Cristoph
Thanks for the pix. I am amazed that an archie would design something like this by moving loads of dirt. For the most part its very subtle and quite unusual in this way. The only aspects which stick out are the holes with what looks like dune walls on the edges (I assume these block out nasty views?) and the odd clumps of grass which really act to accentuate the mounding. Is it hoped that someday that grass will spread? If so, are the fairways wide enough for such penal rough? If not, why has the archie chosen to accentuate the areas which stand out as man made?
Ciao
Sean,
I will try to explain:
The architect chose to plant more than 100.000 pieces of beach grass (Ammophila arenaria) in order to quickly stabilize the newly designed manmade dunes. These dunes are purely made up of sand without any organic substances. This way the deep-growing beach grass roots by rhizomes will protect the sparse habitat from erosion and will then be fed with mineral substances from the dune sand. As an additional effect weight of foliage will develop during growth though increasing the organic weight in the sand.
This way the Festuca grass will slowly migrate into these areas and mix up with the beach grass. The Dunes will then mingle with the rough and as time passes by these areas will then not stick out as much as they do now.
So the architect started a natural succession of dune formation even accelerated by plantation. Additionally 7.500 pieces of gorse (Ulex europaeus), 5.000 pieces of lyme grass(Leymus arenarius) and 1.250 pieces of burnet roses (Rosa pimpinellifolia) were planted. Also smaller surfaces amounting to 1,7ha were transplanted into larger surfaces of heather vegetation.
I think this all explains well the current situation at Budersand and gives an idea about the amount of work involved in order to change this piece
of land into a rather nice golf course.