Modern meets landscape – city garden in Pullach
A pool with feather grass and lavender beside a geometric house, curving borders stretching back to the edge of the woods – and a hemp palm set into the terrace.
| Location | Pullach |
| Size | 700 m² (completed 2020) |
| Design | Fuchs baut Gärten GmbH |
| Implementation | Fuchs baut Gärten GmbH – Gärtner von Eden |
| Photography | Philipp Nützel |
| Award | “Gärten des Jahres” 2023 (Callwey) – Longlist |
“On the terrace, you feel as if you're no longer in the city.”
A city garden in Pullach beside a modern, strictly geometric house – and the brief was exactly that contrast: “A leap between modernity and landscape, concrete and plants.” The plan's answer: near the house, straight lines echo the architecture; further back, the beds dissolve into curving forms until the garden reaches the edge of the woods.
Beside the house lies the pool – a prefabricated model – framed by a bed of feather grass and lavender: movement and scent right at the water's edge, without disturbing the clean line. A hemp palm is set into the terrace – it came later, so the foundation was opened up again and a bed with its own irrigation was created. That it survived its first winter outdoors is one of the stories we most like to tell about this garden.
The perennials follow a colour concept of purple, rosé and white – tidy by the terrace and in keeping with the architecture, deliberately more natural along the boundary so that insects feel at home too. And the old rhododendrons were not cleared but replanted: what has grown there for decades now continues to bloom in a new spot.
Our own trades, our own people
The raised timber beds and espalier fruit trees in the narrow strip behind the house come from our own joinery workshop – built by our timber team, not bought in. Add to that app-controlled irrigation and a robotic lawnmower: the garden is designed to need little everyday effort. The biggest challenge was a very practical one – moving large slabs measuring 1.20 by 0.50 metres across a plot that is hard to access.
“On the terrace, you feel as if you're no longer in the city” – that's how the Callwey competition entry describes it. You can read more about the construction types under prefabricated pool, and more about planting design under perennial planting.
Photos: Philipp Nützel · “Gärten des Jahres” 2023 (Callwey) – Longlist
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