2023-04-22 07:00:11
They were shunned for a long time, because of their shaggy, skinny appearance and their allergenic properties capable of making more than one cry. We preferred begonias, fuchsias, pansies… No question of letting the grasses sow their neglected and unruly je-ne-sais-quoi on our flowerbeds. “Wild and natural, rectifies Lynda Harris, a British landscape architect based in Paris. Their presence is reminiscent of undergrowth, meadows, savannah… Grasses are very relaxing, especially in town. »
We see them, of course, in gardens, in pots on balconies and even in bouquets. Since the New Perennial movement and its naturalist gardens rehabilitated them in the 1990s, Miscanthus (“elephant grass”), Calamagrostis, Cutlery (“grass of the pampas”) and their disheveled cousins have succeeded in seducing the most prominent landscapers. They have gone from roadside ditches to the High Line in New York, vegetated by Piet Oudolf, or to the garden of the Parisian museum of Quai Branly, imagined by Gilles Clément.
Architectural, they structure green spaces like punctuations and set them in motion. But, above all, “they respond to this desire for a more ecological and simple life”, adds Lynda Harris. Not needing much water or fertilizer, they just need to grow naturally to hide the concrete, and stay on their feet to bask in the sun.
and come alive in the wind.
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