▷ Ła Marija Bujauskaitė celebrates: she was awarded a gold medal!

Ła Marija Bujauskaitė – we have already written about this talented landscape architect and her participation in the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2017. There she is involved in a garden office project reminiscent of the Baltic Sea. We have been crossing our fingers for Łas Marija for a long time and finally we have a result to be proud of: her project was evaluated in the young talent category at a prestigious exhibition gold medal!

THE IMPORTANT SELECTION PHASE HAS BEEN PASSED

The Royal Horticulture Society organizes several prestigious exhibitions in Great Britain every year, which dictate gardening trends around the world. Every year new talents are searched for and various prizes are awarded to them. At this year’s RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2017 young talents were tasked with creating a garden office project.

Now that working in concrete buildings is becoming more and more common, and as more and more time is spent in traffic jams, working from home is becoming more and more popular. Setting up an office in your backyard is a great way to counteract the dry air of high-rise buildings. Furthermore, you can work while observing the growing environment and breathing fresh air.

The garden office project was the first task of the young designers. After submitting their proposals, only three of them were selected to participate in the exhibition. They were given the opportunity to implement their project and create a demonstration stand for their project. However, only one of them received a gold medal for the garden office project. And without stopping the joy, it is nice to announce that the gold medal went to the Lithuanian Ła Marija Bujauskaitė.

INSPIRED BY CHILDHOOD IN LITHUANIA AND THE BALTIC COAST

Ła Marija Bujauskaitė was born in Lithuania, but later moved to Great Britain with her family. There he chose studies on the creation of the landscape environment, where he gained knowledge and experience. But the most interesting thing is that he used the context of the Lithuanian environment to create the garden office with which he won the gold medal.

When I spoke to Ła Marija before the exhibition, she said: “My garden concept needs to be adapted to the urban environment – it is a naturalistic garden set in the environment of a skyscraper. This garden idea is inspired by childhood memories of spending summers at the seaside. I want to “take” people out of the gloomy and gray atmosphere of the office, where everything buzzes, rushes, never stops, and transfer them to the Lithuanian sea (or at least the Baltic), where the pine trees rustle and the sand crunches underfoot” (full interview here).

In his garden office, the work space is surrounded by shade (necessary for working on the computer) and natural materials. And before your eyes, sand reminiscent of the Baltic dunes, splendid pine trees and grasses exposed to the sun open up.

A SUCCESS THAT ENCOURAGES

Ła Marija Bujauskaitė is a new name not only for Great Britain, but also for Lithuania. It’s great that creative Lithuanians can spread the word about the beautiful Lithuanian landscape to the world. As we live here, we see unmowed areas, designers can see in them the rich flora, colorful wildflowers and life that abounds there. Although many things grow uncontrollably, we can envy the southern countries, where there is a constant lack of water, and in autumn the greenery has almost disappeared due to the great heat and lack of humidity. We have wonderful nature, we just need talented landscape designers to reveal its beauty and uniqueness in the most famous exhibitions in the world.