Wild Harmony: Urban Gardens by Bart & Pieter - Softcover

Haverkamp, Bart; Croes, Pieter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9460583814 ISBN 13: 9789460583810

Publisher: Luster Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

• This photographic overview of the beautifully wild gardens by the Belgium-based ‘green guerillas’ Bart & Pieter 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 favourite 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. 

About this title

About the Author

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 specialise 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.

From the Back Cover

The gardens of Pieter Croes and Bart Haverkamp are intuitive and organic, just like their career. They rolled into garden design intuitively about thirty years ago, navigating an organic career path. By focussing on sustainability and trusting their ideas, that were spontaneously inspired by the environment and circumstances, Bart and Pieter have cultivated a recognisable and much sought-after style. To some their work may feel rebellious; to them it comes naturally. More than anything else, they like to create green oases in the city, with various plants, flowing lines, and natural materials. Letting nature take its course, untamed, thanks to well-thought-through choices and drawing on three decades of experience. For this book, they curated a selection of garden designs that they realised in recent years ― inspiring examples of wild harmony, Bart and Pieter’s trademark style.

Their mission is to counterbalance the fast pace and concrete of city life by creating space for nature and bringing more biodiversity to our environment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Luster Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9460583814
• ISBN 13: 9789460583810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224