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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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