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The next stage of my Greenroof training continued

The next stage of my Greenroof training continued last Friday!....

Without stating the blooming obvious, as designers, we need to know, what we specify, will actually work in reality.

I personal don't want to be another designer, who designs greenroof, that look lovely and green, but don't really work when in situ. ( errr, the Marble Arch Mound springs to mind)

To achieve this, and to keep my own BS in check, getting up on the roofs and physically installing different systems will be vital.

Thanks again Chris Bridgeman for your excellent training !!!

#design #designer #designers #greenroofs #Marble #arch #mound

Here is a closer look at one of the inhabitants of

Here is a closer look at one of the inhabitants of the standing dead willow tree.

@juderice @bennyhawksbee , identification?

…..Well, this is what I saw !!! Standing deadwo

…..Well, this is what I saw !!!

Standing deadwood being colonised by solitary bees.

Is really doesn’t pay to be too tidy. We need to re-evaluate our definition of beauty.

I advised the client to leave the tree standing after the tree had died. It doesn’t take long for wildlife to colonise, we just need to move away from the religion of tidy gardens and give nature a chance.

What do you see? #gardendeisgner #cambridgegarden

What do you see?

#gardendeisgner #cambridgegardendesigner #cambridgegardendesigner #cambridge

A really interesting observation. video one- com

A really interesting observation.

video one- common Teasel
Dipsacus fullonum

Video two- Dipsacus sativus ( Indian Teasels

Video 3,4,5- a hybrid of the two.

I will be saving the seeds from this hydrid and will be using them in future commissions.

The hybrid has the white inflorescence of the D.sativus and the height ( these are now 4m high) though the coloured stem from D. fullonum.

#teasels #cambridgegardendesign #biodiversity #biodiversegarden #gardens #cambridgegarden #cambridgegardens #cambridgegardendesigner

@claireloderheads @juderice

So to follow on from my posts yesterday, where I l

So to follow on from my posts yesterday, where I looked at roundabouts and then at grass verges, I also feel we are missing a trick here with central reservations.

With some simple retrofitting, we could transform this from #greytogreen.

Again, this is not one man’s opinion , there are many real life, fully functioning examples of this type of retrofitting, we could take the lead from the very successful Grey to Green project undertaken in Sheffield.

#rewilding #meadow #cambridgemeadows #meadows #gardendesign #cambridgegardendesign #suds #cambridgegardenedesigner #publicrelm #publicgreenspace

Oh yeah, guess what, it is being done !!! This

Oh yeah, guess what, it is being done !!!

This is a grass verge is just down the road from the roundabout in my last post.

A 30 cm mowing strip around the perimeter gives this new wild-aesthetic a “tidy” edge.

@camcitco

#rewilding #meadow #cambridgemeadows #meadows #gardendesign #cambridgegardendesign #cambridgegardenedesigner #publicrelm #publicgreenspace

Lowest common denominator. I was walking in Newn

Lowest common denominator.

I was walking in Newnham last night and thought we could do so much better with our roundabouts.

There’s such an opportunity here to create a much greater visual impact and an obvious opportunity to increase biodiversity into a public space. !!

To steal a quote from a recent Nigel Dunnett post, we can do this, we can easily transition from poorly designed shrub planting , and amenity grassland to low maintenance , Biodiverse (meadow ) planting.

#rewilding #meadow #cambridgemeadows #meadows #gardendesign #cambridgegardendesign #cambridgegardenedesigner #publicrelm #publicgreenspace

Last week I visited The planting commission undert

Last week I visited The planting commission undertaken at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge for the first time since planting.

On balance, I am a really pleased with the outcome.

The planting has endured a lot. It was planted pre-Covid and has had to deal with drought, lots of rabbit damage and sporadic/intermittent Maintenance from the Garden department. They have unfortunately been on furlough off and on over the last year and a half.

#cambridgegardens #universitygardens #plantingdesign #furloughedgardener #gardenmaintenance

I am pleased to announce that myself and the wonde

I am pleased to announce that myself and the wonderful @joe.mcwill will be collaborating on creating a meadow in Landbeach, Cambridge.⠀
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It's a beautiful setting, and it's really pleasing that the Landbeach Parish Council are giving over a such a sizeable area of amenity grassland area to wildlife. ⠀
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The meadow area sits adjacent to a small area of woodland. which also contains a pond/ephemeral wetland which will form the next part of this interesting, long term project.

You may have seen my post earlier this week with r

You may have seen my post earlier this week with regards to the campaign to save Swansombe Marshes from unnecessary development ⠀
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Last Sunday, I visited Swansombe Marshes and I saw first hand, why this site is of such ecological importance and why we need all need to support the SSSI designation.⠀
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In this video you will see two pyramidal orchids ( Anacamptis pyramidalis), outside of the video lens was another hundred, if not thousands more orchids within the chalk grassland⠀
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@Swanscombe_marshes

You may have seen my post earlier this week with r

You may have seen my post earlier this week with regards to the campaign to save the fragile, open mosaic #brownfield habitat of Swansombe marshes from unnecessary development ⠀
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https://buff.ly/3k2gNDd ⠀
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Last Sunday, I visited Swansombe Marshes and I saw first hand, why this site is of such ecological importance and why we need all need to support the SSSI designation.

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