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During the time needed to create a children's dream, Brest youth hostel became international. 
In a room, around some big maps spread out on the tables, Roberta, Daisy, Jesus, Diane and Mathew are engrossed in a discussion. American, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Irish, French or Rumanian, they are aged from 9 to 12 and speak the same language. The language of the ideal garden. 
Out come the words flower, path, perfume, waterfall, insect. 

The fact of living in cities with populations between 130, 000 and 2 million doesn't stop them from being imaginative about landscape gardening: a rainbow valley, a garden of reflections and delights, a joyful hill or a sunset island. So many pretty names that they found for the corners of their dream.

Seeds of imagination that they hope soon to see start growing in their own cities. 


Article quoted from the magazine SILLAGE

 
 
The children, distributed into 9 groups, combined the best ideas from their colleagues, 
and improved them by adding new inventions, then tried to arrange them in a garden.

 
Tarente: the garden of knowledge

Our garden is situated on a plain. 
There are lots of fruit trees that use solar power (the sun cabin) and they reproduce by means of the wind (wind driven wheel).
You can learn (prehistoric garden)
You can enjoy yourself ( amusement garden).
You can make things (workshop zone).
You can try to find the right way (labyrinth).
Finally, water is present:
The waterfall garden and the tentacle island remind us of the sea near our home.
Our choice:
The sun cabin (Constanta), the prehistoric garden (Brest Penfeld), the workshop zone (Tarento), the labyrinth,
the wind garden (Kiel), the plains (Denver), the garden of knowledge and enjoyment (Tarento), the garden full of fruits (Tarento), tentacle island (Brest Kerbonne), the waterfall garden (Dun Laoghaire).
Denver: the garden of the World's children



 

We chose the secret garden because it could shelter plant and animal species in danger of becoming extinct.
The tropical garden, with its palm trees, its plants, its warm water and its birds.
Places to watch and listen to the birds,
The trampoline hills to jump over them and roll down them.
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Our choice:
Windmills (Plymouth), the secret garden (Dun Laoghaire), the lake of dreams (Cadiz), the garden of the sun and its pool (Tarento), the tropical garden ( ), the river, the stepping stone ford (Plymouth), the labyrinth, the play and pleasure zone (Kiel), trampoline hills (Brest Kerbonne).
Plymouth: the 11 islands of pleasure and calm


We chose these different elements so that the garden would be suitable for everyone's needs and wishes:
little calm corners, activity sectors (toboggan, waterfalls, tree houses etc.)

We also included elements for the senses:

smell (herbs and flowers),
sight (hide for bird watching), 
hearing (garden of singing insects),
taste (fruit and vegetable garden).
Water is a very important factor for us as English people because we live on an island, which explains the name of our garden.
Our choice:
Mountains (Denver), the blue waterfall garden (Constanza) ?, the island of strange plants (Brest Kerbonne), the bird watching hides (Brest et Plymouth), the gourmet's garden, the salt marshes (Cadiz), the vegetable garden where the insects sing (Saponé), the schoolchildren's pine wood (Cadix), the tree house.
Dun Laoghaire: the stream of delights
In Ireland, we are surrounded by water, and our country is rich in streams.
We chose different colours and textures for our garden.
We think that this garden could be very nice.
 
Our choice:
Paradise hill (Saponé), lake (Denver), the world of rocks (Dun Laoghaire), the blue waterfall garden (Constanza), the garden of 8 colours (Tarento), acacias (Cadiz), the snail stream (Brest Kerbonne), windmills (Plymouth).
Brest: the corner of happiness

 

The blue pathway is for dreams.
The red to go straight to gourmet treats.
The yellow for adventure.
Our choice:
Desert (Denver), the rainbow valley (Dun Laoghaire), the tree of dreams (Kiel), drago (Cadiz)
The sunset island (Brest) , the Labyrinth, olive tree (Tarento), the sacred forest (Saponé), the garden of delights (Brest), the Japanese garden (Constanza).
Cadix: the garden of friendship
Our choice:
The garden of knowledge and enjoyment (Tarento)
Forest
Wind driven wheels (Kiel)
The gourmets garden 
The snail stream (Brest)
Pelican island ( ?)
The compost heap (Plymouth)
The Andalusian garden (Cadiz)
Constanza:the garden surrounding the lake

 

The garden surrounding the lake is made up of forests that shelter squirrels and of hills with fruit trees. The houses are surrounded by trees and children's playgrounds.
Our choice:
The tree house (Plymouth), Aladdin's walk (Cadiz), forest, the apple orchard, children's entrance toboggan (Brest Kerbonne), water lilies, the hill for the elders and dancing trees (Saponé), the secret garden (Dun Laoghaire).
Kiel: the water and tree Garden
Our choice:
The vegetable labyrinth (Brest Kerbonne): you can hide.
The waterfall
The sunset island (Brest Penfeld): to admire the garden which is coloured with yellow and red hues.
Drago(Cadiz). This tree can be used to treat ill people.
Hercules and Gerion (Cadiz)
Lake
Football pitch (Tarento)
The white forest (Constanta). 
Lots of animals live there. 
It is a calm place to listen to the birds.
The wild fruit garden (Saponé)
The tree house: You can retreat there and be more alone or play there with some friends. Moreover, from the top of this tree house, you look over the whole garden.

 
Saponé
  The garden of useful plants
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