Biodiversity-focused garden planning with climate-resilient planting.
  1. Perennial planting with naturalistic dynamics and long seasonal interest.
  2. Detail view of a naturalistic, carefully designed garden space.
  3. Kitchen garden with greenhouse and functional bed layout.
  4. Flower meadow as a pollinator-friendly habitat with high biodiversity.
  5. Detail view of a naturalistic, carefully designed garden space.
  6. Kitchen garden with clear structure and productive planting.
  7. Perennial bed with seasonal bloom sequence and structural depth.
  8. Orchard meadow as a natural transition between garden and landscape.
  9. Flower meadow as a pollinator-friendly habitat with high biodiversity.

Potsdam DE – Modern villa garden

The original garden consisted of lawn, four columnar oaks and a monotonous ivy slope. From 2020 onward, Manuel Wehrle fundamentally transformed it - not only for visual quality, but to restore ecological value. Irrigation was switched off and extensive lawn areas were replaced by a flowering orchard meadow, now providing habitat for meadow birds. The southern slope was reworked as a Mediterranean planting scheme with year-round structure, designed to cope with heat and drought. The kitchen garden combines traditions of cottage gardens, English walled gardens and the Potager du Roi in Versailles. Espalier fruit trees serve both productive and spatial roles. The result is a modern Potsdam villa garden uniting tradition, innovation and sustainability.

Perennial planting with naturalistic dynamics and long seasonal interest.
  1. Design and implementation planning Manuel Wehrle
  2. Execution GPL – Ingo Kunde
  3. Images Vladyslav Pustovit