| Landscape Architecture
| Landscape Architecture
Submit a design solution – be it a space, product, or system – which not only minimises the impact on natural resources but proactively restores, improves, and renews the health and well-being of the planet. Below are the details of…
Landscape architecture is a design-based profession founded on an understanding of the landscape; that understanding derives from landscape aesthetics and environmental sciences, specifically geology, soils, hydrology, botany, climatology and ecology. The session last Tuesday focused on SOILS, how they are…
Charlea Community Gardens Community Interest Company (Charlea) owns a c.3 acre site in Brimscombe Stroud consisting of two fields. One of the two fields (The Play Area field) has recently been acquired from a developer following three refused planning applications. That…
Our students entered this year’s RHS Tatton’s Long Borders competition with the brief requiring they ‘Make a Statement’ in the design of small spaces. Congratulations to these medal winners. Photos and details below. The four designs were sponsored by the…
Six years ago we based the Landscape & Community module in the inner-city Gloucester suburb of Tredworth. We’d been invited to come up with some ideas to improve the visible landscape which was then looking sad and neglected after years…
According to the Tatton website, the Long Borders competition is an opportunity for designers and gardeners of any experience to showcase their talent on the big stage but by focussing on smaller spaces. This year they have been given the…
Progress report: We have just finished the first day of the build of the long borders for this year’s Tatton Park show. It’s a visual record of the work undertaken by our team. Link to list of all exhibitors below.…
The rain held off and we were treated to a friendly, informative visit hosted by Ian and his team who showed us around the stock areas and various operations of the main site, including the more extensive tree nursery a…
But there’s lots of kinds of bees that aren’t honey bees and Harry and Lorraine from Harry’s Bees told us all about them. There are more than 20,000 species of bees in the world and, unlike the iconic ‘social’ honeybee,…