IL GIARDINO DELLE VERGINI

La Biennale di Venezia, Piet Oudolf 2010

THE PROJECT

This garden is a part of the architectual biennale of

2010 in Venice. The biennale is curated by Kazuyo
Sejima and is intitled “People meet in architecture”.
The exhibition takes part from the 29th of August until
the 21st of November. The site for the exhibition is IL GIARDINO
an old Italian navy yard. The garden of Piet Oudolf “Il DELLE VERGINI
giardino delle vergini” will be constructed during the
spring and is designed to show its very best during
the exhibition. The plant borders have a pattern of
repeating plant groups in two layers. One layer with
small groups of very textural and outstanding plants,
and one layer with large groups broken up by the
smaller plant groups to create a spontaneous feeling.
Together the two layers works as one image, creating
a feeling of stepping into a tall meadow.

PRESENT SITUATION

Waterfront on the north side of the garden. Path leading through the brambles. South of the site,GGN Kathryn Gustafson, Biennale 2008.
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THE GARDEN

Beautiful buildings hidden be-

LEGEND
tween shipyards and naval de-
pots, some from the early 14th BUILDING

century, surround the garden of GRAVEL PATH

CONCRETE

the Virgins were the garden will be LAWN

situated. The space partly a wil-

DEPOT
UNKEPT AREA

derness and covered by a canopy RYE

of large plane trees will become

PERENNIAL BORDER

OLEANDER HEDGE

a destination and a place to stay LAWN

SOLITAIR PLANTS

during the visit to the Biennale. UNKEPT AREA

Part of this wilderness will be left TREE

but in the middle of this a new DEPOT

BENCH
garden will be created with an
atmosphere that reminds you of UNKEPT AREA

nature at its most ideal form (as TOWER

in a dream.) The emphasis is on

late summer and autumnal abun-
UNKEPT AREA

dance. The plants are chosen for PERENNIAL

BORDER

their late flowering, structure, tex-

ture or autumn colour. Most plants RYE +

are attractive even in decay or

PLANTS

as skeletons in winter. A path lets

people move through the planting. PERENNIAL PERENNIAL
BORDER BORDER

It is wide and therefore invites us GGN GARDEN

to stay, sit or hang out for a while. GRADED

LAWN

At the end, as an introduction to POWER BOX

PATH + SITTING AREA

the next areas, there is a slightly RYE +

PLANTS

wild and rough lawn under exist-

ing trees were one can enjoy the PERENNIAL

borders from a little distance. BORDER

PERENNIAL
BORDER

UNKEPT AREA
UNKEPT AREA

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PLANTING DESIGN SKETCHES - conceptual stages

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PLANTING DESIGN SKETCHES - final planting design

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TRANSFERRING THE DESIGN ON SITE

This images shows the method used by Piet Oudolf to transfer the drawing on the ground, nec-
essary for setting out the plants. A grid with sections of 2x2 m is put on the planting plan and on
real scale on the site. Then the planting areas are sprayed out on the ground. The image to the
right shows the preparations for the plantings of the High line in New York.

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 TRANSFERRING THE DESIGN ON SITE
A

Due to the complexity of the design, various numbers of plant details is done This detail shows
small plant groups, with exact number of plants for each single group. The plants will then be
put out correctly on the sprayed ground. The image to the right shows grid and areas for plant
groups sprayed on the ground.

2x2 m SCALE 1:100 (A3)

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PLANTLIST

PERENNIALS ANNUALS

Achillea ‘Walter Funcke’ Ammi visnage’ Green mist’

Aconitum wilsonii Dahlia coccinea
Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ Dahlia ‘North Star’
Anemone ‘Pamina’ Nicotiana sylvestris
Anemone robustissima Nicotiana ‘Tinkerbell’
Aster ageratoides ‘Asran’
Aster amellus ‘Sonora’
Aster “Little Carlow’ GRASSES
Aster novae-angliae ‘Alma Potschke’
Aster ‘Oktoberlicht’ Molinia caerulea ‘Edith Dudzus’
Cimicifuga ramosa ‘Atropurpurea’ Molinia caerulea ‘Heidebraut’
Echinacea ‘Fatal Attraction’ Molinia caerulea ‘Moorhexe’
Echinacea purpurea mix Molinia caerulea ‘Transparent’
Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ Panicum virgatum ‘Rehbraun’
Eupatorium rugosum ‘Chocolate’ Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’
Eupatorium maculatum ‘Atropurpureum’ Pennisetum alopecuriodes ‘Viridiscens’
Gentiana trifolia ‘Royal Blue’ Sesleria autumnalis
Helenium ’Rubinzwerg’
Heuchera micrantha ‘Palace Purple’
Kirengeshoma palmata
Lobelia vedrariensis
Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Alba’
Persicaria ‘Orange Field’
Scabiosa columbaria ‘Butterfly Blue’
Scutellaria incana
Sedum ‘Matrona’
Stachys officinalis ‘Hummelo’
Tricyrtis formosana ‘Purple Beauty’

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PLANT CATALOGUE - perennials

Achillea ‘Walter Funcke’ Aconitum wilsonii Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’

Anemone ‘Pamina’ Anemone robustissima Aster ageratoides ‘Asran’

Aster amellus ‘Sonora’ Aster “Little Carlow’ Aster novae-angliae ‘Alma Potschke’

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PLANT CATALOGUE - perennials

Heuchera micrantha ‘Palace Purple’ Kirengeshoma palmata Lobelia vedrariensis

Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Alba’ Persicaria ‘Orange Field’ Scabiosa columbaria ‘Butterfly Blue’

Scutellaria incana Sedum ‘Matrona’ Stachys officinalis ‘Hummelo’

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PLANT CATALOGUE - perennials

Aster ‘Oktoberlicht’ Cimicifuga ramosa ‘Atropurpurea’ Echinacea ‘Fatal Attraction’

Echinacea purpurea mix Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ Eupatorium rugosum ‘Chocolate’

Eupatorium maculatum ‘Atropurpureum’ Gentiana trifolia ‘Royal Blue’ Helenium ’Rubinzwerg’

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PLANT CATALOGUE - perennials & annuals

Tricyrtis ‘Purple Beauty’

Ammi visnage’ Green mist’ Dahlia coccinea Dahlia ‘North Star’

Nicotiana sylvestris Nicotiana ‘Tinkerbell’

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PLANT CATALOGUE - grasses

Molinia caerulea ‘Edith Dudzus’ Molinia caerulea ‘Heidebraut’ Molinia caerulea ‘Moorhexe’

Molinia caerulea ‘Transparent’ Panicum virgatum ‘Rehbraun’ Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’

Pennisetum alopecuriodes ‘Viridiscens’ Sesleria autumnalis

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Piet Oudolf
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