Feb 13, 2007 14:29
17 yrs ago
French term
France
jardinage interstitiel
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Tourism & Travel
For some reason, the term "pavement gardening/planting" comes to mind. Suggestions welcome!
Context: Les interstices occupent les mini-délaissés urbains (de quelque m² à quelques cm²) et s’immiscent grâce aux micro-implantations florales ; implantations taillées directement dans le trottoir, sur le modèle de la végétation spontanée des fissures mais dans une réflexion globale sur le fonctionnement de l’espace urbain.
Context: Les interstices occupent les mini-délaissés urbains (de quelque m² à quelques cm²) et s’immiscent grâce aux micro-implantations florales ; implantations taillées directement dans le trottoir, sur le modèle de la végétation spontanée des fissures mais dans une réflexion globale sur le fonctionnement de l’espace urbain.
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pavement gardening
This is being encouraged in the cities in the Netherlands- it originally started with people illegally lifting a few paving stones outside the houses and planting a few plants in the summer
See this website
http://www.archipelbuurt.nl/Paper April 2004.htm
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There are a few images around of pavement gardens
http://www.naturalvisions.co.uk/cgi-bin/nvsite/nv.pl?advsear...
http://www.technologyforthepoor.com/UrbanAgriculture/Garden....
See this website
http://www.archipelbuurt.nl/Paper April 2004.htm
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There are a few images around of pavement gardens
http://www.naturalvisions.co.uk/cgi-bin/nvsite/nv.pl?advsear...
http://www.technologyforthepoor.com/UrbanAgriculture/Garden....
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you. I went for this which is a little less pompous than interstitial! Let's call a spade a spade!"
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gardening in the gaps
Just an idea!
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Carol Gullidge
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interstitial gardening
the act of creating an interstitial garden...
Interstitial garden, Smithsonian, DC. Garden, Washington DC, June 2002. « this :: that ». the main page | archives | apparatus | contact | RSS.
www.eudaemonist.com/snap/2 - 2k - Cached - Similar pages
ALN No. 42: Istanbul: pictures of interstitial gardensImage of an 'interstitial garden' of corn in an urban front yard in Istanbul. Part of the article 'Urban Agriculture in Istanbul,' published in Arid Lands ...
ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln42/kald2.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages
francesco de grandi artista sito ufficialeI’m in a secret place, an interstitial garden inhabited by millenary beings. A private pantheon. Second-class gods and demons, official deities of a smaller ...
www.francescodegrandi.it/html/text.htm - 8k -
Interstitial garden, Smithsonian, DC. Garden, Washington DC, June 2002. « this :: that ». the main page | archives | apparatus | contact | RSS.
www.eudaemonist.com/snap/2 - 2k - Cached - Similar pages
ALN No. 42: Istanbul: pictures of interstitial gardensImage of an 'interstitial garden' of corn in an urban front yard in Istanbul. Part of the article 'Urban Agriculture in Istanbul,' published in Arid Lands ...
ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln42/kald2.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages
francesco de grandi artista sito ufficialeI’m in a secret place, an interstitial garden inhabited by millenary beings. A private pantheon. Second-class gods and demons, official deities of a smaller ...
www.francescodegrandi.it/html/text.htm - 8k -
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Cetacea
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thanks, Cetacia!
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Miranda Joubioux (X)
: I would opt for this, having recently translated several landscape articles that show this is very much a trend.
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Thanks, Miranda! It's always good to have an expert opinion!
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
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thanks, Ingeborg!
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Gina W
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thanks, gad!
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plants growing wild..ish
I don't know if there is a "real" English term for this but it sounds to me like they are talking about letting plants go a bit wild, overlapping boundaries, growing cracks, etc. as opposed to the classic type of well-ordered gardening with no weeds and so on. Perhaps a 'new wave' of gardening, less psycho-rigid, fewer pesticides, more organic... my you I could be completely wrong!
http://algo.inria.fr/AofA/Research/Tatihou/Album-photos/envi...
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I'm having a bad spelling day to day!
http://algo.inria.fr/AofA/Research/Tatihou/Album-photos/envi...
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I'm having a bad spelling day to day!
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Gabrielle Bannard
: I agree that they mention plants growing between the cracks, however the paragraph states that this "jardinage interstitiel" is based on the model of wild/spontaneous plants growing in cracks. Confirms intent rather than spontaneity.
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indeed, nurture rather than containment
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Sheila Wilson
: From what gather, the plants may look as though they arrived by accident, but they are kept very firmly in order (hence 'taillées')
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Dylan Edwards
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street gardening
Another option, in the general context of "greening the streets" with "mini-gardens" on pavements, at roundabouts and in any available space.
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Sheila Wilson
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gardening between the paving stones
In south London we always called them flagstones but that may be too specific - I haven't researched the actual meaning of the word but I think maybe they're always large, so paving stones may be better if they're smaller ones
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