Wild Harmony: Urban Gardens by Bart & Pieter

This photographic overview of the beautifully wild gardens by the Belgium-based ’green guerillas’ Bart Haverkamp and Pieter Croes will inspire gardeners everywhere to let nature take the lead.

Green is the new black according to Belgium-based garden architects Bart Haverkamp and Pieter Croes. It’s been more than 30 years now since they turned their love for nature into a business. During this time, they’ve completed countless and diverse garden projects, built up an enormous amount of experience and expanded their knowledge. Their method and philosophy evolved accordingly, resulting into their sought-after signature style. Their gardens - many of them on small plots, terraces or rooftops in the city - are anything but clean and fixed: rough outlines and plant selections are made beforehand, but they trust their intuition to make spontaneous decisions on the spot.

In this carefully curated and thoughtfully designed photo book, Bart and Pieter reflect on their work. Their aim is to share their vision and experience and to inspire all gardeners by showing how much is possible when you’re willing to let nature take its course. In this book, Bart and Pieter put their philosophy into words, as an introduction to 20 extensive and inspiring photo reports of their favorite or most important garden projects so far. The third part of the book holds short descriptions of these projects and useful advice on, for example, how to make your garden heat-resistant.

Bart Haverkamp and Pieter Croes have been creating lush green gardens for more 30 years and developed a sought-after signature style. They take on all kinds of projects but specialize in urban greenery, in the form of small-scale designs for gardens on roofs and in patios in the city. Their mission is to offer a counterbalance to the fast pace and the concrete of urban life by creating space for nature and bringing more biodiversity into our environment.