Following a bit of a lengthy to-do with my printer, I manage to post my final project, the Soft Landscape Portfolio, the day before I zoom off on holiday. My in-laws have ever-so-kindly given me eurail tickets as a graduation present and I am to spend the next month with them in ‘Yurp’. I cunningly sneak a fair few gardens into the jam-packed itinerary, which essentially involves going to Greece and back.
The first garden I drag everyone to is Het Loo in the Netherlands. It’s a formal 17th century garden with many different types of parterre and splooshy fountains. Despite my slight aversion to all things clipped, we all really enjoy strolling around – probably helped by the warm, sunny day. But also because the layout is such a cohesive, tidy tapestry where the shapes and colours work really well. After a previous overnight in Haarlem, where we are seduced by roof gardens and grapevines shading brick alleys, we all decide we want to be Dutch.
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