{"id":6311,"date":"2025-11-13T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:35:43","slug":"prof-hitchmoughs-inspiring-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/2025\/11\/13\/prof-hitchmoughs-inspiring-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof HITCHMOUGH’S INSPIRING TALK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

James Hitchmough, Professor Emeritus of Sheffield University, last night gave this year’s John Simpson Memorial Lecture entitled “Three Projects: opportunities and paradoxes in contemporary planting design”<\/strong>. The large audience was treated to a stimulating yet thought-provoking presentation of the design goals, problems and joyful vision of three recent work schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Knepp wilding garden<\/strong>, his own home garden<\/strong> and the Melbourne Arts precinct<\/strong> were deliberately chosen to celebrate the richness, complexity and diversity of planting and landscape experience, integrating long-term ecological management into their design philosophy. They reveal key paradoxes: while interest in ecological diversity grows amid climate and biodiversity crises, landscape architecture often lacks the vegetation (gardening?) expertise to deliver this, and public resources for long-term care are shrinking. Rewilding, in this context, is not hands-off but about collaborating with natural processes to guide positive change within acceptable ecological limits – but ‘do no harm’. The projects show how gardens can be biodiverse, dynamic and self-sustaining while simultaneously rethinking beauty and human roles in ecological systems. Continuous change, both spatial and temporal, and flower abundance underpin the vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture was recorded and is available at https:\/\/estream.glos.ac.uk\/View.aspx?id=114379~69~j3EXzmpuxNaQ&code=Fs~zMGff7cs77uLk3bjgaX9NPx4BCTTO0JiRczuvpBdCmb3TlQfvDjRVSjVVmS0UvkRnTOE9DG2&ax=8n~lGzTCHqYT7U3amHV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somerset home garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Knepp garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Melbourne Arts precinct<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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