This year, the International Garden Festival at the Jardin de Metis in Quebec features 21 commissioned gardens including some pretty awe-inspiring, how-did -they-think-of-that, contemporary designs.
Here are some of my favorites:
Dymaxion Sleep is a structure of nets suspended over a field of aroma-tific! plants. Rather than typically walking through the garden, visitors are encouraged to lie on top of it. The structure that holds the nets is formed of twenty steel triangles with each triangle large enough to support an engaged outstretched body. You can see the plants: mints, lemon geranium, lavender and fennel planted below. I’ve got my spot staked out over the lavender…zzzzzzz. 
Bascule: In this unconventional plot visitors are invited to swing on an over-sized swing set which triggers the rotation of cylinders perched eighteen feet above. This action disperses corn seeds. By embarking on the swing, visitors become active participants. Sitting on the perch gives a different perspective of the garden and surrounding landscape. There is also a trench that cuts through the site allowing visitors to peek beneath the earth’s surface and experience the root systems of the seeds they have sown. 
Fractal Garden is a grouping of 21 low planters on wheels, which can be rolled and arranged into infinite patterns. The set consists of seven planters each of three different diamond-shaped planters containing three different plantings. The Fractal Garden evokes the optics, movement, repetition and rhythm present in nature.
There are just sooo many gorgeous exhibits – one more intriguing than the next. Check them out here and let me know your favorite.
http://www.refordgardens.com/english/festival/edition.php
You’ll know where to find me – feel free to wake me from my minty dreams.
much love,
sheri
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