Pure Foundation Garden - Chelsea Flower Show 2015
Pure Foundation Garden by Fernando Gonzales
For the Pure Land Foundation, Fernando created a garden space, framed by curvilinear, irregular boundaries, which integrate seating, planting containers and a small pool. A sense of wellbeing and positive energy within the garden is created through the use of these naturalistic forms.
Three unusual multi-stemmed 'Golden Rain' trees define the planting spaces through the garden and leave lovely silhouettes upon the shimmering white backdrop as does the naturalistic planting scheme using the primary colours in Buddhist art & ritual.
Fernando’s curvaceous designs were fabricated and clad with a white shimmering, lightweight marble-like finish, called Jesmonite® and manufactured using state of the art robotic CNC systems.
Pure Land in Buddhism is the realm of higher consciousness, peace and harmony. The Pure Land Foundation is not based in religion. We believe that art and music can establish a bridge between the individual and the harmony and higher order that exists in all forms of creation. The Pure Land
Foundation seeks, by supporting art, music and wellness, to establish an inter connectedness that will enable people to find a ‘Pure Land’ in their own lives
“Pure Land Foundation is thrilled to be involved with Fernando Gonzalez’
extraordinary yet effortless garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Gardens reconnect us with nature; nature reconnects us with spirituality
and helps us to remember who we are.
This organicform of landscape design is inspired by nature’s rhythm
and evokes theimage of the Chinese scholar rocks.
Our soothing garden is an urban oasis designed for contemplation and meditation.”
Bruno Wang
Founder, Pure Land Foundation
Garden concept
The garden is inspired by the dramatic topography of the Chinese landscape with its great mountains and river valleys as well as by its sophisticated concept of nature found in traditional gardens and scroll paintings where rocks and plantings were intended to evoke a wilderness scenery. Traditional Chinese gardens were places where art, nature and ideas were integrated perfectly to create a harmonious natural setting for serene contemplation and meditation. They became the focus of an alternative lifestyle that celebrated tranquility and a strong belief in a sense of unity between nature and human culture.
Using the latest available technology and materials, The Pure Land Foundation Garden is a contemporary interpretation of the flowing shapes found in these gardens and aims to evoke the sense of wellbeing and positive energy by reconnecting our spirituality with nature.
Garden Layout
The garden offers a new visual way of experiencing space by using free flowing lines and multiple viewpoints to create a pictorial space where colour, texture and spatial form blend rhythmically. We are presented with a scene of untamed beauty, a small wilderness that ebbs and flows like an ancient poem.
Key features
A white marble-like structure made of JesmoniteTM flows around the garden acting as both a boundary and providing integrated areas including a bench, a small table and containers for plants.
A planting colour palette influenced by the principal colours used in Buddhist art and ritual of warm yellows, oranges, red and blue emerge through a matrix of tussocky grasses. The plants are used in a painterly way with special consideration to their texture and movement– creating changing
shadow effects upon the gently sparkling white backdrop.
Plants
Koelreuteria paniculata
Chamaemelum nobile
Thymus spp. (various creeping vars.)
Armeria juniperiifolia ‘Rubrifolia’
Erigeron karvinskuianus
Geranium ‘Sanne’
Raoulia australis
Scleranthus uniflorus
Scleranthus uniflorus ‘Bronze’
Sedum‘Lemon Ball’
Sedum spathulifolium ‘Atropurpureum’
Acacia pravissima
Asphodeline lutea
Briza media ‘Limouzi’
Digitalis ‘Illumination Apricot’
Euphorbia cyparissias
Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fireglow’
Geum ‘Fire Storm’
Geum ‘Lady Stratheden’
Iris germanica ‘Kent Pride’
Iris sibirica
Macleaya microcarpa ‘Kelway’s Coral Plume’
Rubus Arcticus
For the Pure Land Foundation, Fernando created a garden space, framed by curvilinear, irregular boundaries, which integrate seating, planting containers and a small pool. A sense of wellbeing and positive energy within the garden is created through the use of these naturalistic forms.
Three unusual multi-stemmed 'Golden Rain' trees define the planting spaces through the garden and leave lovely silhouettes upon the shimmering white backdrop as does the naturalistic planting scheme using the primary colours in Buddhist art & ritual.
Fernando’s curvaceous designs were fabricated and clad with a white shimmering, lightweight marble-like finish, called Jesmonite® and manufactured using state of the art robotic CNC systems.
Pure Land in Buddhism is the realm of higher consciousness, peace and harmony. The Pure Land Foundation is not based in religion. We believe that art and music can establish a bridge between the individual and the harmony and higher order that exists in all forms of creation. The Pure Land
Foundation seeks, by supporting art, music and wellness, to establish an inter connectedness that will enable people to find a ‘Pure Land’ in their own lives
“Pure Land Foundation is thrilled to be involved with Fernando Gonzalez’
extraordinary yet effortless garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Gardens reconnect us with nature; nature reconnects us with spirituality
and helps us to remember who we are.
This organicform of landscape design is inspired by nature’s rhythm
and evokes theimage of the Chinese scholar rocks.
Our soothing garden is an urban oasis designed for contemplation and meditation.”
Bruno Wang
Founder, Pure Land Foundation
Garden concept
The garden is inspired by the dramatic topography of the Chinese landscape with its great mountains and river valleys as well as by its sophisticated concept of nature found in traditional gardens and scroll paintings where rocks and plantings were intended to evoke a wilderness scenery. Traditional Chinese gardens were places where art, nature and ideas were integrated perfectly to create a harmonious natural setting for serene contemplation and meditation. They became the focus of an alternative lifestyle that celebrated tranquility and a strong belief in a sense of unity between nature and human culture.
Using the latest available technology and materials, The Pure Land Foundation Garden is a contemporary interpretation of the flowing shapes found in these gardens and aims to evoke the sense of wellbeing and positive energy by reconnecting our spirituality with nature.
Garden Layout
The garden offers a new visual way of experiencing space by using free flowing lines and multiple viewpoints to create a pictorial space where colour, texture and spatial form blend rhythmically. We are presented with a scene of untamed beauty, a small wilderness that ebbs and flows like an ancient poem.
Key features
A white marble-like structure made of JesmoniteTM flows around the garden acting as both a boundary and providing integrated areas including a bench, a small table and containers for plants.
A planting colour palette influenced by the principal colours used in Buddhist art and ritual of warm yellows, oranges, red and blue emerge through a matrix of tussocky grasses. The plants are used in a painterly way with special consideration to their texture and movement– creating changing
shadow effects upon the gently sparkling white backdrop.
Plants
Koelreuteria paniculata
Chamaemelum nobile
Thymus spp. (various creeping vars.)
Armeria juniperiifolia ‘Rubrifolia’
Erigeron karvinskuianus
Geranium ‘Sanne’
Raoulia australis
Scleranthus uniflorus
Scleranthus uniflorus ‘Bronze’
Sedum‘Lemon Ball’
Sedum spathulifolium ‘Atropurpureum’
Acacia pravissima
Asphodeline lutea
Briza media ‘Limouzi’
Digitalis ‘Illumination Apricot’
Euphorbia cyparissias
Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fireglow’
Geum ‘Fire Storm’
Geum ‘Lady Stratheden’
Iris germanica ‘Kent Pride’
Iris sibirica
Macleaya microcarpa ‘Kelway’s Coral Plume’
Rubus Arcticus
