We are landscape gardeners and designers based in North London but work on landscaping projects across the whole of North and East London. Previous projects we have built gardens for have been in Muswell Hill, Finchley, Alexandra Palace, Stoke Newington, Hackney, Wanstead, Islington, Enfield, Bar...
New report from the Royal Horticultural Society highlights the challenges and opportunities of gardening in a changing climate The quintessentially British lush, green lawn could become a thing of the past; gardeners in the north could enjoy a longer growing season and plant pests and diseases not ...
Even if instrumentally oriented to increase tourism, it was indeed the first public policy that stressed the need to support the many elderly ‘olive gardeners’ (AISS, Regione Puglia, 2019) living in the area because of their role as landscape caretakers. Nevertheless, the strategy for the ...
For gardeners, this emergence provided a sense of achievement as they witnessed the fruits of their labour (Milligan et al., 2004; Pitt, 2014), and for some a reminder of loved ones who have passed away (Heck and Tsai, 2022). Gardens have been described as an ‘oasis’ of colour in ...
will grow into cities. This is, let us not forget, both the way most of the worlds cities began and also the way they have grown. The third advantage of using gardens as laboratories for city design is that gardeners always and instinctively deal with ecological, hydrological, recycling and...
This was done in order to consider the potential impact of individual gardening habits and enthusiasm on city-wide food production, irrespective of broader changes in land-use or crop yield beyond the immediate control of individual gardeners. Calculations focus on total available land rather than a...
In taking the photos I did a certain amount of randomly wandering around gardens, looking for pretty pictures. But in the end I tried to select for images that showed gardens as intentionally-created arrangements of collections of plants. Although native gardeners often aim to recreate slices of...
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In the 18th Century, most English "landscape gardeners," such as Lancelot "Capability" Brown, who remodeled the grounds ofBlenheimPalace, rejected the geometric emphasis of the French in favor of imitating the forms of nature. One important exception was Sir Humphrey Repton. He reintroduced formal...
How to convince your own colleagues—professional landscape architects, urban planners, or city gardeners—to be more open in using alternative, biodiverse, rich lawns-meadows or groundcovers instead of conventional lawns that need constant mow...