From the practical to the aesthetic, the benefits of having a yacht garden are bountiful.
When it comes to designing your own, he recommends steering away from small flowerpots in favor of doing something incredible—bringing the jungle to you. “Imagine you’re standing on your yacht in the Arctic, looking at an iceberg. It’s beautiful, but it’s cold and uncomfortable,” Massmann suggests. “So you go inside into your own Mediterranean garden with olive trees, lemon trees and the sweet aroma of fresh lavender. Two climates meet in a never-seen-before symbiosis.
Green thumb or no, none of this is easy. Gardens can demand their own maintenance systems and additional crew training. Bannenberg & Rowell recentlysuch an installation. “It required extensive research into hydroponics to understand what would be required to supply the yacht with a self-supporting food chain,” says Dickie Bannenberg, the firm’s founder and director.
“The scale of a yacht is a principal determining factor for the feasibility of a living garden,” Bannenberg adds. “Even then, there are maintenance and durability issues to consider.” For instance, many countries will force boats from abroad to dump both plants and the soil they’re grown in to avoid the spread of foreign pests or agricultural diseases, which is a further barrier to widespread uptake.
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