How to create the garden of your dreams? | You will find out at the GREEN IS LIFE Fair!
On Saturday, September 7, we invite you to the Garden Creators’ Meeting, where you will learn the secrets of arranging a home garden. Is the modern garden a paradise? What really is an English garden? How to create its structural frame? Which plant species will survive in harsh environmental conditions? You will learn all this on the third day of the GREEN IS LIFE Fair!
10:00 – 10:20 The garden is not a paradise
Let’s talk about the myth of the home garden, which appears to us as a substitute for paradise lost. Where plants and animals live in symbiosis and are watched over by an unmoved mover, a demiurge in his own person – man. Pretty no? True, magnificent and wonderful. One would like to say that the garden is such a paradise on earth. Well, precisely no. Rather, it is such a land on earth. Colonialism, destruction, destruction and domination. This is true of the modern garden. Is this naturalizing or geometric? I invite you, together with Michal Książek, author of “Atlas of Holes and Gaps,” to discuss the myth of the modern home garden. Maybe we can change something together?
Wojciech Januszczyk, Fundacja Krajobrazy
Wojciech Januszczyk is a landscape architect, employee of the Institute of Landscape Architecture of the Catholic University of Lublin and lecturer at the Biala Academy of Applied Sciences in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Graduate of the School of Ecopoetics at the Institute of Reportage and owner of the Krajobrazy (Landscapes) design studio. Founder of Fundacja Krajobrazy and Supervisor of Green Areas. He has served as president of the nationwide Association of Landscape Architects and is currently an honorary member of SAK. Participant of the Festival of Gardens in Bolestraszyce, where he creates original garden realisations under the cyclical title “Protest Garden”, drawing public attention to contemporary problems related to space and landscape, as well as those resulting from climate change and human responsibility for them. Creator of the idea of ‘overgrowth’ in public and private spaces. He promotes the introduction of the principles of the circular economy into landscape architecture. His commercial activities are guided by the principle “The garden is also a home”, indicating the functional character of the space.Artistic director of IN GARDEN – Festival of Garden Art and Public Space. Coordinator of the Landart Festival since 2024. Member of the Programme Board of the magazine “Urban Greenery”, where he leads the series “Copernican Revolution”. Author of texts in “Architecture and Business”. His passion is the word and its power. Praise for laziness, overgrowth, equality in space design, debunking myths about wasteland and tree planting in the city, unsightly aesthetics, or opposing the comparison of the modern garden to a biblical paradise are concepts on which he focuses his educational activities.
Michał Książek
Polish poet, reporter, cultural expert, forest engineer and ornithologist. Author of the book “Atlas of Holes and Gaps.” Nominated for the 2014 Gdynia Literary Award in the essay category for his book Yakutsk. A Dictionary of Place. Winner of the 2015 Wroclaw Silesius Poetry Prize in the debut of the year category for Science of Birds. For this volume, he was also nominated for the 2015 Nike Literary Award and for the award in the 11th National Literary Contest “Golden Mean of Poetry” 2015 for the best debut poetry book of 2014.
For his reportage Droga 816 he was awarded the 2016 Gdynia Literary Award in the essay category, the Wieslaw Kazanecki Literary Award of the President of the City of Bialystok for the best book of 2015, and the 2016 Magellan Award. “Droga 816” also brought nominations for the 2015 Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage, the 2016 Warsaw City Literary Award in the prose category, and the 2016 Beata Pawlak Award. In 2018 the book was published in German translation.
10:20 – 10:40 How to fit a garden into the environment?
How to find a balance in garden design by referring to the surrounding landscape? What tools does a landscape architect and garden designer have when creating a space close to nature? During the lecture, I will provide tips that I follow in my professional work every day. Constant observation of the landscape becomes the weapon of designers in the concern for the aesthetics of space and the fight to preserve biodiversity. Where is the line between craftsmanship and art? I will try to answer these questions during the lecture.
Michal Jozefczak, Planea
Landscape architect. Since 2016 he has been running his own design studio PLANEA. Author of nearly 150 projects in the field of landscape architecture in the broadest sense: parks, markets, residential areas, streets, home gardens and terraces. Winner of the Poland Architecture XXL plebiscite in the home gardens category in 2018 and 2022. In his projects he combines his executive practice with a constant search for new solutions.
10:40 – 11:00 The structural layer of the garden. A framework for building compositions
The values encoded in the landscape dictate the ideas and the conditions found translate them into the language of forms. Composition, form, substance, stylistics … Izabela Myszka from the Department of Landscape Art at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences will present a lecture on how to understand these concepts and how to redefine them each time in garden spaces, using the specific construction built from the garden content function.
Izabela Myszka, Ph.
