Exhibiting at the Beijing International Horticultural Exposition 2019, West 8’s Master Garden ‘Garden of Time’, is a symbolic journey of life: disconnected from the surroundings, visitors will be led by a narrow elongated path walled by red bricks, which connects a sequence of three garden areas, to engage in an environmental immersion.

West 8’s Master Garden, ‘Garden of Time’ by Adriaan Geuze, is a symbolic journey of life: disconnected from the surroundings, visitors will be led by a narrow elongated path walled by red bricks, which connects a sequence of three garden areas, to engage in an environmental immersion. Starting with ‘Garden Of High Clouds’, where an array of shade is created by high pine trees and shade tolerant groundcover plants create a thick lush green carpet, where ferns and mosses dominate the palette. The ‘Garden of Short Youth’ is bursting with mixed uses of white and pink flowers across all seasons that provide a vibrant sensory experience. Here the focal point is a dripping pond built with volcanic rockeries in cubic shapes. Further along, visitors enter ‘Garden of Repose’ which expands on the idea that a wall, tree and seat can create a quiet and intimate place of harmony, celebrating the beauty and simplicity of the ending path.

Each of these three garden areas has its own unique atmosphere created by different usage of materials, vegetation, shadows and colors, united by enclosed walls made of fired clay bricks – a material commonly used in Northern China for more than 5.000 years. Each of these garden areas provides visitors a different perspective. The symbolic journey of life concludes with a moment of reflection.