Workshop DESIGNING WITH PLANTS

Gain the knowledge to work on your own garden. I am always happy to pass on my expertise to help you make the most of your own garden space. Tickets are available at Eventbride

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Get your garden done before the end of this year and save money!

If you have been considering re-designing your garden, now would be the perfect time to do it!The VAT rate for renovating existing gardens has since 1 March 2013 been lowered from 21% to 6%. The Dutch State Secretary for Finance has decided today not to extend the reduced VAT after 31 december 2014. Only until […]

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Botaniq has a new office!

In November 2014 BOTANIQ will move into the historic building ‘Pastorie de Duif’ at the Prinsengracht 754 in Amsterdam. Until the renovation works are completed BOTANIQ is temporarily located close to the Vondelpark at the Kanaalstraat 82A in 1054 XL Amsterdam.  

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Terra Architectura – First German Edition!

Another huge project has been succesfully launched: The first german edition of Terra Architectura is now available at more than 500 kiosks in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Grab your copy now!

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Amsterdam Small Business Pop-up Boutique

Please visit Botaniq at the 020 Amsterdam Small Business Pop-up Boutique on Sunday 18th August 2013 from 11:00 – 18:00 The Amsterdam Small Business Network has gathered the lesser known, but hugely talented, small enterprises of Amsterdam and beyond together in one place, offering not only products but also services. So circle the date and play your part […]

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Botaniq goes social

Please visit us on facebook!

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Woonbeurs Amsterdam – Secret Garden by Bart Hoes

I was happily supporting Dutch Garden Architect Bart Hoes once more at the famous Dutch lifestyle and interior exhibition the Woonbeurs in Amsterdam. This year Bart has designed the ‘Secret Garden’, a huge green oasis where you can meet other people, sit down and relax for a moment. You enter the garden through an antique […]

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Northern Light Arctic Observatory Competition

I have had a busy summer which is why I have not updated my blog for the while. Exciting new opportunities came up. I’m now an editor for the Dutch Architecture Magazine Terra Architectura and am busy working on a German and English edition of the magazine. I have been to the International Specialist Nursery Days at […]

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London’s new fragrant garden

A new scented garden is enriching the air of Battersea Park in London. The Old English Garden, run by garden charity Thrive, is being supported by perfume house Jo Malone – the first of a series of horticulture projects it hopes to support around the world. British garden designer Sarah Price has designed the garden using scented […]

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London’s Chelsea Flower Show

One of the absolute highlights of my year is a visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. This year I was lucky enough to spend a day there with my good friend Ruth. The Flower Show always puts everyone in a happy mood, and this time, the glorious weather has made it even better!   […]

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Orla Kiely Garden Collection

Let’s go gardening with Orla Kiely! Her famous petal prints have extended into the garden with this gorgeous new range of home and garden accessories. I love the flower pots and garden tools and I definetly need this striped petal flask! Can’t wait to pop in to her Covent Garden store when I am visting London […]

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Work in progress: Ideas for a small patio garden

This small patio garden belongs to a stylish loft apartment in a historical building in the vibrant city center of Haarlem. The interior of the apartment is modern and contemporary, but not too overloaded, while the decoration is inspired on the classical Dutch ‘Delft Blue’. The owner was looking for a way to link the […]

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Happy Easter!

I am still dreaming about having my own farm with goats, cats, bees and of course chicken! I wouldn’t eat them, just for the eggs. I love the design of this egg shaped chicken house called ‘nogg‘ and it would even fit in a small garden. Happy easter!               […]

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Floriade 2012 – The Garden Lounge

This week opens the Floriade, the World Horticultural Exo in Venlo. The Floriade is a unique garden expo, organised once every 10 years in the Netherlands. I will visit the expo quite soon and will tell you more about the park and its show gardens in the near future. In the meantime, I would like […]

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A relaxing outdoor room

Today we love this relaxing outdoor room in New Zealand designed by Herbst Architects…        

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Tom Stuart Smith’s garden for Laurent Perrier

Let’s start with our favorite garden from 2010: The Laurent Perrier Garden at the RHS Chelsea flower show designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. A modern garden of subtle and varying textures: the centrepiece is an elegant, bronze Pavilion designed by award winning architect Jamie Fobert.  The Pavilion is a sophisticated sculpture constructed from folded sheets of […]

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‘Collezione Aqua’ by Paola Lenti

