Reford Gardens
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Reford Gardens
Opening
Of The
17th
International Garden
Festival
Twenty-six gardens will be on view this summer at the 17th edition of the International
Garden Festival. Five new creations by designers from Canada, the United States, France
and Switzerland will join the temporary installations on view and a sixth will be exhibited
at special events throughout the summer.
CYCLOPS by
Craig Chapple,
Phoenix,
Arizona,
United States
Photo credit:
Martin Bond
T
he International
Garden Festival invites
visitors to explore
twenty-six interactive
garden installations
created by seventytwo landscape architects,
architects, designers and visual
artists from nine countries.
For the 17th edition, five new
creations by designers from
Canada, the United States,
France and Switzerland will
join the temporary installations
on view and a sixth will be
exhibited at special events
throughout the summer.
Five new gardens of the 2016
edition of the Festival were
selected by the jury from
203 projects submitted from
31 countries for the annual
competition. LE CAVEAU is a
complex construction made of
stone gabions that support a
levitating green platform.
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