Pamelas Garden

“Pamelas,” a garden proposed for the 27th International Garden Festival at Jardins de Métis, on the theme “Mapping the Sensitive.”

The context

Each year, the International Garden Festival invites teams to design temporary gardens at Jardins de Métis. The 2026 edition's theme was “Mapping the Sensitive.” In October 2025, Scaliance Studio submitted the application of a team of three landscape architects: Anne Aubin (Botart), Camille Zaroubi and Youssef El Saai (Scaliance).

The concept

Pamelas is about what is fading away: biodiversity. Three exclosures made of aluminum bars painted a zoo green, close to the one used in Sépaq parks, rise above mounded, flowering beds. Both protective and confining, they open a dialogue between care and control. Around them, maintained beds encircle wild fallow patches, as if living things now survived only at the margins.

The plants

Two palettes respond to each other. The “Pamela” palette is flowering: Canada columbine, butterfly milkweed, bee balm, cosmos, fireweed. The “wild” palette draws on the forest and the bog: paper birch, tamarack, sweet fern, royal fern, Labrador tea.

Our work

Scaliance Studio co-designed the garden, coordinated the submission and produced the 3D renderings of the garden in summer, fall and winter, as well as the elevation of the exclosures.

Through the seasons

The first competition renderings showed the garden in fall and winter, with an elevation of the exclosures. Under the snow, the structures keep their silhouette and continue to hold the garden together.

At a glance

• Competition, 27th International Garden Festival
• Three aluminum exclosures, flowering beds and fallow patches
• 3D renderings in three seasons and elevation