Alexis Antoine Christophe Perrocheau

From Global to the territorial - The Cromarty Firth garden -

These bioregions therefore form autonomous entities but which remain connected with the other spaces. They communicate, exchange and depend on each other.

This notion of the inter-scale of biosystems is also linked to gardens. A comparison between a bioregion and a garden would not be uninteresting.

The territorial garden is a particular scale, sit (a particular microcosm) which also contains other gardens (microcosm within a microcosm). This diversity of universes is a source of diversity like the life it tries to understand. 

The limits inside the territorial garden -From boundaries to corridors-

The modernist vision of the 20th century completely carved out spaces and encouraged the fragmentation of our landscapes. 

However, despite the many barriers that these engineering elements place on biodiversity and the elements, they remain essential corridors for human societies. Indeed, this dichotomy of state is essential to understand all of the boundaries and borders within the garden.

Boundaries are also corridors. These corridors are essential infrastructures for the flow of goods and services for the societies that use them. 

Water issues inside the territorial garden -Researching a new relation with water-

The geo-hydrographic analysis of the valley shows a paradox. Water is present there in abundance but the underground reserves are often dry because water has great difficulty in infiltrating due to the nature of the soil but also because of the embankment of rivers and the drainage of the land. 

Corridors Networks Composition -Blue/Green structures-

The idea of these corridors should correspond not to watertight and impermeable boundaries but rather to transitions between spaces. 

There is one word in ecology to describe these transitions: Ecotone. 

Ecotones are spaces where the dynamics of evolution are very important.  Indeed, these environments have in their breasts a combination of plants from two different environments which meet. 

This meeting promotes biological diversity and creates a place of exchange. They are porous hedges. 

Ecological ressources -Gardening the Ecotone-

Within the territorial garden, seeing farmers as gardeners have a precise sound. Indeed, the relationship of farmers to their land is different from others. 

Considering the territorial garden as a productive space, as a utilitarian place, is important for its good maintenance and for its acceptance in the peasant community.  

Underestimating the productive value of a territory is to forget the people who live in it.

The territorial garden - Cromarty Firth as an organism of Flux -

The Cromarty Firth territorial garden is designed to create a framework that makes it possible to support all the actions carried out by the actors of the territory. 

This balance between drawn structures and the activities that emerge in a landscape are adaptive, capable of changing and evolving

This Framework create a huge network to improve connections and surge inside the garden. These Fluxs support the emergence of Life.

Water has a special treat in this garden. Four different actions are carried out to promote the emergence of life and improve its quality :

- Renaturalisation of the Conon river,

- Change the profile of the Peffery river to support the effects of climate change

- Recreate a blue belt by recreating lochs around the valley (ex: Culbokie Loch)

- Create a new landscape framework for marshy areas in order to support agricultural activities and the development of biodiversity.