Robust wood structure for riparian plants and insects
The willows and flowers in the plateau garden are valuable to insects (host plants), but there is also a Tower of Babel. Designed and created by Underbug, this 3D printed clay palace offers everything an insect wants: shelter, water and food security.
The driving base of this garden consists of Amsterdam Canal Wood. There are slits between the kesps so that roots can hang in the water. Several different fiber cloths were applied to this, such as an elastic knitted nettle fabric (Netl), a hybrid non-woven coconut cloth with lightly woven jute thread (from Aalsburg), and a hand-woven piece of cattail fabric (Wicker). It is the heron's favorite fishing spot.
Soil has been applied to this plateau and a clay border made of bentonite grains has been made on the outside to prevent leaching. In between, riparian plants and home-grown willow shoots were planted, and insect-friendly flower seeds were sown. In the lee of the riparian plants, there is space for seeds (e.g. in waterfowl droppings) to germinate.