Works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Landscape Art, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences. She also cooperates with the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznan. Academically and didactically, she deals with topics focusing on garden art and art in the garden in the broadest sense, horticulture therapy, living in the garden, understanding plants.
11:00 – 11:30 Permaculture design
The turn to nature has been very evident since the pandemic. Consumers are increasingly looking for ecological and health and environmentally safe solutions, including in food production. The topic of philosophy of thinking and caring for the welfare of the planet and ours is no different.
In the 1970s, the idea of permaculture emerged in the United States. It has only just begun to enter our country, but it is slowly rolling in and finding enthusiasts. The term permaculture itself is derived from the combination of two English words: permanent- continuous, unceasing and agriculture- farming, cultivation. In practice, it boils down to the idea of farming continuously. Permaculture design is one of the methods of ecological design, where self-regulating agricultural systems are assumed, following the example of natural ecosystems.
In permaculture design, inspiration is drawn directly from nature and observations of habitats that are not interfered with by humans. At the planning stage, before implementing the vision into actual work, it is necessary to know the habitat in detail, study the type of soil and its abundance, determine local climatic conditions, observe what native plant species grow in the area. The whole idea boils down to an approach in which one plans and adapts the nature of plantings to the capabilities and potential of the site.Permaculture is a full connection with nature.
Krzysztof Mielicki is a landscape architect from Poznan. He runs the company “Green notion”. The work is his passion. In it he puts emphasis on working out a balance between the needs of people and the good of nature.
11:30 – 11:50 Pioneer plants that survive in harsh environments
Andrzej Kujawa, The President of Polish Nurserymen Association
11:50 – 12:10 How to create a home jungle?
Damian Kohyt
A forerunner of the “plant stylist” profession.
He has a broad view of the surrounding world, which is perfectly compatible with the profession of landscape and interior design. He draws inspiration from nature and man, thanks to which he creates original spaces.
She loves traveling and loves meeting new people. She claims that talking to another person is the best inspiration for design.
When introducing plants into interiors, he combines the visual aspect with their superpowers.
His favorite plants are the forgotten and underrated ones:
– ficus,
– monstera,
– ferns.
In the summer he loves to explore the underwater world by snorkeling, and in the winter he enjoys spending time on the slopes, skiing.
12:10 – 12:30 Hardy perennials and the joy of gardening, Noel Kingsbury, Garden Masterclass Poland (recording)
12:30 – 12:50 How to achieve the “WOW” effect in the garden?
Hubert Lamański
Florist, gardener, lover of plants of all kinds. Associated with nature since childhood.
Creator of the YouTube channel Hubert Lamanski, where he talks about plants, gardens and arrangements.
He loves silence and especially the forest silence. For many years he has been designing, making and caring for the gardens of others.
Creator of the Wow!Garden project
Some achievements :
– publishing his own book “Floral decorations” – Second in print 🙂
– running a gardening channel on YT (126 thousand subscribers)
– winning the title of master florist
– nomination in the competition Florist of the year 2021 and 2022 (TOP 3)
– publication of works in the prestigious book Floral Annual describing the 100 most talented florists of the young generation in the world
– conducting classes with children in horticulture therapy (for 12 years; as one of the first in Poland)
– studying at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)
12:50 – 13:10 Secrets of the English garden
Katarzyna Bellingham, gardener, enthusiast and promoter of natural gardening methods.Greenery designer, owner of an ecological demonstration garden in Zgorzał in Kashubia. After graduating from the Technical School of Green Areas in Gdansk with a specialization in arranging and caring for historic areas she gained experience and knowledge during her apprenticeship in the chateau gardens at the medieval Hever Castle in Kent County, her studies at Hadlow College in Kent County in the field of professional horticulture and history of gardens, as well as during her apprenticeship in the organic garden of the English organic garden organization “Garden Organic”, whose patron is King Charles III.
The next stage of professional development was working in a private garden, at that time still owned by Prince Charles at his residence in Highgrove. For years, on the pages of the press, in radio shows, TV programs and social media, he has been passionately convincing people to put away artificial chemicals in the garden and to plant beds with native species of honey-giving plants that are valuable food for birds and insects.He encourages amateur gardeners to garden organically, to grow old varieties of flowers, vegetables and fruit trees, to stop digging up the soil in favor of mulching with compost. On a daily basis, he manages and maintains the Bellingham Garden in Zgorzal. She organizes open days at it, tours (most preferably by herself), gardening workshops and seedling fairs. She makes sure that the garden is vibrant and inspires the hundreds of amateur gardeners who visit every year.
She is the author of two books on gardening:
“The Bellingham Garden. How to grow a garden in harmony with nature” – Published March 2023 – Wytwórnia Publishing House
“Secrets of the English garden” – Published May 2024 – Wytwórnia Publishing House
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