Pure Land in Buddhism is the realm of higher conscious-ness, 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 high-er 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 organic

form of landscape design is inspired by nature’s rhythm and evokes the image of the Chinese scholar rocks. Our soothing garden is an urban oasis

designed for contemplation and meditation.”

Bruno Wang Founder, Pure Land Foundation

FERNANDOGONZALEZ

Fernando Gonzalez is an award-winning garden designer with a reputation for creating truly bespoke spaces for private clients using innovative design and the latest fabrication methods. Named as one of the ‘50 Most Innovative Practices in the World’ by Digital Landscape Architects Now, his gardens are considered artworks in them-selves whilst pushing the boundaries of conventional design.

Fernando is delighted to be return-ing to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show after his medal winning Zen garden in 2013, described by The Guardian as ‘The Marmite moment’ of the 100th Anniversary show.

Garden designer

THE GOLDEN RAIN TREEThe Pure Land Foundation Garden contains three multi-stem Koelreuteria paniculata trees which create structural repetition, bring a sense of unity and provide year-round interest. The slender deciduous trees are native to East Asia, and the common name originates from the showy yellow clusters of summer flowers which fall to the ground like golden rain drops.

SUMMERCheerful and bright yellow flowers appear on long and elegant panicles. The flowers produce a yellow dye and are often used in ophthalmic medicine: used in medicines to treat conjunctivitis and epiphora.

AUTUMN & WINTERThe foliage blazes orange and yellow. Paper-thin lantern shape fruits appear first green-red before turning bronze-pink. The pods contain black seeds, used as beads in necklaces.

SPRINGPinnate leaves with serrated individual leaflets unfurl first with a peachy colour that turn true green as they mature. Leaves once mature can be used to create a black dye.

The trees selected for our garden were grown on the banks of the river Maas near village Cuijk in the Netherlands and are planted in memory of friend and former colleague Friso van Oranje.

working today with traditional materials is an anachronistic contradiction. it is as if a man from the twenty-first century were to walk around wearing medieval armour.

Gaetano Pesce

THE PURE LAND

FOUNDATION GARDEN

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 in-tegrated 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 interpreta-tion 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 concept

LEGEND1. White curvilinear structure2. Koelreuteria paniculata3. Integrated seating area4. Small side table5. Integrated plant & tree

containers6. Water bowl7. Silver sandstone linear

paving8. Chamaemelum nobile

Thymus spp. (various creeping vars.)

9. - Armeria juniperiifolia ‘Rubrifolia’ - Erigeron karvinskuianus - Geranium ‘Sanne’ - Raoulia australis - Scleranthus uniflorus

- Scleranthus uniflorus ‘Bronze’ - Sedum ‘Lemon Ball’ - Sedum spathulifolium ‘Atropurpureum’

10. - 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

KEY FEATURESA white marble-like structure made of JesmoniteTM flows around the garden acting as both a bound-ary and providing integrated areas including a bench, a small table and containers for plants.

A planting colour palette in-fluenced 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 spe-cial consideration to their texture and movement– creating changing shadow effects upon the gently sparkling white backdrop.

GARDEN LAYOUTThe 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.

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KING’S SPEARAsphodeline luteaClump-forming perennial with narrow, channelled leaves and fragrant bright starry yellow flowers.

BEARDED IRISIris germanica ‘Kent Pride’‘An ‘old-fashioned’ bearded iris in a rich marsala colour.

FOXGLOVE ILLUMINATION SERIES Digitalis ‘Illumination Apricot’Newly released sun-loving foxglove that is sterile and therefore reliably perennial with long lasting flowers.

AVENSGeum ‘Fire Storm’Repeat bloomer with large, vibrant orange, semi-double flowers.

PLUME POPPYMacleaya microcarpa ‘Kelway’s Coral Plume’Herbaceous perennial with large, rounded and lobed grey-green leaves and whitish undersides.

CYPRESS SPURGEEuphorbia cyparissasHardy spurge with petal-like bracts that are green-yellow in spring and red-purple in summer.

SPURGEEuphorbia griffithii ‘Fireglow’Stiff, dark green leaves edged orange-red, are topped with bright brick-red summer flowers that gently fade to yellow in autumn.

SIBERIAN FLAGIris sibiricaBlue sun loving Iris first collected in Siberia in the Middle Ages by monks, and grown in their monasteries.

QUAKING GRASSBriza media ‘Limouzi’Part of the group generally referred to as the quaking grasses because the flowers and seedheads shake and rattle on their stalks in the slightest breeze.

OVENS WATTLEAcacia pravissimaEvergreen shrub with fascinating triangular leaves- native to Australia it can grow into a small tree.

AVENSGeum ‘Lady Stratheden’Semi-double, vivid yellow flowers appear on arching stems during Summer above rosettes of hairy, scalloped, fresh green leaves.

ARCTIC BLACKBERRYRubus arcticusNewly released Rubus species with strong pink-violet flowers and intense fragrance.

Please note that some plants may not appear in the final garden due to growing conditions out of our control. For a full list of all plants featured in the Pure Land Foundation Garden, visit www.fernandogonzalez.co.uk/RHSChelsea2015

Employing state-of-the-art technologies, materials, and manufacturing processes– Fernando Gonzalez Garden Design brings endless possibilities to garden design that have never been possible before. The practice believes every garden should be completely unique: organic expressions attune with each person’s individuality and energy. Each garden retains functionality and a sense of refinement.

Fernando Gonzalez Garden Design has a passion for enhancing and exceeding a client’s dreams and aspirations.

THE ART &SCIENCE OF

THE POSSIBLEStepping away from symmetry

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

GARDEN DESIGN:Fernando Gonzalez, www.fernandogonzalez.co.uk

MAIN CONTRACTORS:The Garden Builders, www.gardenbuilders.co.uk2D:3D, www.2d3d.co.uk

MATERIALS:Jesmonite, www.jesmonite.co.ukStonemarket, www.stonemarket.co.ukKay-Metzeler, www.kay-metzeler.com

PRIMARY NURSERIES & PLANT EXPERTISE:Madrona Nursery, www.madrona.co.ukEbben Nursery, www.ebben.nlFull Frontal Gardens, www.fullfrontal.org.uk

NEW PLANT INTRODUCTIONS:Thompson & Morgan, www.thompson-morgan.comLubera, www.lubera.co.uk

ILLUSTRATIONS:Irene Laschi, www.behance.net/irenelaschi

PHOTOGRAPHY:Mark Vessey, www.pointandsnap.com

GRAPHIC DESIGN:Rilke Studio, www.rilke.com

PRINTERS:Kenway Printers, www.kenway.com

SPECIAL THANKS TO:Mubi, www.mubi.comThe CNC factory, www.thecncfactory.com

ADDITIONAL THANKS TO:Jackie EdwardsGillian GoodsonElizabeth Crompton-BattGraeme Watts, www.belmont-house.orgCyril Gonzalez, www.cyrilgonzalez.com

Fernando Gonzalez Garden Design would like to thank the Pure Land Foundation for its generous support in helping to make this garden a reality.

Pure Land Foundation is a private limited company and a charity pending registration in England and Wales.www.purelandfoundation.com | contact@purelandfoundation.com

Fernando Gonzalez Garden Design is a private limited company in England and Wales (9529160). Registered Office: 69 Shalimar Gardens, London W3 9JG+44 (0)20 3290 3888 | www.fernandogonzalez.co.uk | yes@fernandogonzalez.co.uk

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