IN BRIEF
What Urban courtyard garden.
Where Antwerp, Belgium.
Size 60 square metres.
Soil Clay.
Climate Temperate maritime climate, with cool, humid summers and mild, rainy winters.
Hardiness zone USDA 8.
Enter through a bright-red door on an Antwerp street corner, and you pass through a passageway before encountering an enclosed courtyard garden that is an unexpected riot of cascading wisteria, climbing roses, tall cypresses and irises, with water tinkling in the background. “Some visitors say it's like the South of France, while one journalist described it as 'Little Italy,'” says its creator, Antoine Vandewoude. It could equally be said that the bonsai, ferns and acers give the
