Le jardin alpino-japonais Les Roches Fleuries, un proto-manifeste in situ du mouvement de réforme belge Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque ?

The Alpine-Japanese garden of Les Roches Fleuries, located in Genval in the Walloon Brabant region, is one of the most astonishing Belgian works of landscape architecture of the first half of the 20th century. Created between 1910 and 1932 by the geologist, palaeontologist and botanist Ernest Van den Broeck (1851-1932), a leading figure in the natural sciences at the time, it remains largely unknown today. Apart from a few articles from the period and a study published in a local historical journal, this garden, which was a botanical and artistic reference in Belgium and beyond until the 1930s... Mehr ...