Artemisia Landscape Design

Here are a few of the many trees, perennials, herbs and ornamental grasses we selected for the site:

CEU roof garden

Site description:
The roof garden at Central European University is a roomy, sunny space with abundant potential, but when we started work on it, it was heavy on the grays and missing plants and color.

What we did:
In a collaboration with some of the students as part of the university's Sustainable Campus Initiative, we added a "movable forest" of compact trees including a weeping elm, a pomegranate and several others.

One of the vines in the photo is a kiwi vine - many people don't know that those can thrive in the local climate! We added a lot of native perennials, herbs and ornamental grasses to enrich the existing planting beds, and planted trailing vines including honeysuckle and winter-blooming jasmine in the upper terrace area.

The students helped plant everything and also helped paint some of the existing structures a brilliant green and deep burgundy. With these minor interventions, the space has been transformed from empty and bleak to inviting and verdant.

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Before:

Here are a few of the initial sketches we made for the site, for students and faculty to discuss.

After: