Radicepura Garden Festival 2027

Radicepura Garden Festival 2027 is now open for entries!

The sixth Radicepura Garden Festival, the first international event dedicated to Mediterranean garden design and landscape architecture announces an international competition for the selection of garden designers.

Short description

The sixth Radicepura Garden Festival announces an international garden design competition for the selection of garden designers. It is launched on an international scale as an open call for ideas.

Radicepura Garden Festival is the first international event dedicated to Mediterranean garden design and landscape architecture. It brings together leading landscape designers, artists, architects, emerging talents, researchers, institutions, and businesses. It has been promoting a call for young designers and great masters of the landscape since 2017.

The theme for 2027 is “Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Coexistence“.

It is a place for human and botanical coexistence, where the slow rhythm of growth teaches us patience and harmony. A garden that uplifts the spirit and inspires optimism, a place where life feels possible even after hardship. A garden that is both a sanctuary and a classroom, where humans and plants truly live in dialogue rather than humans simply shaping nature. A place based on coexistence, not control.

What we expect to see:

➜ Native plants, exotics and introduced hybrids coexist with wildlife habitats and gentle pathways for humans. The garden is designed to adapt naturally, letting plants guide human experience rather than the other way around.

➜ Long-lived trees, perennial flowers, and layered plantings that unfold day by day, teaching visitors patience. Seasonal changes are highlighted—fallen leaves, sprouting bulbs, flowering cycles—so growth is experienced, not rushed. Benches or terraces that allow visitors to watch life unfold at its own pace, connecting human presence to natural rhythms. And, of course, water features.

Eligibility

Participation is open to everyone with the skills to design and create a garden. This includes individual professionals or teams of emerging architects, landscape architects, agronomists, garden designers, botanists, nurserymen, urban planners, engineers, artists, and curators. The Festival encourages the formation of multidisciplinary teams. The selection is also open to companies, associations, cooperatives, schools, and universities. Applicants must be no older than 36 years old.

Prize

Eight winning projects will be realized by their teams and will be guided and supervised by the Radicepura staff. The total budget for the realization of each garden – strictly for construction costs – is €10,000.

At the conclusion of the 6th edition of the Radicepura Garden Festival, the garden best developed in the course of the six months of the event will be awarded the Gardenia Prize, a special recognition by the garden magazine.