PATHS OF LEAST RESISTANCE
IN BRIEF
What Private garden fusing formal and naturalistic elements.
Where Madrid, Spain.
Size 2,400 square metres.
Soil Poor clay replaced with free-draining loam.
Climate Dry, Mediterranean.
Hardiness zone USDA 9.
There was a curious beginning to this garden,” says Spanish designer Álvaro Sampedro. “The client called me one summer and said, ‘Álvaro, have you ever made a garden for dogs?’” As garden briefs go, this is a somewhat irregular request, but one that became ingeniously integral to the resulting design.
Álvaro rose to the challenge: “I brought the dogs to the client’s empty plot and watched as
