IN BRIEF
Name Luisenpark.
What Redesigned planting for beds and borders at the entrance of a large public park.
Where Mannheim, Germany.
Size 1,700 square metres of planting within a 103-acre park.
Soil Heavy clay soil, improved with light mineral substrate in places.
Climate Continental.
Hardiness zone USDA 7.
Harald Sauer is the most interesting plantsperson you probably haven’t heard of. A master gardener, he leads the team at Ebertpark in Ludwigshafen, southwest Germany – a public park he has put on the horticultural map with his creative and daring, habitat-based planting designs, including his interesting solutions to the thorny question of maintenance. They range from borders where ground elder is purposely left to mingle prettily with tough perennials, to unusual, eye-popping displays of annuals and tender plants – bedding, yes, but not as you know
