Garden festival

Garden festival

A festival held to celebrate the arts of gardening and garden design. There are local garden festivals, regional garden festivals, national garden festivals and international garden festivals. The idea probably originated with Germany's Bundesgartenschau. The UK held five garden festivals in the period 1984-92 but blundered through not planning an after-use for the festival grounds during their design and planning phase.

To qualify as an International Exhibition, a show must be recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which was established by a diplomatic international Convention, signed in Paris,in 1928. Shows can also be recognised by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (IAPH). To qualify as a National Exhibition, a garden festival must be recognised by a national government.

Because garden design is becoming more popular and featuring on TV, there is an ever-growing number of garden festivals: permanent and temporary, official and non-official. One of the best known is International Garden Festival held on a permanent site at Chaumont in France. Despite the name, Chaumont does not come within the BIE definition of an 'international' festival. Other shows feature garden design but describe themselves as 'flower shows'. The best-known example in this category, the Chelsea Flower Show is seeing a shift of emphasis towards garden design and there is talk of a Chelsea Fringe Flower and Garden Festival in 2008.

References

Andrew C. Theokas "Grounds for Review: The Garden Festival in Urban Planning and Design" (Liverpool University Press, 2004 ISBN-10: 0853235392)

ee also

* Bundesgartenschau List of German State Garden Shows(Bundesgartenschau)
* National Garden Festival List of UK Garden Festivals

External links

* [http://www.aiph.org/ AIPH]
* [http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?p=214&m2=227 BIE]
* [http://www.chaumont-jardins.com/site/page/accueil/accueil.php Chaumont Garden Festival]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • garden festival —   in the UK, a large scale renovation of derelict inner city land by designating it for the planting of specially designed gardens. The improved image of the area would then assist the development of economic and residential projects in the area …   Geography glossary

  • Singapore Garden Festival — The Singapore Garden Festival (SGF) (zh sp|s=新加坡花园节|p=XīnJiāPō HuāYuán Jié) is an international garden and flower show event held once every two years in Singapore. It is jointly organised by the National Parks Board of Singapore, Agri Food and… …   Wikipedia

  • Ebbw Vale Garden Festival — The Ebbw Vale Garden Festival of Wales (National Garden Festival 1992) attracted over two million visitors to this small town in South Wales. What were the National Garden Festivals?The National Garden Festivals were a high profile 1980s… …   Wikipedia

  • National Garden Festival — An overhead view of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival site. The National Garden Festivals were part of the cultural regeneration of large areas of derelict land in Britain s industrial districts during the 1980s and early 1990s. Five were held in… …   Wikipedia

  • Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival — The Stoke on Trent National Garden Festival was the second of Britain s National Garden Festivals. It was held in the city from 1 May to 26 October 1986, and involved the reclamation of one half of the site of the Shelton Bar steelworks (1830… …   Wikipedia

  • Glasgow Garden Festival — The Glasgow Garden Festival was the third of the United Kingdom s five National Garden Festivals, and the only one to take place in Scotland. It was held in Glasgow between April and September 1988. The Festival site The festival site was on the… …   Wikipedia

  • Appletree Garden Festival — Das Appletree Garden Festival ist ein zweitägiges Open Air Festival, das jährlich in Diepholz (Niedersachsen) stattfindet. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Ausrichtung 2 Verein zur Förderung der Jugendkultur in Diepholz e.V. 3 Geschichte …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • International Garden Festival — The International Garden Festival was a garden festival held in Liverpool, England from 2 May 1984 to 14 October 1984. It was the first such event held in Britain, and became the model for several others held during the 1980s and early 1990s. The …   Wikipedia

  • Gateshead Garden Festival — The Gateshead Garden Festival was the fourth of the United Kingdom s five National Garden Festivals. Held between May and October 1990, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, it lasted 157 days, and received over three million visitors.cite web | title=The …   Wikipedia

  • Festival Park — may refer to:* Festival Park in the English city of Stoke on Trent, former site of a National Garden Festival. * Festival Park, Ebbw Vale, in Wales, an outdoor shopping centre on the former site of a National Garden Festival. * The Henry Maier… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”