rompanen's concept

Olli's idea is to use the ground-cover of the forest to cover the landscape of the garden.

http://olotila.yle.fi/piha/piha-ja-puutarhatyot/piharakentaminen/metsanpohjamaton-eli-kuntan-asentaminen-pihalle

Paulina Rypakova's concept

Here are some of my sketches and ideas:

The main purpose of my project is using garbage bags used as instant vertical gardens. here is my inspiration:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/garbage-bag-gardens.php#ch02

I'd like to use this garbage bags for planting some evergreens and also some herbs.


Next idea is to build a "little wooden hills" like iglos - space for children- climbing and also like little houses..

this iglos I'd like to connect to a wooden seats.

All is in my sketches..

Growing fruit trees in containers and other links

Fruit trees in containers:

http://www.davewilson.com/homegrown/gardencompass/gc10.1_sept_oct_02.html

http://www.learn2grow.com/gardeningguides/trees/planting/FruitTreesContainers.aspx

http://www.crfg.org/tidbits/container.html

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art21656.asp

FRUIT TREES THAT GROW WELL IN CONTAINERS
Not all fruit trees will grow well in containers for long periods of time. If you want to grow a fruit tree in a container for just a couple of years, then you can grow just about any fruit tree. However, if you want to grow a fruit tree in a container for its entire life, then you may want to try some of the fruit trees listed below. The size of container plays a factor in what you can or can't grow. Generally, you will want to use a container that measures 18 - 24 inches wide and about the same depth. Larger containers can be used as well. Wine barrels cut in half are often used. It really doesn't matter the material of the container as long as there is adequate drainage. Some of the fruit trees that can be grown well in containers are dwarf meyer lemons, dwarf kumquats, dwarf eureka lemons(will require regular pruning), genetic dwarf nectarines, genetic dwarf peaches, and some of the dwarf apples(varieties on the Mark and M-27 rootstocks only grow 8-10 feet). Also, pineapple guavas, chilean guavas, or strawberry guavas can be grown successfully in containers. Other dwarf citrus may do okay in large containers with regular pruning.

Apple trees in containers:

http://lifeonthebalcony.com/growing-an-apple-tree-in-a-container/

Greenhouse:

http://www.kekkila.fi/kotipuutarhurit/tuotteet/koti-piha-tuotteet/vihervajat/vihervaja-sato

Gardening in Alaska:

http://www.alaskamastergardeners.org/Recommended/Recommended.html

http://www.gardenguides.com/alaska-gardening/articles/

Growing Zones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/160935507qFZkjl?start=0

Links for Gardening and Politics

Groups that have taken up the issue of the relationship between residents and public-private space. The relationships that develop between individuals and their environments through plants, especially food producing plants, are illustrated through direct actions such as foraging for fruit in public spaces or planting food producing plants in public spaces. Some examples:

Green Guerillas

(www.greenguerillas.org)

Began in 1973 by Liz Christy in Manhattan, who gathered her friends and neighbors together to transform a vacant lot in Manhattan into a community garden. This developed into actions such as throwing seeds over fences into vacant lots, installing window boxes, planting flowers in tree pits, and helping transform vacant lots into community gardens in other places.

Guerrilla Gardener

(www.guerrillagardening.org -  video)

Begun as a blog of his illegal gardening in public space, Richard Reynolds has continued with helpers to make videos of their gardening interventions.

Fallen Fruit

(www.fallenfruit.org - media, video)

Began with mapping the fruit trees of one neighborhood in Los Angeles, and it has developed into larger mapping projects, foraging walks, and artist in resident projects.

Not Far From the Tree

(www.notfarfromthetree.org)

Organisation that picks fruit for individuals who own fruit trees and shares the fruit. One third goes to the fruit tree owners, another third goes to the volunteers for their labour, and the final third is distributed (by bicycle or cart) to community organizations in the neighbourhood who can make good use of the fresh fruit.

Katie Holten

(www.katieholten.com - public artworks – tree museum)

Artist who uses the relationship between people and plants as the focus of her projects. In one project, she created a museum of 100 trees along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, NY. There were points marked at which one could listen to stories from a resident of the area about their relationship to the surrounding natural environment.

Los Angeles Urban Rangers

(www.laurbanrangers.org - field sites – malibu public beaches)

Organisation that develops guided hikes, campfire talks, field kits and other tools to inspire explorations of the LA urban environment and its surroundings.

They take as their perspective the point of view of the US national park service and apply this to urban environments.

Finding the limits of the public-private spaces in and around LA, they have for example made a Malibu Public Beach Safari which teach people what are the laws on trespassing and private property and how people can safely and legally use the beaches without trespassing on the estates of the wealthy residents. This location is one of the most expensive places to own a home, and the reason for this is that the homes have private beach access. This limits the public from being able to use the natural landscape without braking the laws of private property in California. The project calls into question the issues around ownership of land, of class divisions, and of the relationship to nature that is determined by these social forces.