Thank you all for your great responses by email! This motivates to proceed blogging despite having a desk full of unfinished projects… Have a quick look at the outdoor collection ‘Acqua’ by Italian designer Paola Lenti:

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Patrick Blanc’s vertical garden for Crédit du Nord, Paris

Today we love the vertical garden for the head office of Crédit du Nord. You can find more of Patrick Blanc’s work here: http://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com

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Urban Farming in Berlin

‘Nomadisch Grün’ has launched ‘Prinzessinnengärten’ as a pilot project in summer 2009 at Moritzplatz in Berlin Kreuzberg, a site which has been wasteland for over half a century. Along with friends, fans, activists and neighbours, the group cleared away rubbish, installed transportable vegetable pots and reaped the first fruits of their new urban garden. Hope […]

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The Daily Telegraph Garden by Andy Sturgeon

Another great garden of last years RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Inspired by travel, this contemporary gravel garden brings together flavours of the Southern Cape, the maquis shrubland of the Mediterranean, the chaparral of California and Mexico and the matorral of central Chile. Corten steel screens slice through the design, fusing architectural and sculptural qualities to […]

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Vintage Spring

Spring is on it’s way! H&M; presents its spring collection 2011 with two thematic collections. We are loving the ‘Raw Nostalgia’ collection – pillow cases, tea towels and bed linens with a vegetal vintage look….

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London Garden by Tom Stuart Smith

This enclosed back garden uses tree ferns to create a dramatic year-round effect. The levels steps up gradually from a cast concrete terrace to a small sandpit and kids garden at the far end of the garden. The journey between the two is through a mass of delicate grasses and lumpy mounds of box. Photos […]

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8 – a container gardening kit

8 is a container gardening kit which takes a holistic approach to container gardening. 8 growers receive all the tools and resources–both modern and rustic–that they need to be successful gardeners. Along with gardening supplies, the kit contains an iPhone app, cookbook, dinner invitations, and a social networking site, and more. By shifting container gardening […]

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Dutch Pavillon for the International Horticultural Expo in Xi’an

We love the flower pavillon made of steel and bamboo from Archipelontwerpers for the International Horticultural Exposition 2011 in Xi’an The pavilion merges technological and organical design into one. The overall design refers to a most important part of sustainability, namely production processes. This design shows that one can create diversity within a typical production […]

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A touch of colour for the weekend!

After what seems a very long dark winter, spring is finally on it’s way and the first bulbs are coming through. Start your new garden season with a touch of colour and have a good weekend!!   1) Bistro chairs in different colours (Fermob) 2) Beautiful soft orange cone flower Echinacea ‘Harvest Moon’ from the  […]

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Chelsea Gardens 2011 – a sneak preview

With the opening of Chelsea now only weeks away we can’t wait to catch a glimpse at the first show gardens being build…. Garden designer Luciano Giubbilei uses massive evergreen yew hedges to create instant structure in the Laurent Perrier garden… while Cleve West achieves a similar effect with deciduous hornbeam hedges

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Resting in a bird’s nest

Dedon’s cozy ‘Nestrest‘ seems like the perfect place to spend lazy summer days. Along with a good book and a glass of Chardonnay…. just perfect! Have a relaxing weekend!

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WORK IN PROGRESS – Peggy’s adorable Kitchen Garden

The last weeks have been pretty maniac with the beginning of the new garden season. Seems everyone is busy with outdoor projects and gardening and I’ve got some really nice projects on my desk which feels great! Today I would like to introduce you to a current project, a kitchen garden with raised plant beds for […]

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Constructing Shade

I am just back from Switzerland where I had the honour working together with Tobler Landschaftsarchitekten in the lovely city of Haldenstein, where also Peter Zumthor’s office is located. I brought not only tons of swiss chocolate and Bircher müsli with me but also a very interesting book about constructing shade written by my former professor […]

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A garden restaurant in Kiew

We love the new Garden Restaurant ‘Cad’ in Kiew, designed by 4a Architects. Its stylish and exclusive atmosphere with floating levels, lightweight structures and clear materials invites visitors to relax and delight beneath the canopy of the old trees.

