Human Flower Project
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Monday, September 15, 2008
A Paris Garden with Iron Bones
Strong on geometry (and previously, on KFC wrappers, too), an abandoned stretch of Paris has become a community garden, 300 members strong. Nature Deficit Disorder, adieu!
Graffiti and petunias mingle in Les Jardins du Ruisseau, Paris
Photo: Allen Bush
By Allen Bush
André Le Nôtre and Claude Monet, respective talents behind the historic gardens of Versailles and Giverny, used straight lines in their designs. Strong bones make good gardens. Les Jardins du Ruisseau came ready-made with straight lines – an old abandoned Paris rail line. Even with adjacent looming apartment buildings, Le Nôtre might have thought the gardens insufficiently palatial, but Monet would have liked the bright yellow sunflowers and orange nasturtiums.