SILScape
Landscape is not improvised:
it is cultivated, resolved, and sustained.
SILScape is the platform where plant growers, space designers, and builders come together.
It is not just a catalog by another name. It is the place where we pool what we know—and what we don’t yet know—so that each project turns out better than the last.
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What lies behind it
Behind SILScape are two companies that have spent decades addressing the same issue from different points in the supply chain. One produces the tree. The other handles everything required to ensure that tree arrives, gets planted, and remains alive twenty years later.
For a long time, each aspect was accounted for separately. SILScape exists because that division does not reflect reality: in construction, the layout and the material are decided simultaneously, and getting one right while getting the other wrong creates the same problem as failing at both.
Ornamental plants grown in containers, ranging from young plants to large-caliper specimens. Fifty hectares and a century of expertise lie behind every batch.
Three thousand product lines for production, planting, and maintenance—including containers, edging, textiles, and root-securing and root-control systems—selected by professionals who have used them in their own nurseries.
Plataforma
SILScape
Where the two meet
The place where the plant and the material cease to be two separate conversations and become one: that of the project to be resolved.
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Why now
Because the soil has become the central issue, and hardly anyone is treating it as such.
There are calls for more trees in places where there is no soil. Paving happens first, and decisions about where the roots will go come later. Small-caliper trees are planted in the belief that they are cheaper, yet after three summers, the project bears no resemblance to the original design. And now, on top of that, there are hillsides that have lost their ground cover and must be stabilized before the next rain.
These are distinct problems with a common root: soil can no longer be taken for granted. It must be created, stabilized, contained, or replaced—and neither the nursery nor the supplier alone can solve this anymore.
A well-chosen tree that is poorly planted is a lost tree. The same applies the other way around.
If you want to be part of this process, join our think tank.
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Our aim
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Open the debate on trees and soil
What function a tree performs in each environment, how much soil it truly needs, what happens when it lacks that soil, and what alternatives exist. Not based on opinion, but on data, diagrams, and projects where trees have already been planted for years.
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Building it together
An effective solution rarely occurs to just one person. It emerges from a landscape architect proposing something unconventional, a contractor pointing out that it won't work on-site, and a grower who knows what the species can withstand. SILScape exists to ensure those three voices align early on, rather than later.
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Return it as usable material.
Everything that comes out of here returns in the form of data sheets, assembly diagrams, species palettes, and reference lists—documents that are downloaded, incorporated into a project, and handed over to the installer. Not inspiration: working material.
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Continuously improve the solution
When a solution does not exist, it is sought out or developed in collaboration with the manufacturer. Once resolved, it is incorporated for the next person who needs it. Every challenging project leaves something behind.
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Who do we call?
This doesn't work like a website that publishes and readers who read. It works if the people who decide on the landscape contribute what they know.
We want to hear from
Landscape architects and architectural firms
- what is drawn but cannot be built, and why.
Contractors and landscaping companies
- what goes wrong on site and no one notes down.
Municipal administration and technical staff
- what a tender specification requires and the market does not yet provide.
Nursery operators and producers
- what can actually be grown, and how far in advance.
Interior designers and decorators
- the greenery where no ground cover had been planned.
Manufacturers
- to develop together what does not yet exist.
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The questions we started with
A manifesto that merely makes assertions is of little use. These are the open questions we want to work on publicly.
The prevailing answer comes from outdated manuals and contexts other than our own; it warrants a review based on local data.
The prevailing answer comes from outdated manuals and contexts other than our own; it warrants a review based on local data.
The prevailing answer comes from outdated manuals and contexts other than our own; it warrants a review based on local data.
The prevailing answer comes from outdated manuals and contexts other than our own; it warrants a review based on local data.
The prevailing answer comes from outdated manuals and contexts other than our own; it warrants a review based on local data.
The prevailing answer comes from outdated manuals and contexts other than our own; it warrants a review based on local data.