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Work in progress: Shade garden

RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London

I have just come back from this years RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London with my head full of inspiration, new ideas, bags full of plant lists and many many pictures on my camera. I will write in more detail about the gardens in the coming posts but first enjoy Studio botaniq’s top 3 gardens: No […]

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Work in progress: THE WINE LOVERS GARDEN

This week I have received the first construction site pictures from a modern mediterranean garden I have designed a year ago. The garden is located at the ‘Deutsche Weinstraße’, one of the oldest of Germany’s tourist wine routes. The area around the Wine Route is the warmest region in Germany, allowing the cultivation of crops […]

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1 year Studio botaniq

Work in progress: THE WINE LOVERS GARDEN part 2

A beach terrace in Malibu

We love the beach terrace of Friends actor Courteney Cox. The custom-made wooden banquett with lounge seats and a lava-rock fire pit is bordered by glass balustrades and overlooking the Pacific. Her Malibu retreat was designed by architect Michael Kovac and published in the June edition of the US Elle decor.

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Summer Containers

1. Origanum laevigatum ‘Hopleys’ This oregano has scented, edible leaves. It flowers in late summer. Height Up to 60cm.   2. Mentha requienii Tiny, mossy leaved creeping water mint with pungent aroma. Height About 1cm. 3. Cotula hispida Soft grey-green leaves and tiny button flowers hovering above. Height Up to 40cm. 4. Festuca glauca Glaucous, […]

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SWIMMING POOLS

At the moment it doesn’t feel like summer at all here in the Netherlands.  We have a lot of rain and the temperatures are far to cold for august.  I’m heading off to Mallorca for a few days and hopefully I can catch some sunshine there.  In the meantime please enjoy these beautiful pools to get the summer […]

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A Cardboard Pavilion for Shanghai

This digitally-designed cardboard pavilion has been exposed at the 3D paperArt exhibition in Shanghai. It is the work of the final project of the Master Advanced Study group at the Department of Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.   The pavilion features a design composed of variable truncated cones. While maintaining […]

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The Art of Clean Up

Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli is releasing a new book on The Art of Clean Up, where he takes everyday scenes of disorder and rearranges them into neat rows, sorted by different attributes such as color, size, shape, and type, etc. Some of the preview images from the book seem borderline OCD, such as the pine branch that has […]

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Paraty House, Brazil

                                        There is a legend which says that the region of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) has 365 islands, one for each day of the […]

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Woonbeurs Amsterdam

Last week I was supporting Dutch Garden- and Landscape Architect Bart Hoes Groene Architectuur at the Woonbeurs in Amsterdam. The exhibition was all about the home and living in Holland. Sadly we missed some beautiful sunny days, indeed the last days of summer. However the amount of interesting people we met there and the fun we […]

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A Roof Top Vegetable Garden in Amsterdam

Next week I will be meeting Florian, a successful photographer who lives together with his girlfriend in a two-floor apartment in Amsterdam’s city center. The couple has a roof terrace where Florian started his own kitchen garden. There he cultivates tomatoes, potatoes, corn, sprouts and other fruits and vegetables. I am really courious to meet him […]

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Seasons Greetings

Best trees for autumn colour

Best autumn tree for large gardens: Liquidambar styraciflua The sweet gum, from the mountains of eastern North America, is guaranteed to perform in autumn, the lobed leaves turning a beautiful crimson. Several cultivars are available; the old favourite is still ‘Worplesdon’, whose leaves turn deep purple then orange-yellow in autumn. Height (H) 10m, spread (S) 5m […]

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The House of Architect Pedro Useche

This is the home of the Venezuelan architect Pedro Useche as seen on yatzer. Located in Sao Paolo, Brasil, the residence can be described as a versatile safe heaven. Its location in the up-the-hill sophisticated Morumbi neighbourhood gives the house an opportunity to offer beautiful panoramas. The exterior landscape is very welcoming and very homely; plants from the local region and the […]

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Welcome!

Studio botaniq is a small garden design and landscape architecture office based in the Netherlands. We have created this blog so that we can share what we’re currently obsessing over…  Hope you like it ♥

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Snowdrops

A snowdrop plant looks a bit like three drops of milk hanging from a stem. This accounts for the Latin name Galanthus which means ‘milk flowers’. Galanthus is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous herbaceous plants in the Amaryllis family. Most flower in winter, but certain species flower in early spring and late […]

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Our thoughts are with Japan

Gardening

garden from tiger in a jar on Vimeo. We love this garden video. Beautiful atmospheric pictures…

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New corporate design for botaniq!

We have asked Aneta Posecka and Artur Sztein of graphic design studio ‘Asteen Design’ to create a corporate design for us and we are very happy with the results!! You can visit their website for more interesting and inspiring design here: www.asteendesign.com

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