Taja landscaping project
- Landscaping Project: ÁBATON
The Taja garden has a street. Behind the planting, the balconies of the neighbouring buildings appear, and that fact explains the project: a modern family house, a plot of domestic dimensions and the need for the view from inside to be countryside, not city.
Our solution was not to raise a wall but to plant a cypress hedge as a backdrop and, in front of it, a meadow of perennials that catches the eye before it reaches the neighbours. Echinaceas with drooping petals, penstemons, salvias, pinks and feathery-spiked grasses are arranged in loose drifts, without rows, with the mix of order and disorder of a meadow that someone has composed with care. The palette is decisive: pinks, magentas, purples and lilacs against the dark green of the cypresses, which serves as a background to every colour.
There are more than sixty varieties, which we chose on three criteria: that they withstand the summer with little water, that they ask for little work and that they flower in turns. Some open in spring; others wait for the end of summer. The bees and butterflies arrive on their own.
The slab path runs close to the façade, among salvias and aromatic plants, to the glazed doors, so that entering the house means crossing the planting. And from inside, the vegetation reaches the glass: from the dining room, the magenta flowers are at table height, and a young maple by the sliding door will give shade in years to come.
A garden like this softens an architecture of straight lines without disguising it. The house remains sharp; what changes is that it is no longer alone. And whoever lives in it looks out and sees a meadow where the plan said plot.
