I’ve been hired to redesign the gardens at a Chateau in the south of France. This is part of the series. We will continue to document the project as we go along. It will take a few years to complete. In this episode I talk about some ideas for a Japanese Garden area.
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[Music] Hello again from Chateau Lour Alpine in Pmpon, France. Uh my design clients, I’m helping renovate the garden a little bit and this is kind of we talked about editing in the early video and I talked about bamboo that’s got to go and I want to show you what’s going to come around it and and trying to see literally the future garden through the bamboo because right now there’s so much of it. But I got some ideas. This is where the fish pond is. All right. This is the fish pond essentially. A couple nice chairs to sit in. You can see the water here. There are fish in there. And then, let me get back a little bit first before I get close. So, you’ve got all this bamboo here. There are a couple of trees. That’s a pimmen tree there. That is an apricot tree that drops apricots. So, a lot of them. That was cleaned up yesterday. So, here you can see. I mean, it’s a nice spot. Uh, it’s shady. It needs to be shady for the fish, uh, obviously. But again, when the bamboo goes, here’s a rose that probably needs to go. There is the rock cropping there. You can see a tree just kind of winding its way here. So, there’s that. That looks It looks like it could be a neat structure. I can’t see it yet for the bamboo. But what we want to do with this is once this is gone, we’ll see what we’re going to keep and what we’re going to save. And then we’re looking at probably putting in Japanese maples and some other trees like that to give us some shade, but also to give us texture. That’s what I love about Japanese maples. And it’s a Japanese style garden, so it makes sense. There are some other trees we can use as well. But I think this can be a really really nice space, very quiet. And if you sort of imagine the textures of of again, you know, the those kind of trees where the foliage is the star, either the color or the shape or the texture of the foliage also then some very gentle screening. So then what you have to do to see what’s on the other side, you’re forced to move, which is the whole point of being in a garden is moving. Walk around and you remember me talking about that long piece where the patank court and the archers are going to be. That’s what will be here. So that’ll be sort of a you come around and boom, there’s this surprise of this transition from this very casual, relaxed, shady space into this more formal, sunny space. That’s what they talk about with garden rooms. That’s the that’s the fun part of doing this job that I do and designing gardens is making these kind of spaces come alive. Soundstripe.
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