Corten steel meets topiary
A garden in Rottach-Egern, ahead of its time in 2010: a Corten steel water table, 116 specimen yews, quartzite and one of the very first robotic lawn mowers.
| Location | Rottach-Egern |
| Size | Redesign 2010 |
| Design | Design: Fuchs baut Gärten · Site management: Barbara Stadelhuber |
| Implementation | Fuchs baut Gärten GmbH – Gärtner von Eden |
| Photography | Miquel Tres |
In 2010, Corten steel in a private garden was still a bold statement. In this garden in Rottach-Egern, it became the design theme: a Corten steel water table, a water feature of its own, plus walls and edges in warm, rust-coloured steel – set against its surroundings: topiary balls, clipped yew structures and soft perennial cushions.
The redesign followed our own design and was built from April to October 2010: walls in granite and coursed limestone rubble masonry, surfaces in Quarzit Hellas, a timber deck on a foundation of 133 metres of edging stones – and a planting with real substance: 116 large specimen yews forming the hedge structure, plus around 1,250 perennials and ground cover plants, whose sage and ornamental onion blues define the photographs.
Remarkable for 2010: even then, the garden had automatic irrigation and a robotic lawn mower – a smart garden before the term existed.
The photographs by Miquel Tres show the garden in its first years, shortly after completion. More on the topics: Walls and fences · Perennial planting.
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