Private garden, Terwolde
Year: 2014
Photos: Ben ter Mull
This large farmyard with a monumental old farm is surrounded by very different, but all fantastic landscapes: a nearby estate with a castle, the village, the dike planted with enormous, old oaks, and the pond behind the dike. By creating clear lines alongside the buildings the yard and the surrounding landscapes are (visually) connected. At the same time, these lines separate the different spheres with different functions: the vegetable garden, the orchard, the lawn, the terrace. These gardens are situated at the front area, the living area of the farmyard. These lines also separate the front and rear of the farm, traditionally the neat and the more ‘messy’ sides of the yard.
The rear side, in the direction of the pond and the dike, is overgrown with stinze plants and gets increasingly wild behind a meandering and wildly overgrown ditch. A lovely contrast is created geometrically shapen gardens (materialized with corten steel, hedges and white gravel) and the flowering natural landscape surrounding it.
