| Landscape Architecture
| Landscape Architecture
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…
The SKIPINNISH OAK in Lochaber, Scotland has been named UK Tree of the Year after winning a public vote against 11 other contenders. The “impressive specimen,” which is hidden away in a Skita spruce plantation at Achnacarry, supports an island…
I recently saw a piece in a newspaper describing the Islamic gardens at the Aga Khan Centre in the new Kings Cross development, in London. Yesterday I visited both. I started at the main Visitor Centre where the new development…
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…
There’s a garden in Paris I’d not previously visited but always wanted to: Jardin Atlantique built above Montparnasse railway station. A couple of weeks ago I was in Paris for three days so I seized the opportunity. I was not…
Outside the Clegg Building, the Cornus kousa is looking amazing. Here’s a picture I took two days ago (21st May). The creamy ‘leaves’ are called bracts. A bract is neither a leaf nor a flower, but it’s often associated with…
Allium ursinum, wild garlic, is a very attractive plant with its cluster of white star-like flowers and lily-of-the-valley leaves. Also called ramsons, it is in full aroma for a couple of months each year. According to Richard Mabey the name…
Rowan Middleton (eco-poetry lecturer) is arranging a trip next week to Slad, former home of celebrated writer Laurie Lee. You are invited to walk with him through the Gloucestershire countryside to experience the historic village setting of Laurie Lee’s classic…
Bluebell season again. Hyacinthoides non-scripta opening up in woodland is one of our great wild-flower spectacles. For many it’s an annual pilgrimage to local bluebell woods. In the Chilterns the bluebells flower often as the beech trees come into leaf.…