Oh my. I've almost forgiven the French garden designer/botanist Patrick Blanc for his no-show at the Garden Design Conference in New Zealand two years ago. He was scheduled to speak but decided at the last minute not to come any further than Australia. (Click here for this year's conference schedule; it's on in September). Patrick Blanc has made his name designing amazing vertical gardens in urban hotspots. When I was in Paris last year I went to the Musée du quai Branly to check out his living wall, but it's nothing on the garden he's created in Madrid. Next to the new modern art museum Caixa Forum, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (I mention that just to rub it in for my architect friends at home who idolise them), there's a giant garden in the sky. And it's a proper perennial garden, with ribbons of hostas and astilbes and blue geraniums hanging on by their roots. It's unbelievable. The 24m high garden has been built on the wall of a former power station, using 15,000 plants tucked into modular panels. It's just plain cool.
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Wow - I wouldn't want to try weeding that garden! But it's simply stunning.
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