An overhead view of a long narrow garden with a path of dark concrete slabs and gravel bands running down the middle, beds of grasses, shrubs and flowering perennials either side edged with low logs, two pale timber loungers, a climber covered boundary on one side and a dark timber fence on the other.

A Tapestry of Urban Greenery

Groningen

A Tapestry of Urban Greenery is the name Stefano Marinaz gave a long narrow rear garden in Groningen, roughly 20 by 6 metres, a renovation of a plot that before was paved edge to edge.

Three multistem amelanchiers anchor a planting of grasses and perennials with a small wildlife pond in the garden's first third, and the central play space sits wrapped in the planting rather than fenced off from it. The garden was made for a private client, Marianne, whose own hand the designer credits in his caption for guiding the planting to maturity. The photograph is Alister Thorpe's.

Stefano Marinaz

Stefano Marinaz is an Italian chartered landscape architect and agronomist whose practice, Stefano Marinaz Landscape Architecture, works from London and Utrecht across Britain, Italy and the Netherlands, on sustainable and biodiverse gardens.

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@stefano.marinaz. Photography @alistergthorpe.

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Researched August 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.