Cocon exploratif

Enter this little cocoon and explore the space as it weaves its way through the plant beds. You’re invited to explore a tactile experience that tickles the fingers: the rough leaves of aromatic plants, the bark of shrubs, the softness of perennial flowers. Each touch reveals a new texture, a fragrance, sometimes a taste, and tells a story.

Around benches conducive to contemplation, flowers perfume the air, while the murmur of the fountain soothes the mind. At times, the path changes texture, offering colorful perspectives on this playful garden that encourages mobility, awakens the imagination and rekindles our childlike souls.

explore your connection to nature
explore your body
explore your senses
explore your child’s soul

This garden was designed by LUGA Asbl and financed by the J.P Pescatore Foundation.

Partner Fondation Pescatore

The Fondation J.-P. Pescatore, located in the heart of the city, is an institution that is more than a hundred years old and a pioneer in the field of retirement homes. It was created in the will of Jean-Pierre Pescatore, who paved the way for the construction of a charitable establishment on the territory of the City of Luxembourg.

Delphine Hardy (LUGA)

Delphine Hardy a suivi plusieurs formations dans le domaine du paysage en France, en Belgique et au Canada. Diplômée en 2013 d’un master en architecture du paysage de l’Université agronomique de Gembloux (Belgique), elle débute sa carrière au Luxembourg au sein d’un bureau spécialisé en architecture du paysage.

Passionnée par le développement de projets participatifs et citoyens, la revalorisation des friches urbaines et les enjeux écologiques, elle se forme et mène divers projets dans ces disciplines connexes, enrichissant ainsi son approche d’architecte paysagiste. En 2017, elle crée son propre atelier d’architecture du paysage. Elle rejoint en 2020 l’équipe de la LUGA, portée par l’ambition de relever de nouveaux défis.

Materials & vegetation

The garden is designed to blend harmoniously with the existing environment of the Pescatore Foundation.

Materials: Powder-coated steel, untreated steel, natural water-bound and permeable flooring, black locust and chestnut wood.

Plants: Acanthus hungaricus , Anemone hybrida (x) ‘Honorine Jobert’, Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Grandmother’s Garden’, Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Nivea’, Artemisia stelleriana ‘Boughton Silver’, Artemisia alba Canescens, Aster ageratoides ‘Ashvi’ – blc, Aster ‘JS Barts Blue Beauty’, Aubrieta Cascade Blue, Campanula glomerata ‘Alba’, Campanula glomerata ‘Superba’, Carex oshimensis Evergreen, Eryngium bourgatii ‘Lapis Blue’, Elymus magellanicus, Gaura lindheimeri ‘Snowbird’, Geranium Roxanne, Geranium cantabrigiense Biokovo, Geranium sanguineum Album, Hemerocallis ‘Gentle Shepherd’, Heuchera ‘Lemon Supreme’, Iris sibirica ‘Caesar’s Brother’, Lavandula angustifolia ‘artic snow’ G9, Lavandula angustifolia ‘Dwarf Blue’G9, Linaria purpurea “Springside White”, Monarda x hybrida Schneewittchen (BLc), Pennisetum alopecuroides Gelbstiel -, Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’ PBR, Rosemary, Salvia officinalis, Salvia nemorosa Lubecca, Salvia pratensis ‘Twilight Serenade’, Stachys byzantina Big Ears, Stipa tenuissima

Aromatics: Achillea millefolium ‘Schneetaler’, Chamaemelum nobile Ligulosum, Allium ramosum, Helichrysum italicum Korma, Levisticum officinale, Lavandula angustifolia Arctic Snow, Origanum vulgare, lemon thyme, CARUM carvi, Mentha x piperita, RUMEX arifolius, Melissa officinalis, lemon savoury

Bulbous: Camassia leichtlinii ‘Caerulea’, Camassia leichtlinii ‘Alba’ -bulbous, Narcissus triandrus Thalia group of 7 bulbs

Climbers: Lonicera Japonica ‘Chinensis’, Climbing rose ‘White New Dawn

Shrubs: Rosa Annapurna, Choisya ‘Aztec Pearl’, Choisya ‘Little Bee’, Hydrangea sargentiana ‘Goldrush’ white, Ligustrum vulgare ‘Atrovirens’, Lonicera nitida ‘Scoop’, Osmanthus x burkwoodii

Trees: Magnolia loebneri ‘Merril’, Syringa reticulata ‘City of Toronto