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| Landscape Architecture
A patch of my rewilded garden has some ragwort plants on which I noticed today some cinnabar moth caterpillars feeding. The bold yellow and black stripes are a survival strategy. Cinnabar moth caterpillars use aposematic coloration, which is nature’s way…
Shepherd’s Bush Green – Tuesday, 1 Jul 2025 09:30 – 17:00 In this unique learning opportunity, Kevin leads a tour, on foot and by public transport, of eight SuDS projects that demonstrate a range of SuDS techniques in a variety…
This month (April) and next are ideal times to look at wild nature. Yesterday driving back from Stroud farmers market I saw amazing drifts of wild garlic along the road verges. I stopped and took a picture. Later I visited…
March 31st this year is given as a four-star bore. The Severn Bore is one of Britain’s few truly spectacular natural phenomena. It is a large surge wave that can be seen in the estuary of the River Severn, where…
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…
Some winter exercise after all the cold depressing days to date this semester was very welcome. The first year Appraising Landscapes class set off yesterday under a pleasant blue sky and walked along the Cotswold long-distance footpath from Seven Springs…
It is important that we remember this date as it was when one of our former students Piers Simon was a fatality resulting from the wave that devastated the island of Phi-Phi Don in Thailand on Boxing Day 2004.
Eleanor Rawling gave this year’s John Simpson Memorial lecture last Tuesday. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a local poet, born in Gloucester, was gassed in the first world war and suffered long afterwards spending much time in mental asylums. Despite this he never lost…
Robert Bray Associates will be running some masterclasses in Bristol in November, of particular interest to students (discounted prices): we are offering 60% discount up to 10 tickets for each masterclass. Please use the code – save60 – when booking.…