BUGA Koblenz - Treasures of the Region Theme garden Romans and Limes

This abstract garden staging was on display in 2011 at the first Rhineland-Palatinate Federal Horticultural Show in Koblenz in the main moat of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. With 3.5 million visitors, the Koblenz garden show was the most successful of the last 20 years.
Since 2012, the BUGA garden is located in the IT Park Saarland in Saarbrücken.

In an abstracted form, the Limes is represented as an economically and culturally permeable demarcation line between the Imperium Romanum and Germania by a 2-meter-wide footpath. The strict grid on one side stands for order and discipline, representative of the tightly organized Roman state with its orthogonal city planning and the systematically advancing armies. The irregular shapes on the other side symbolize the impenetrable wilderness of the Germanic primeval forests and swamps with clearings in between.

Depending on the incidence of the sun, the cassettes, with their slopes facing the "enemy" and the threatening-looking formation of columnar trees of life, create a bizarre sawtooth-like ground relief, which loses its stringency and methodology on the opposite side of the Limes due to the diffuse shadows of the man-high grasses. Through this, the difference of the two social systems is also atmospherically expressed.

The staging belongs to the type of graphic gardens.