You will find them safer in this abandoned place where the last streets of your town and the industrial polygon converge. On this abandoned land expropriated for AAV or just around the way they blushed to install the telephony antenna. I'm talking about any town, including yours.

I've been to a place where they're filling up this week. A place that looks like a dead zone, a useless plot of land that has been abandoned by man, a place full of “weeds”. I’m talking about one of those places that Gilles Clément calls the third landscape. Pasmo-herb (Lysimachia arvensis), verbena (Verbena officinalis), malba (Malva sylvestris), asun (Urtica dioica), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), fox tail (Equisetum arvense), oregano (Origanum vulgare), Santio-herb (Perforatum), Hypericulum ceinata (Plantar niger) and Samlans major plant (Plantarlanza) were present. Enough raw materials to make the first collection and first ointments of the beginning of spring. A place to come back.

The French botanist and landscape architect published the Third Landscape Manifesto in 2024. It referred to the evolution of natural spaces not attended by humans, not reserves or natural parks, but those invisible and ununderstood land areas that are peripheral in our lives. He refers above all to plant people who have stopped living in a once strange state, including many medicinal plants.

Created by a greedy society that only looks at profit, the lugo is caused by real estate speculation and brutal development. As it destroys people and their ways of life, an anarchic vegetation is created in them. It’s often short-lived, but it’s a complete ecosystem, as plants born on the tracks left by a yellow Carterpillar excavator will be carried by the next yellow Komatsu excavator.

Among the traffic, noise, pollution and crazy speed of the city, there are the lugos that will green and flourish in the spring. These flowers are surrounded by butterflies, bees and many other insects, as well as birds. It's full of life.

This ecosystem has been created by man but as if unconsciously. He has no idea, that's for sure. It has a savagery that the beech forests of protected natural areas do not have. Almost without a chance, as if he had decided to explode lives in the most ungrateful place. Showing who has the ability to blossom under the most petty and deficient conditions. Knowing that in a very short period of time they can make a concrete block on this site, of those with a ventilated façade, or an unbeatable and brighter place of coworking or a parking space.

In the end, there is a lot of space in us. Let's focus on the inside, though. It was born as this short-lived vegetation in force and has left us with the memory of its short existence inside, under the parking lot.