| Landscape Architecture
| Landscape Architecture
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.…
This year 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, an act which secured access for everyone to open countryside whilst preserving and enhancing natural beauty; founded on the understanding that connection…
Lynn Kinnear who has died of cancer was one of the outstanding landscape architects of her generation. Her practice KLA was founded in 1991 and has been recognised throughout Europe as one of a small number in the UK pushing…
“The gnarled blackthorn bushes are covered in thousands upon thousands of white stars, their firework middles exploding in all directions. They won’t think of leafing for a while yet, and so there is only this dark and light, each flower…
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,…
Tuesday 13th February 5pm CL220. Free honey tasting. Watch bees in a windowed hive. Pollination and hive care explained. Members free. Non-members £2.
Accessible Gloucestershire will be auditing the streets of St Paul’s to assess and report on the quality of the pedestrian experience. They want to hear your views, so if you are a resident or a frequent visitor on your way…
In preparation for an introductory local walk for the Appraising Landscapes module, these two stunning images were offered as demonstrating a link between art and science or, in the case of landscape architecture, art and ecology. The first is a…