Essence, ça pousse ! SA-PAYSAGE : Sophie ALEXINSKY, Sylvain MORIN, Emmanuelle BLANC, Agnès DAHAN and Karim BEDDIAR France Version française

This garden questions the relationship between fossil fuels and bio-fuels (of plant origin). Featured are several plants that can be transformed to fuel, also chosen for their colour (sunflower, flax, beets), for their striking allure (castor-oil plant, E-grass miscanthus), or their universal impact (wheat).
In the centre, an immense mobile counteres a petrol drum with its plant equivalent. Try out this balancing game and help lift the plant bed while the oil barrel sinks.
For 176 grams of petrol, it takes almost a square metre of wheat: this fuel pollutes the least, but requires the greatest land surface area.
How can we find a durable harmony between development and environment?  Through balance and measure, we may certainly find an adequate answer to our questions of energy resources.

Garden's plants Achillea millefolium Centaurea montana Cortaderia selloana Daucus carota Deschampsia caespitosa Echinops ritro Geranium pratense Helianthus annuus Lamium album Lamium purpurea Leucanthemum vulgare Linum perenne Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrinus' Ricinus communis 'Carmencita' Silene maritima Triticum

Garden created with the support of Lucien Petit, Loiseleur, Plas Eco, of the Lycée horticole de Blois and '"En vertu des possibles" David Chambolle BET structures.

Garden's website : http://s.morin.paysage.free.fr or http://sa-paysage.com/