It’s an honour to have the planting for our Queen’s Drive garden featured in the July 2018 edition of Prolandscaper magazine – and a great opportunity to credit the client, landscaper and plant supplier for their roles in this very collaborative project!
From the drawing board
It’s been a busy start to 2018! This week will see a survey for a new project in Camden, a consultation on a Gipsy Hill garden, and a site visit to a garden being built in Crystal Palace. Meanwhile, plans for a courtyard garden in West Norwood are with the landscapers. If you’re thinking of having …
A New Orchard for Vale Street
London was once full of orchards – in gardens, parks and commercial spaces. Most have long since been built over or neglected, and the skills needed to tend fruit trees are largely lost. The Open Orchard Project is part of a movement to reverse this trend, working with communities to plant and care for fruit trees …
Replanting the Rookery
This article was published in the Autumn/Winter 2016 edition of London Landscapes. I was especially pleased that the editor, Susan Miles, chose some of my images to use alongside those by Joel Antunes.
Why make London the first National Park City?
Declaring London the first National Park City would send a strong message to Londoners, and to the rest of the world. Here’s why we should make it happen.
Tritton Vale Pocket Garden
Pocket gardens, pocket parks, urban greening and green space in general are all incredibly topical. As with so much else at present, it feels as though the pieces making up the future of our green spaces have been thrown up into the air, and that those pieces are still swirling. It’s not yet clear how …
Lighting and landscape
Lighting is about more than path lighting, cross-lit buildings, and uplights trained on trees. Here are 10 inspirational projects showing you lighting design and application in order to create engaging, imaginative designs with real impact. Photo: Torico Square by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Teruel, Spain
Designing for remembrance
Garden of Remembrance, Marburg, Germany, by scape Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany There is an open space in Marburg’s otherwise built-up city grid, a space that marks a significant absence. A synagogue designed by architect Wilhelm Spahr stood here from its completion in 1897 until its destruction on “Kristallnacht” — Nov. 9, 1938. From that point …
Narrative in design
In this article for Landscape Architecture Network, Can landscape architects use history to make a city stronger?, I explore the importance of a strong narrative – in this case the city’s history – in creating a new design to revitalise the city centre. Cities must adapt if they are to survive. Faced with a shrinking, aging population …
Kabel ties
Commissioning work from any creative professional is a fine balance between communicating your needs, and leaving room for the designer’s vision. I’ve just commissioned a logo, and couldn’t be happier with Sonja Cresswell‘s hand-drawn circlet of leaves, simultaneously delicate and strong. The font she chose to complement it is Kabel, an early sans serif German font from …